Since launching in 2019, the Bar World 100 has become an annual snapshot of the bar industry’s most influential figures. The ranking is created by polling a 100-strong panel of bar industry commentators, consultants, brand representatives, event organisers and bar trainers, diverse in nationality, geography, culture, and gender.
There are no strict criteria for voting but figures on the list are those who have innovated and pushed the industry forward, setting the standard globally and inspiring others around them and those who have addressed injustices in the bar industry, using their influence to effect positive change.
Available here to read, this annual, bar-focused magazine unpicks the global trends that underpin the list. The GBE editor, Hamish Smith introduces this year’s magazine. In this 13th edition of Drinks International – dedicated to the global bar industry – we’ve tried to identify embryonic trends. ‘Farmtending’ is one such recent movement and as Nicholas Coldicott writes, bar farms have sprung up…
To read the official guide to The World’s 50 Best Bars, read the Drinks International Global Bar Edition. Opened two years ago, bringing modernist, technique-driven cocktails to Barcelona, Sips is owned by Ex-El Bulli man Marc Alvarez and Simone Caporale, who is now the only bartender to have won The World’s 50 Best Bars five times, following wins at Artesian from 2012-2015. It…
Sips, which recently launched bar-within-the-bar concept Esencia, also picked up the Best International bar award, beating out competition from London’s A Bar With Shapes for a Name, Montreal’s Atwater Cocktail Club, and Cartagena’s Alquímico which collected the Best International Bar Team award. Best New International Cocktail Bar went to Line, the new Athens bar from The Clumsies founders Vasilis Kyritsis and Nikos Bakoulis alongside mixer…
Like dark matter, influence is everywhere, you just can’t see it. Yet, as ethereal as it may be, we all have an idea about who holds it, who inspires us most, whose ideas and actions change the conversation and push the industry forward. Bar World 100 in association with Perrier collects those opinions – a global dot-to-dot of influence across city lines…
It’s the fourth year running that Berg – the co-owner of Tayēr + Elementary in London – has been voted by Drinks International’s global panel of industry commentators as the bar world’s most influential. In second place this year is Indie Bartender Danil Nevsky, while in third is ‘farm-tender’ Jean Trinh of Alquímico in Colombia, who rises from 19th last year. Another South…
