Uno Jang has been crowned the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender as part of The World’s 50 Best Bars awards for 2025.

The organisation behind The World’s 50 Best Bars 2025, sponsored by Perrier, has announced that this year’s live ceremony will take place in Hong Kong on 8 October.

“To get on the 50 Best List is really hard, and to get an individual award is pretty mind blowing,” said Panda & Sons’ Iain McPherson on being named Altos Bartenders’ Bartender as part of The World’s 50 Best Bars 2024.

Seoul’s Dohyung ‘Demie’ Kim, co-founder of Zest, No.5 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2023 and No.18 on The World’s 50 Best Bars 2023, has been named the winner of the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award 2024.

The World’s 50 Best Bars ceremony, sponsored by Perrier, will be held in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, 22 October 2024.

Jean Trinh, founder of Alquímico in Cartagena, Colombia, has been named the winner of Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award 2022.

Keith Motsi, head bartender at Charles H in Four Seasons Seoul, has won the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award 2022.

Lynnette Marrero, the co-founder of Speed Rack and bar manager of Llama Inn, New York, has been named the winner of the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award 2021 at The World’s 50 Best Bars.