The bar Handshake Speakeasy from Mexico has been chosen the best in the world, according to the international ranking World’s 50 Best Bars 2024in an edition that was held in Madrid for the first time.
For its part, andl Sips from Barcelona, which last year was proclaimed the best in the world, has placed third in 2024, and first in Europe.
World’s 50 Best Bars 2024 is an international ranking of bars prepared annually by more than 650 experts from all over the world which has been published since 2009 and has become the most anticipated classification for those who are part of this sector. Within the top 50 positions on this list there are three Spanish cocktail bars: Sips, Paradiso and Salmon Guru.
This is the classification in 2024:
1. Handshake Speakeasy
2. Bar Leone
3. Yeps
4. Tayer + Elementary
5. Jigger & Pony
6.Line
7. Three Monkeys
8. Alchemical
9. Zest.
10. Paradise.
11. Himkok
12. Bkk Social Club
13. Connaught Bar
14. Double Chicken Please
15. Overstory
16. Lady Bee
17. Baba au Rum
18. COA
19. The Cambridge Public House
20. Tlecan
21. Caretaker’s Cottage
22. Cochinchina.
23. Salmon Guru
24. Martiny’s
25. Bar Benfiddich
26. Maybe Sammy
27. Supergood (Special award for best opening)
28. Nutmeg & Clove
29. Satan’s Whiskers
30. Panda and Sons
31. Tantan
32. Limantour Liquor Store
33. Drink Kong
34. Jewels of the South
35. Byrdi
36. Locale Firenze
37. 3Scarfes Bar
38. Moebius Milano
39. Bar Nouveau
40. Mimi Kakushi (Special Award for Best Bar in the Middle East and Africa)
41. Bar Us
42. Virtù
43. Atlas
44. Laura’s Room
45. Roda Hüset
46. 4Atlantic Florist (Special Rémy Martin Legend Award)
47. Analogue Initiative
48. The Haughty Rooster
49. Dinaco
50. 1930
The best bar in the world, Mexican
Handshake Speakeasy is a prestigious cocktail bar located on Calle Antwerp, in the neighborhood of Colonia Juárez, Mexico City. Last year it ranked third in the ranking.
As described on their website, “the drinks list is minimalist, but since the main bartender Eric Van Beek uses advanced culinary techniques in preparation. Each drink is more complex than it seems, often taking 48 hours to make from start to finish, and often featuring unexpected textures.” Also, “there is a laboratory on site with lab director Yiyi Aparicio at the helm, hidden in the heart of the bar, where the team experiments daily.”
On the website of the best cocktail bar in the world in 2024 they recommend ordering “the Fig MartiniVan Beek’s first creation for the bar” or try “a popular drink from the current menu, Salt N Pepper, a drink of fresh mezcal and spicy with strawberries and green peppers.
Barcelona sips, best in the world in 2023
Last year the Sips cocktail bar in Barcelona It was chosen as the best bar in the world. You could say that the opening of Sips in June 2021 was the union of two titans of mixology; on the one hand Marc Álvarez, who has developed a large part of his professional career behind the bars El Barri Adrià and Mixing Master of Schweppes, and on the other hand Simone Caporale, who managed to catapult Artesian Bar, in London, as the best bar in the world for four consecutive years.
And the Paradiso bar, the best in 2022
and two years ago the Paradiso bar, also in Barcelona, It was chosen as the best in the world in these awards, considered the Oscars of international cocktails.
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