Top Cocktail Bars Recognised by Pinnacle Guide in Extended Rankings

From edgy to casual, rustic to old worlds, Pinnacle Guide has revealed a new class of cocktail bars as the best in the world.

Pinnacle Guide, Recognition System Global Bar SceneWe expanded our reach and invited applicants from France, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy and Switzerland. Additionally, the already qualified countries are the UK, the US, Mexico, Dubai, Spain, Singapore and Australia.

“It’s not an exhausting list,” Hannah Sherman Cox, one of the founders of the Three Pinnacle Guides, told Fox Business. “That’s the kind of point of this guide. It just evolves and grows. It’s never finished.”

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Sharman-Cox is a food and beverage industry expert with 25 years of experience.

This guide includes a rigorous application process and a series of direct anonymous reviews that end in a layered ranking system, delivering one, two or three pins each to a great, outstanding cocktail bar.

This year we have concluded the third round of the formal process with fresh Parisian honors. Italy And North America. The cultural powerhouse was highlighted as the global epicenter of the acclaimed bar culture.

“What was really good Paris The Paris bar community is actually really small,” Sherman Cox said. “The truth is, they’re all friends. It’s a very close-knit kind of community.”

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Bar 1802, Little Red Door and Cambridge Public House, all clearly unique Paris spaces, recognized as “excellent” and pulled two pins.

Bar 1802, located inside the 4-star Montecristo hotel, creates a cocktail repertoire for six months at a time.

According to the site, the small red door sauce is produced directly from France and features a “glass from the farm” model.

Cambridge Public House offers a relaxing atmosphere with liquids Cocktails menu It serves traditional French pub dishes such as meat pies and sausage rolls.

A bold menu of drinks endemic to Paris’ candelaria, agave, and a trendy neighbourhood hotspot Le Mary Celeste received one pin each.

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Six newly certified people who are not covered in Italian citrus and herb aromas Cocktail barLocated in Pegani, the Izacaya Gate in Bologna, including 50 Italian spirits, Milan, Mobius, Dry Milan, Backdoor 43, Celesio 7.

“I just came back from Italy and handed me some of the plaques,” Sherman Cox said.

They are tucked into a room the size of a small walk-in closet equipped by a single mixologist. The Backdoor 43 is touted as the “world’s smallest cocktail bar” at just 13 square feet.

Dry Milan is a trendy experience offering a pizza restaurant in the back and a late night bar in front, and is located in the heart of the fashion capital world.

The restaurant offers food discounts to “skinny” customers who can squeeze the bar

“That’s great,” Sherman Cox said of Dry Milan.

The old seven-storey war office building overlooks the royal guards near Buckingham Palace and is the most pinned building in the world.

The former meeting hall for spies and military personnel is decorated with three lounges that have become luxury hotels.

“It’s a beautiful building that’s ingrained in British history,” Sherman Cox told Fox Business. “There’s a liquor bar on the first floor. It’s very traditional.”

The Kioku Sake Bar, a new certified addition with 28 seats, deserved two pins for this round.

“There’s a spiber underground,” Sherman Cox said. “There’s no phone, there’s no camera, there’s no secret knock, but you need to know where you’re trying to find it.”

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Raffles’ spibers collected two pins last year at OWO Speakeasy, which was found in a room once used by MI5.

“There’s half of the Aston Martin on the wall,” she added. “I don’t even want to think about it how they put it there.”

Located on the first floor of OWO, Raffles guard bar and lounge features 8 liquid tasting menus Mini drink It already boasts one pin.

As for general concepts, Japanese culture won, as four newly pinned bars cited heritage as inspiration.

“We have one in London, but one in Bologna, Italy,” Sherman Cox said of the Japanese lifestyle bar. “I think Japanese culture is cool, No. 1. Everyone wants to go to Japan.”

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Sharman-Cox and co-founders Dan Dove and Siobhan Payne have already shut down the next phase of their applications, including Canada.

In 2026, Pinnacle Guide will once again expand and include global reach India and South Africa.

Among the newly pinned bars in North America is the Washington DC service bar. Sexy fish from Miami, Florida. Tiger Bar in Nashville. Shinji and Time bar in New York City.

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Complete list of newly pinned 2025 bars:

Two pinbars

• Bar 1802, Paris, France
• Mexico, Mexico City, Kite Delvare
• Kioku Sake Bar, London, UK
• Little Red Door, Paris, France
• Bar in front of a bar in Athens, Greece
• Cambridge Public House in Paris, France

1 Pin Bar

• Asterbar in Sydney, Australia
• Baba au Ram, Athens, Greece
• Backdoor 43, Milan, Italy
• Candelaria, Paris, France
• Cat Bite Clubs in Singapore
• Celesio 7, Milan, Italy
• 50-Italian Spirit, Pagani, Italy
• Copper spoon, US Four Wayne
• Dr. Zhivago Bar, Zurich, Switzerland
• Dry Milan, Milan, Italy
• Equal parts, London, UK
• Mexico, Mexico City, Hanky ​​Panky
• Le Mary Celeste, Paris, France
• Manhattan, Singapore
• Mobius, Milan, Italy
• Bologna, Ikegami kaku, Italy
• Washington, DC, US Service Bar
• Sexy Fish, Miami, USA
• Shinji, New York, USA
• Bars below, London, UK
• Diplomat, Hong Kong
• K-bar in London, UK
• Milk thistle, Bristol, UK
• Time Bar, New York, USA
• Tiger Bar in Nashville, USA