The Drinks International list is out once again.
700 bar professionals from 50 countries came up with the list. I’d love to know if they submitted blind or voted for an already collated list. There are 5 bars from aussie on the list, so a fantastically well done 1806, Der Raum, Black Pearl in Melbourne and Zeta and the Ivy in Sydney. Top 50 lists are always dicey, there are some favourites of mine not on there, but there are more than a few I’d love to go and visit.
Who did they miss in Australia or anywhere else in the world for that matter?
TOP 50 BARS
Milk & Honey, London
PDT, NY
Harry’s Bar, Venice
Milk & Honey, New York
Buddha Bar, Paris
Pegu Club, NY
Death & Co, NY
Employees Only, NY
Harry’s New York Bar, Paris
Academy, London
The Connaught, London
Der Raum, Melbourne, Australia
Black Pearl, Melbourne, Ausstralia
Coco Bongo, Cancun, Mexico
Q’Ba, New Delhi, India
Matterhorn, Wellington, NZ
Sky Bar Unique Hotel, Brazil
Zeta Bar Sydney Hilton, Australia
Enigma Marriott Hotel, Mumbai, India
Schumann’s American Bar, Munich, Germany
The Lonsdale, London
Four Seasons, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bubba’s Bar, Barbados
F Bar, New Delhi, India
Bramble, Edinburgh
Dry Martini Bar, Barcelona
Cafe Caprice, Cape Town, SA
Buddha Bar, Dubai
Skyview Bar, Dubai
Planet Bar, Cape Town, SA
Blue Frog, Mumbai, India
City Space, Moscow, Russia
Standard Bar, LA
1806, Melbourne, Australia
Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen, Denmark
Barasti Bar, Dubai
Bert’s Bar, Barbados
Sling In, Helsinki, Finland
Buddha Bar, Kiev, Ukraine
Hemmingway Bar, Paris, France
Bar do Copa, Rio, Bazil
Le Lion, Hamburg, Germany
Buddha Bar London
Star Bar, Tokyo
Mangos, Florida
Quo Vadis, London
Bòeme, Rome, Italy
Nottingham Forest, Milan
Salotto 42 Rome
The Ivy, Sydney
Everyday Drinking 
Not one bar from Portland or Seattle!? Clearly the judges have never been to the West Coast of the US.
It seems like the judges haven’t been a few places around the world.