

(CNN) — Transfer over London. Step apart New York. There is a new cosmopolitan cocktail capital: Barcelona is house to Paradiso, the newly topped world’s greatest bar.
For the primary time because the World’s 50 Greatest Bars checklist was created in 2009, a bar exterior of New York or London earned the No. 1 spot on the checklist.
Paradiso, from house owners Giacomo Giannotti and Margarita Sader, is a Mediterranean-style speakeasy, entered by means of the freezer door of a pastrami bar in Barcelona’s fashionable El Born district. The bar moved up from No. 3 in 2021.
“It is a massive honor to win and an enormous accountability. We are going to work exhausting to stay as much as being the most effective and follow our ideas. Our cocktails attempt to push creativity,” Giannotti instructed 50 Greatest on Tuesday night.
“Nevertheless it comes right down to exhausting work. The extra you’re employed, the extra you uncover and the extra artistic you will be. We are going to have a good time after which return to the bar to do what we do.”
The 50 Greatest winners had been introduced Tuesday night in Barcelona, the primary time the ceremony has been held exterior of London.
The colourful metropolis in Catalonia is house to a few of the highest 10 bars on the 2022 checklist. Sips was the “highest climber” this yr, leaping from the No. 37 spot in 2021 to No. 3 this yr. Two Schmucks got here in at No. 7.

Three bars within the full of life metropolis of Barcelona had been on this yr’s high 10 on the World’s 50 Greatest Bars checklist.
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4 bars in Spain made it into the highest 50 — Salmon Guru in Madrid was No. 15.
Italy additionally made a robust exhibiting in 2022’s high 50, with bars in Rome, Florence, Milan and Naples all making the checklist. Newcomer L’Antiquario Napoli earned the No. 46 spot, placing the southern metropolis of Naples into the highest 50 for the primary time.
Florence additionally made its first look on the checklist as did Portugal’s capital metropolis, Lisbon.
Whereas London was toppled from the highest spot, the town continues to be one of many world’s premier cocktail locations. 5 London bars made the checklist, together with The Connaught Bar, which dropped from its No. 1 rating for 2 consecutive years, to No. 8 in 2022.
London’s Tayēr + Elementary, which awards ceremony host Mark Sansom mentioned is “probably the most unique bars on the planet,” held onto its No. 2 spot from 2021.
Europe dominated with extra high bars than another area.
The checklist is the results of votes from 650 bartenders and bar house owners, drinks writers and cocktail specialists.
Extra massive winners
Double Hen Please received the Highest New Entry award for its sturdy debut. Sansom, who’s content material director of The World’s 50 Greatest Bars, instructed CNN Journey the bar has “an virtually Michelin-grade kitchen,” one instance of a rising emphasis on meals applications on the world’s main bars.
In Singapore, No. 33 Manhattan additionally does “critically, critically elevated bar meals,” Sansom mentioned.
Cartagena’s Alquímico is the Greatest Bar in South America at No.10. There are three bars in Buenos Aires on the checklist in addition to one in Lima.
Dubai had three bars within the high 50, together with together with No. 38 Zuma, the Greatest Bar within the Center East and Africa winner for the third yr in a row.
In India, New Delhi’s Sidecar jumped 21 locations to No. 26.
The Greatest Bar in Australasia is Perhaps Sammy in Sydney at No. 29.