The World's Top 100 Cocktail Bars
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Rank 1. Kumiko
Japanese Cocktail Bar
Julia Momosé is a name even casual drinkers know, and her Japanese cocktail bar and tasting menu spot in the West Loop is the kind of place that makes you feel like you've been let in on something. The staff somehow manage to be both impeccably sharp and genuinely warm, which is harder than it sounds. Go for the Japanese spirits, stay for the food, and let them pair drinks with both.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 3 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Winner · World's Best Bar
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Outstanding Bar
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Rank 1. Sip & Guzzle
Innovative Japanese Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · World’s Best Cocktail Menu
- 50 Best #39 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #1 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 1. Mírate
Mexican Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · World’s Best Spirits Selection
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best #93 · The World's 50 Best Bars
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · World’s Best Cocktail Menu
- 50 Best #15 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
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Rank 4. Tlecān
Mexican
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · World’s Best Spirits Selection
- 50 Best #23 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2025 · Eli Martínez Bello · Bartenders' Bartender Award
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Rank 4. Handshake Speakeasy
Mexican Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #2 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2026 · Rémy Martin Legend of the List Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 4. Superbueno
Mexican Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #12 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #9 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service · Ignacio "Nacho" Jimenez
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- 50 Best Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award 2025 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #20 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
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- 50 Best Campari One To Watch Award 2025 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #54 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
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Rank 10. Schmuck
European/Middle Eastern
- 50 Best 2026 · Three Cents Best New Opening Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #59 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #4 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 10. Moebius Milano
Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #7 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Bar Team
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Giovanni Allario
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Rank 10. Jewel of the South
Southern Cocktail Bar
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · Outstanding Bar
- 50 Best #44 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · Roku Industry Icon Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars · Chris Hannah
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- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 3 Pins
- 50 Best #8 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #1 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best #16 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #2 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best #19 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Bar Team
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- 50 Best #17 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #5 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 14. True Laurel
American
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best #64 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #14 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best #10 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
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- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best #34 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best Siete Misterios Best Cocktail Menu Award 2026 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best #14 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Europe
- 50 Best #4 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 14. Bar Pompette
French Cocktail Bar
Pompette pulls off something genuinely tricky: it feels like a Parisian café that wandered onto College Street and decided to stay. The cocktail list is where it gets interesting, with combinations that sound like a dare but somehow drink like a dream. Cool-kid regulars sprawl across bentwood chairs and the garden patio like they've nowhere better to be, which, honestly, they don't. One of Canada's 100 Best Bars, and worth every sip.
- 50 Best 2025 · Art of Hospitality Award
- 50 Best #55 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #8 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best #41 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #35 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 14. Martiny’s
Japanese Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #75 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #23 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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- 50 Best #21 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Bar Team
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- 50 Best #46 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #33 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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- 50 Best #53 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #6 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – APAC
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- 50 Best #79 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Europe
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
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- 50 Best 2026 · Altos Bartenders' Bartender Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars · Freddy Andreasson
- 50 Best #71 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
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Rank 28. Café La Trova
Cuban
A Cuban cocktail bar and restaurant in Little Havana where the drinks are as serious as the food and live music fills every corner of the room. Michelle Bernstein teams up with cocktail legend Julio Cabrera here, and together they've built something genuinely special. The crowd is locals and visitors who actually dress for dinner, all leaning in over classics like lechon and strong rum drinks.
- 50 Best #82 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #42 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
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- 50 Best #88 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – APAC
- 50 Best #5 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best #89 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Europe
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Bar Team
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- 50 Best #72 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #37 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
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Rank 28. Service Bar
Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- 50 Best 2026 · #39 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 28. The Bar in Front of the Bar
Cocktail Bar
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- 50 Best #63 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Europe
- 50 Best #28 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best #61 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 28. Thunderbolt
Southern-Inspired
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2025 · Sustainable Bar Award
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 28. Library Bar
Cocktail Bar
Tucked off the grand lobby of the Fairmont Royal York, Library Bar is a jewel-toned cocktail den where the drinks are genuinely serious and the room looks like a film set from a better decade. The cocktail menu is built around a Michael Ondaatje novel set in Toronto, which sounds pretentious until you taste the drinks and realize the team actually pulled it off. The crowd dresses up a little, and nobody seems to mind.
- 50 Best 2026 · Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Hotel Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #19 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best #38 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #17 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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Rank 40. Best Intentions
Midwestern Dive Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #16 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Bar Team
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- 50 Best #91 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – APAC
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- 50 Best #87 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 40. Kaito del Valle
Japanese Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Libby Lingua
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Bar Team
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Libby Lingua
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- VinePair 2025 · Food & Beverage Program of the Year · The Next Wave Awards
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- 50 Best 2026 · #27 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 2 Pins
- 50 Best Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award 2026 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best New International Cocktail Bar
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Bar Team
- 50 Best 2026 · #67 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2023 · The Best Bars in America
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- 50 Best 2026 · #3 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Bar Team
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 40. Prophecy
Cocktail Bar
The basement of Hotel Georgia has been many things over the years, and its latest life as a sleek cocktail bar is by far the best one. The drinks look effortless but apparently take months to develop, which you can taste. The crowd skews stylish and knows it, the music is low and moody, and digital art drifts across the walls. Order something off the cocktail menu and let the vibe do the rest.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Jeff Savage
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Rank 40. Carry On
Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar inside a mock 1960s first-class cabin, where the flight attendants check you in, a beverage cart rolls through the aisle, and the "windows" show sky. People show up in vintage fits and take the whole bit very seriously, which somehow makes it better. The cocktails are genuinely great and genuinely pricey, reservations drop weekly and go fast, so treat this like an actual trip: plan ahead, dress up a little, and enjoy the ride.
- 50 Best 2025 · Best Bar Design Award
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best New Bar · Best of Phoenix
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Civil Works is a cocktail bar where every drink comes loaded with a concept, and somehow it works. The current menu ties each cocktail to the history of Toronto's old Garment District, wars and labour movements and all, printed on an actual fabric-swatch book. Heavy stuff, but the bartenders keep things fun, so you'll find yourself ordering craft Jell-O shots between sips of a rye-and-carbonated-maple number. Come curious and dressed like you have opinions.
- 50 Best 2025 · Best Cocktail Menu Award
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Elise Hanson
- 50 Best 2026 · #29 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- Punch Industry Icon
- Food & Wine 2025 · The 10 Top Bars in the US
- 50 Best 2026 · #100 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 53. La Factoría
Puerto Rican Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- 50 Best 2026 · #26 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- 50 Best Three Cents Best New Opening Award 2025 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – APAC
- 50 Best #12 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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Rank 53. ViceVersa
Neapolitan Pizza Cocktail Bar
Tucked into the Elser Hotel, ViceVersa is the rare cocktail bar where the pizza is as serious as the drinks. The room is dark and a little moody, the kind of place where Miami's perpetual sunshine feels like someone else's problem. Thin, crispy Neapolitan-style pies anchor the menu, the raw bar holds its own, and the affogato martini is exactly what dessert should be.
- 50 Best 2026 · #46 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Esquire 2024 · Affogato Martini · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 53. Bisous
Parisian
- 50 Best 2026 · #30 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 53. Champagne Bar
Hotel Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 3 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
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Rank 53. Nine Bar
Asian-Inspired
- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #76 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
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Rank 53. The Keefer Bar
Chinese Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar in Chinatown that actually leans into its address, pulling traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, baijiu, and the occasional durian into drinks that sound unhinged but somehow work. The crowd is creative and dressed for a night out, not a tasting seminar. Order food, too, since the dim sum and dumplings come from the neighbors. Canada's 100 Best Bars noticed, and they were right to.
- 50 Best 2026 · #7 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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A small, dimly lit cocktail bar where the whole thing, drinks, art, snacks, is built around a 19th-century explorer most people haven't thought about since school. It sounds like a gimmick until the cocktails arrive and they're genuinely great, ranging from bright and citrusy to smoky and bold. The crowd leans romantic, lots of close-talking couples tucked into the corner banquette, which is exactly where you want to be.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #53 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- 50 Best 2026 · #13 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 53. The Cloakroom
Cocktail Bar
Tucked behind a menswear boutique in the Golden Square Mile, this 25-seat cocktail bar has no menu, because the whole point is that they make whatever you actually want. The bartenders size you up, ask a few questions, and tailor something to fit. It's landed on Canada's 100 Best Bars, which tracks. The crowd tends toward people who know what they like but are happy to be surprised. Dress like you wandered in from the shop out front.
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 53. Clemente Bar
Vegan
- 50 Best 2025 · Best New Opening Award
- 50 Best 2026 · #15 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2024 · Martini of the Year: Clemente Martini · The Best Martinis in America
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- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #70 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
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Rank 53. BEKEB
Plant-driven Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- 50 Best 2026 · #24 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Bars
- Wildsam The 50 Most Essential Bars in America
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 66. Midnight Rambler
Cocktail Bar
Tucked beneath the Joule Hotel, this subterranean cocktail lounge is the kind of place where people dress up a little without being asked. The art deco room is dim and mirrored, and the bartenders treat the classics with genuine respect while somehow also knowing every obscure drink you half-remember from a trip abroad. The crowd leans date-night and after-work-but-make-it-elegant. Go with a group and book ahead.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Food & Wine 2025 · The Top 10 Hotel Bars in the US
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- 50 Best Altos Bartenders' Bartender Award 2026 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars · Shelley Tai
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best New International Cocktail Bar
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Bar Team
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
- Punch 2025 · Best New Bartenders · Mak Kelly
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Rank 66. Daisy
Mexican
- 50 Best 2026 · #44 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
- Punch 2025 · Best New Bars
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Rank 66. Identidad
Caribbean Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · Campari One To Watch Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Best New Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #73 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- 50 Best 2026 · #60 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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- 50 Best 2026 · #65 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2023 · The Best Bars in America
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. Central
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Bar Team
- 50 Best 2026 · #96 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Amanda Jones
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best New International Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best #23 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 72. Bandista
Latin-Inspired Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- 50 Best 2026 · #47 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 72. The Realm of the 52 Remedies
Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2026 · #93 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. West
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- 50 Best 2026 · #71 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2023 · Cartagena · The Best Martinis in America
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
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- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2026 · #34 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Middle East & Africa
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Middle East & Africa
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
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Rank 72. 1608
Cocktail Bar
Sipping a cocktail in the same turret room where Churchill allegedly planned the Allied endgame is a solid way to spend an evening. This refined hotel bar inside the Château Frontenac wraps around a circular brass bar with sweeping St. Lawrence views, and the cocktail list leans into Canadian literary figures and local ingredients. The whisky selection has also grown considerably since Churchill's day. Dress like you mean it.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #41 · Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Rank 72. Civil Liberties
Cocktail Bar
Civil Liberties is a no-menu cocktail bar on Bloor where you just tell the bartender what you're feeling and they figure out the rest. The crowd skews creative and slightly obsessive about drinks, which makes sense given the place runs its own house-made liqueurs. It shifts from nerdy conversation starter earlier in the evening to a proper party as the night goes on. An honest neighbourhood bar that happens to be quietly excellent.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #54 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Atwater Cocktail Club is a seriously good cocktail bar that somehow never turned into a tourist trap despite being gorgeous enough to warrant one. The backbar is stacked with rare agave and sugar-cane spirits, and the cocktails are genuinely creative without being annoying about it. Locals in good outfits fill the glittery booths while DJs play Thursday through Saturday. It's on Canada's 100 Best Bars list, and it's earned it.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #62 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · International Bartender of the Year · Kate Boushel
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Rank 72. Happy Accidents
Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Food & Wine 2025 · The 10 Top Bars in the US
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 85. Providencia
Asian, Latin American
A moody neighborhood cocktail bar in the northeast that happens to serve some of the most interesting food in the city. The drinks are serious, but the kitchen is the real surprise, turning out a mash-up of Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American flavors that feels both nostalgic and genuinely playful. The crowd looks like they found it by accident and now won't tell anyone. Go hungry.
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Bars
- Punch 2025 · Ni de Aqui Ni de Alla · Our Favorite Cocktails
- Eater Bar of the Year
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- VinePair 2023 · Industry Icon of the Year · The Next Wave Awards
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
- Time Out #11 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #49 · Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
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- 50 Best 2026 · #89 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2023 · Amis Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
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Rank 85. Tell Your Friends
Cocktail Bar
You descend a staircase, walk a red mirrored hallway, and suddenly you're in a velvet-draped, gold-ceilinged cocktail lounge that has absolutely no business existing under a north Scottsdale restaurant. It's a proper speakeasy vibe with live music and bartenders who take their weird seriously, mixing sweet-savory stuff that sounds unhinged on paper and works anyway. Budget accordingly, because the upgrades are real and tempting.
- Industry Excellence Awards Bar of the Year
- Sunset 2025 · Better Bars · Where to Eat and Drink
- Foodist Awards 2025 · Winner · Iconic Speakeasy Experience
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Rank 85. June
Bistro French
This French bistro on Cambie has become one of those rooms where everyone looks slightly better than they probably deserve, thanks to a sultry red interior and food that commits fully to the idea of comfort as an art form. The cocktail list is genuinely worth the trip on its own. The crowd skews date-night and industry, the kind of people who order another round before the first one's done.
- 50 Best 2026 · #17 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #4 · Best New Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Cry Baby Gallery is a cocktail bar hiding behind a bouncer and a dark curtain in a whitewashed-brick gallery on Dundas West, which tells you exactly what kind of night you're in for. The drinks are genuinely serious, built around a menu that reads like a love letter to Toronto. The crowd is cool in that effortless way that's slightly annoying, and there's rotating art on the walls in case you need something to stare at between rounds.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #69 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
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Rank 85. Dear Friend
Cocktail Bar
Dear Friend is a snug cocktail and oyster bar that helped put Dartmouth's downtown on the map, and the drinks are the main event. The cocktails have a culinary streak to them, the kind that makes you realize someone back there is actually thinking. Beers and ciders are mostly local, wines lean funky, and the bentwood stools and cafe-ish vibe make it easy to stay for one more round than you planned.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #15 · Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
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Rank 85. Bar Madonna
Italian Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #36 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. East
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Rank 85. Loma
Latin-American
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Winner · Best New Bar
- Punch 2025 · Best New Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 85. Artesian
Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Giulia Cuccurullo
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
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Rank 85. Maison Premiere
New Orleans-Style Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #40 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Time Out #7 · The 30 best bars in NYC right now
- The Infatuation The Best Cocktail Bars in NYC
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A cocktail bar on Queen West where the bartenders are basically brewing their own universe, fermenting and culturing ingredients into drinks that sound wild but somehow make complete sense. The vibe is polished and a little moody, and the crowd looks like they all have strong opinions about natural wine. The barrel-aged Negronis aging quietly behind the bar are worth the visit alone.
- 50 Best 2026 · #22 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Europe
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #48 · Best Bars
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Rank 85. Dean & Nancy on 22
Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – APAC
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
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- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Bars
- Punch 2024 · Best New Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
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- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2026 · #55 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2023 · Silver Service Martini · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 85. Ticonderoga Club
Cocktail Bar
Tucked inside Krog Street Market, Ticonderoga Club is the kind of bar where the cocktails are the main event and the food is genuinely good enough to make you stay longer than planned. Multicolored lights, mismatched stools, and enough rum drinks to make a sailor emotional set the tone. The menu is shareable and globe-trotting without being fussy, drawing the sort of regulars who already know what they're ordering before they sit down.
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- 50 Best 2026 · #85 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Outstanding Hospitality