Paradise, Barcelona
I don't know if it's the worst or the best time to look for the best bar on the planet in this somewhat taciturn present, but what the hell: we must celebrate until the end . These are tremendously complicated times for the hospitality industry; the bleeding of the closures that does not stop , curfews, the budding confinement and the bar as an emblem of everything that is prohibited : a closed, dark place, little ventilation and less desire to distance, because one will be very close to a cocktail bar. From the cocktail, from the bar, from your companion and from so many unforgettable nights . Anyway, I don't know how the hell the bar can reinvent itself, but here they are The World's 50 Best Bars punctual like the Anglo-Saxon maitre d' of a Berlin hotel.
Barcelona is the city in Spain where you drink the best because there it is Paradise by Giacomo Giannotti (the owners are Lito Baldovinos and Enric Rebordosa) leading the traditional brigade from that very particular speakeasy in full Borne which is accessed through the refrigerator door of a Pastrami Bar . Paradiso is a party and one day we will have to continue with the party right where we left off, right? Salmón Gurú by Diego Cabrera at 22 and Two Schmucks by Moe Aljaf and A.J. White it goes to 26, showing off attitude and vibrating from the heart of the Raval. Bravo for everyone.
the hotel bar Connaught in Mayfair it is the new best cocktail bar on the planet and I'm glad, because it represents like no other all those values that we love about mixology: civility, elegance, discretion and hedonism in the best sense of the word . That special drink, that moment that is yours just because, in front of an Old Fashioned and with all the British phlegm well understood , we pirra the place designed by David Collins and the artillery the Italian Agostino Perrone behind the bar Dante in New York is the second and The Clumsies in Greece the third.
Connaught Bar, the Best Bar in the World in 2020 according to 50 Best Bars
In terms of trends, it seems that the thing is going through the relocation of the big financial cities ( London, Berlin, New York, Singapore or Tokyo ) and give space to less cosmopolitan scenarios, less 'Monocle' meat. To begin with, the choice of tato giovannoni (owner of Atlantic Florist in Buenos Aires ) What Bartenders’ Bartender of 2020 and the increasingly common presence, slowly and with good lyrics, of small 'under the radar' cocktail bars.
Who knows what will happen this year… who knows what the world to come will be like, right?
What is clear is that, no matter what happens, we will continue to be glued to a drink and we will shout that genius of Nati Abascal very loudly: “ because I love everyone, I love you, you, that one. I love everyone, because I am very human”.