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Raise your glasses please, because in a couple of weeks the brand new list of the World’s 50 Best Bars will be revealed. The 2025 edition will be unveiled at a swanky ceremony in Hong Kong.
But before that, a bit of a tease. The bars ranked from number 51 to 100 in the list have been announced – and three of them are in London. Well done, London! We knew this city’s dogged commitment to the sesh would make us proud one day.
Cocktail-shaped congratulations are due to A Bar with Shapes For a Name in the Haggerston/Shoreditch hinterlands, which is placed at No.73, with Kwãnt Mayfair at 79 and Three Sheets Soho at 80. Two of these bars also feature in Time Out’s own list of the Best 50 Bars in London, which you can read here.
But who decides which bars make the grade in the prestigious World’s 50 Best Bars ranking? A panel of over 800 professional boozehounds, that’s who – with bartenders, drinks writers and cocktail specialists among them.
The World’s 50 Best Bars will be announced on October 8. Last year’s list saw four bars from London making the grade, with Tayēr + Elementary in fourth place, Connaught Bar in 13th, Satan’s Whiskers at 29th and Scarfes Bar at 37.
London bars in the World’s 50 Best Bars 2025 Longlist
- A Bar with Shapes For a Name (73)
- Kwãnt Mayfair (79)
- Three Sheets Soho (80)
The best bars in London, according to Time Out.
Plus: the 50 best pubs in London.
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