Milk & Honey, the London speakeasy owned by Match Bar Group founder Jonathan Downey, has been voted the best bar in the world for the second year running by Drinks International magazine.
The World’s 50 Best Bars Awards, an independent poll conducted on behalf of the bar industry magazine, saw six UK bars make the list, five of which are in London.
The list however was dominated by New York locations, with PDT (Please Don’t Tell) at number two, and Milk & Honey’s sister bar at number four.
Jonathan Downey, who also operates the Giant Robot and Tiny Robot concepts under the Match Bar Group, said: “This is the second year in a row we’ve won this award and it’s nice to get some good news.
“Of course, my huge joy is tempered somewhat by the realisation that, among other things, three of the bars in the top 50 are in Dubai. Both Match Bar and Trailer Happiness made it into the top 50 last year but this year they’ve been nudged into top 100 oblivion by the Dubai lot. We just can’t compete anymore.”
The World's 50 Best Bars 2010 are:
1. Milk & Honey, London
2. PDT, NY
3. Harry’s Bar, Venice
4. Milk & Honey, New York
5. Buddha Bar, Paris
6. Pegu Club, NY
7. Death & Co, NY
8. Employees Only, NY
9. Harry’s New York Bar, Paris
10. Academy, London
11. The Connaught, London
12. Der Raum, Melbourne, Australia
13. Black Pearl, Melbourne, Ausstralia
14. Coco Bongo, Cancun, Mexico
15. Q’Ba, New Delhi, India
16. Matterhorn, Wellington, NZ
17. Sky Bar Unique Hotel, Brazil
18. Zeta Bar Sydney Hilton, Australia
19. Enigma Marriott Hotel, Mumbai, India
20. Schumann’s American Bar, Munich, Germany
21. The Lonsdale, London
22. Four Seasons, Buenos Aires, Argentina
23. Bubba’s Bar, Barbados
24. F Bar, New Delhi, India
25. Bramble, Edinburgh
26. Dry Martini Bar, Barcelona
27. Cafe Caprice, Cape Town, SA
28. Buddha Bar, Dubai
29. Skyview Bar, Dubai
30. Planet Bar, Cape Town, SA
31. Blue Frog, Mumbai, India
32. City Space, Moscow, Russia
33. Standard Bar, LA
34. 1806, Melbourne, Australia
35. Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen, Denmark
36. Barasti Bar, Dubai
37. Bert’s Bar, Barbados
38. Sling In, Helsinki, Finland
39. Buddha Bar, Kiev, Ukraine
40. Hemmingway Bar, Paris, France
41. Bar do Copa, Rio, Bazil
42. Le Lion, Hamburg, Germany
43. Buddha Bar London
44. Star Bar, Tokyo
45. Mangos, Florida
46. Quo Vadis, London
47. Bòeme, Rome, Italy
48. Nottingham Forest, Milan
49. Salotto 42 Rome
50. The Ivy, Sydney