The World's 50 Best Bars 2018 | 51-100 list in pictures
Here are the bars voted between 51st and 100th in the 10th edition of the highly anticipated list.
Explore some of the world's hottest drinks destinations in the 51-100 list below, presented in association with Bols Genever, with 19 new entries, including bars from Toronto to Shanghai. Don't forget to tune in on Facebook on Wednesday 3rd October to follow the awards ceremony live.
Discover the 51-100 list:
51. SOBER COMPANY (NEW ENTRY) Shanghai, China
52. JERRY THOMAS SPEAKEASY Rome, Italy
53. PRESIDENTE (NEW ENTRY) Buenos Aires, Argentina
54. QUINARY Hong Kong, China
55. THE BAMBOO BAR AT MANDARIN ORIENTAL (NEW ENTRY)
Bangkok, Thailand
56. ABV San Francisco, USA
57. THE GIBSON London, UK
58. TIPPLING CLUB Singapore
59. DRY MARTINI Barcelona, Spain
60. THE BROKEN SHAKER Miami, USA
61. PANDA AND SONS (NEW ENTRY) Edinburgh, UK
62. LOBSTER BAR AND GRILL Hong Kong, China
63. BAR ORCHARD GINZA Tokyo, Japan
64. CHARLES H Seoul, Korea
65. BAR TRENCH Tokyo, Japan
66. ALICE CHEONGDAM (NEW ENTRY) Seoul, Korea
67. BRAMBLE Edinburgh, UK
68. CARNAVAL (NEW ENTRY) Lima, Peru
69. ZUMA Dubai, UAE
70. BAR RAVAL (NEW ENTRY) Toronto, Canada
71. GUILHOTINA São Paulo, Brazil
72. UNTITLED (NEW ENTRY) London, UK
73. DANICO (NEW ENTRY) Paris, France
74. AMOR Y AMARGO (NEW ENTRY) New York, USA
75. BULLETIN PLACE Sydney, Australia
76. GIBSON Singapore
77. MACE New York, USA
78. THE BAXTER INN Sydney, Australia
79. THE BAR WITH NO NAME London, UK
80. 1930 (NEW ENTRY) Milan, Italy
81. ANVIL Houston, USA
82. SUBASTOR São Paulo, Brazil
83. AVIARY CHICAGO Chicago, USA
84. THE LONG ISLAND BAR (NEW ENTRY) New York, USA
85. LE CHAMBER Seoul, Korea
86. FRANK BAR São Paulo, Brazil
87. TWO SCHMUCKS (NEW ENTRY) Barcelona, Spain
88. HERBS AND RYE Las Vegas, USA
89. AVIARY NEW YORK (NEW ENTRY) New York, USA
90. DR STRAVINSKY (NEW ENTRY) Barcelona, Spain
91. MAISON PREMIERE New York, USA
92. DIRTY DICK (NEW ENTRY) Paris, France
93. THE OTHER ROOM (NEW ENTRY) Singapore
94. IMPERIAL CRAFT Tel Aviv, Israel
95. ABOVE BOARD (NEW ENTRY) Melbourne, Australia
96. PDT New York, USA
97. LEYENDA (NEW ENTRY) New York, USA
98. HANKY PANKY Mexico City, Mexico
99. NOTTINGHAM FOREST Milan, Italy
100. POTATO HEAD BEACH CLUB Bali, Indonesia
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)