Pink linen, bubbles and 14 ‘mirages’: AI ranked this Sydney bar most influential in the world – is it worth the hype?

Maybe Sammy is No 1 on the Top 500 Bars global ranking, which is crunched from big data – reviews, online search results and social media – using AI. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Remember Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown gyrating in sync, flicking rum bottles and iced glasses in the air before a throng of permed and adoring city slickers?

Well, this isn’t exactly like a scene from Cocktail – there’s not a single perm in central Sydney in 2023. But the rest of the Maybe Sammy experience? It’s got the moves.