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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jochan Embley

World’s 50 Best Bars: London’s Tayēr + Elementary claims second place as Connaught Bar loses top spot

Cheers to that: Alex Kratena and Monica Berg, founders of Tayēr + Elementary

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London was named “the cocktail capital of Europe” as five of its bars were named among the 50 best in the world — but the Connaught Bar in Mayfair was knocked off top spot after two years in first place.

Paradiso, a bar tucked away behind a pastrami shop in Barcelona, rose to number one in the list of the World’s 50 Best Bars, with its victory revealed at a ceremony in the Spanish city last night (October 4). It’s the time since the list launched 13 years ago that a bar outside of London or New York has claimed the honour.

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