With a seasonal menu run by the venerable Mo Kaba (and a great house gin!), the elegant bar is a surprise located on a somewhat shady backstreet. Guts & Glory has become equally popular with local and visiting barflies. Our first GSA bar on the list isn’t in one of the big-hitters, but the smaller city of Karlsruhe. Yippie Ki Yay Motherfu***r indeed.ĭanico, 6 Rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France Guts & Glory (Karlsruhe) De Soto’s cocktail list is top notch too. Such decadent use of punctuation however doesn’t spell doom for Nico De Soto’s new venture – a casual chic and elegant bar that’s taken the City of Light by storm (!) in 2016.Īttached to Darocco – an Italian trattoria which itself is most likely deserving of a place in a separate food list – it’s a small, gorgeous space, from the black marble counter to the brass lamps. “Yippie Ki Yay Motherfu***r!” Exclamation marks litter the menu for Paris’ Danico. “Drink sake, and then more sake”, anyone?ħ Tales bar, Sosharu 5RR, 64 Turnmill St, London EC1M Danico (Paris) Yes, it’s especially exciting to hit up a vending machine after purchasing your cocktail, where an absinthe-soaked sugar cube is released – meant to go in your cocktail! – and a pod with Japanese proverb. Located in the former premises of one of London’s most revered clubs, there’s indeed great sake – but trust us, it’ll take some self control staying “soba” somewhere this fun.īlasting out a hip-hop soundtrack, there’s a whole bunch to keep you lodged here for hours – from delicious wagyu beef skewers, to the Tokyo vibe, to the vending machines. “Drink sake, stay soba” says the neon sign imprinted on 7 Tales, a bar located in the basement of the Japanese restaurant Sosharu. The Tailor Bar, NH Collection Amsterdam Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, JS Amsterdam, Netherlands 7 Tales (London) From a bar menu separated into sections for cashmere, silk, cotton and hemp, to a bar engraved with measuring tape and pins and sewing implements hanging from the ceilings, it’s a story expertly told in 360 degrees – with expert drinks to boot. It’s thus no surprise that Amsterdam’s Tailor Bar has fitted into the city’s cocktail landscape with such stylish panache.īoth the menu, curated by Tess Posthumus and Wynand Fockink, and the design of the bar, tell the story of the tailor Krasnapolsky, who arrived in Amsterdam in 1856. Tailoring requires creativity, accuracy, attention to detail and a fine hand. Give their fermented Bellini a spin if you’re ever at their newbie joint on the 10th arrondissement.īonhomie Bar, 22 Rue d’Enghien, 75010 Paris, France Tailor Bar (Amsterdam) The team behind Lulu White and Little Red Door – would we have expected any less? – have created a new joint that has cracked all the bases. From morning to night, there’s an open kitchen, great juices, coffee and, of course, a cracking cocktail bar on offer. Think of Bonhomie like gastronomy’s version of a shopping mall – minus the sterility. Let’s hope for an even more exciting 2017! Bonhomie (Paris) And here’s a shout-out to London’s The Gibson, the best new European bar at this year’s MIXOLOGY BAR AWARDS, which just missed the cut – inofficially opening last November. Many great bars haven’t made the list – and still deserve your visit! Any bar that opened between mid-December 2015 to mid-December 2016 is eligible – meaning we caught a few 2015 enders and a few recent December openings in the process. First off, this year we expanded our MIXOLOGY BAR AWARDS to Europe and thus we have also expanded our top 10 list out of the GSA (Germany, Switzerland, Austria) countries to incorporate all the great bars that opened across the continent.Īlso, don’t take this as gospel. 2016’s been a great year in that regard, one with plenty of corking openings. Notably, when you focus in on our ever-growing, ever-evolving bar world. And whilst equating the beverage biz to global geopolitics isn’t something we’re in line with, there’s always room for some positivity. What a year it was in the bar biz! In the year in which we expanded our MIXOLOGY BAR AWARDS to Europe, here’s our top ten bar openings of 2016 across the entire continent.
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