Goa, January 14. 2015: Lair (#1), the speakeasy -style cocktail bar in New Delhi’s Vasant Vihar, was crowned India’s best bar for 2024 at a glittering ceremony attended by industry luminaries at the Taj Cidade de Goa Heritage last night. The 5th edition of 30BestBarsIndia, the country’s most prestigious bar ranking and awards platform, also saw Bangalore make history with two new entrants in the list from the city, Bar Spirit Forward (#2), and Soka (#3), rounding up the Top 3. The other top-ranked bars include New Delhi’s Sidecar (#4), Goa’s Hideaway (#5), Bangalore’s ZLB23, The Leela Palace (#6), Pune’s Cobbler & Crew (#7), Mumbai’s Americano (#8), New Delhi’s PCO (#9) and HOME (#10).
Gurgaon’s Comorin (#13) also made history as the bar that has consistently won the Best Restaurant Bar Award for four years. Comorin founder Rohit Khattar whose company also owns other famous restaurants like Indian Accent, Hosa, Chor Bizarre, and Fireback was awarded the Industry Icon Award for 2024
This year’s Top 30 list features bars from eight cities and Goa, with a record ten new entrants. The rankings are based on a poll of a national jury of 275 bar enthusiasts, cocktail connoisseurs, hospitality experts, and industry influencers. Mumbai dominates the Top 30 list with eight bars, followed by New Delhi with six, Goa and Bangalore with five each, and Gurgaon with two. Hyderabad debuted with one bar, alongside single-bar entries from Pune. Kolkata, and Jaipur.
Americano took home the inaugural Best Bar in Mumbai honours, while AM PM was declared the Best Bar in Kolkata, Bar Spirit Forward is the Best Bar in Bangalore, Hideaway, the Best Bar in Goa, and Lair, the Best Bar in Delhi NCR.
The ceremony also saw the announcement of 30BestBarsIndia’s partnership with Moonshine Honey Project to support Moonshine’s ‘Adopt a Hive’ initiative this year. As part of this collaboration, Moonshine will adopt a hive on behalf of each of India’s Top 10 bars for one year. The collaboration champions sustainability by supporting bee populations while enhancing bars’ cocktail offerings.
Vikram Achanta, Co-Founder, 30BestBarsIndia says, “Bangalore is rising, with 5 bars in the Top 30 and bagging 2 of the top 3 slots. The 30 presence of several stalwarts of the bar world in the city also drives the clear demonstration of the inexorable rise of cocktail culture in Bangalore. Overall, it was a great year for the South with a bar from Hyderabad breaking through into the Top 30 and, for the first time ever, a bar from Kerala winning the prestigious Godawan Best Work in Sustainability Award.”
Radhakrishna Nair, Co-Founder, 30BestBarsIndia added, “The fact that there are two new entrants in the Top 3, ten new entrants in the Top 30, and 21 new bars in the Top 50, is a testament to not just the rising quality of bars in the country, but also the increasingly intense level of competition for the rankings since 30BestBarsindia first began ranking bars in 2019. There really is very little that separates the bars in the Top 30. Each of them is a winner”
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