{"id":35283,"date":"2026-05-13T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/35283\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:58:12","slug":"pinnacle-guide-2026-three-london-bars-just-added-to-a-very-prestigious-guide-to-the-best-bars-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/35283\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnacle Guide 2026: Three London bars Just Added to a Very Prestigious Guide to the Best Bars in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since launching in 2024<\/a>, the Pinnacle Guide has established itself as a who\u2019s-who of the world\u2019s most glamourous and innovative bars. And the Michelin-style list \u2013 which dishes out \u2018Pins\u2019 instead of \u2018Stars\u2019 \u2013 has been a fan of London<\/a>\u2019s drinking holes since its inception. Of its 192 featured bars around the globe, an impressive 33 are in the Big Smoke.<\/p>\n

The Pinnacle Guide awards one, two or three Pins to establishments that are either \u2018excellent\u2019, \u2018outstanding\u2019 or \u2018exceptional\u2019. Up to very recently, only one bar in the world had three Pins: London\u2019s Lyaness, which you can read a five-star Time Out review of here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week 46 new bars were added to the Pinnacle Guide, including three new three-Pin spots (meaning Lyaness is no longer the greatest drinkery in the world, in Pinnacle\u2019s eyes). Several new bars were also added in London,\u00a0with one place getting two Pins and two receiving one Pin.<\/p>\n

So, which London bars are now Pinnacle-approved? Well, the two-Pin addition is The Emory Rooftop Bar. The sky-high Knightsbridge spot sits atop The Emory, a 60-room hotel by the owners of Claridge\u2019s<\/a>, and has a cocktail menu that was created in collaboration with Tato Giovannoni \u2013 a globally-renowned mixologist based in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

The newly one-Pinned spots are a couple of\u00a0slick hotel bars: American Bar at The Savoy<\/a> and St James Bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Time Out London Food & Drink Editor Leonie Cooper paid American Bar (pictured below) a visit last year and awarded the place a full five stars. She described the \u2018longest-surviving cocktail bar in London\u2019 as \u2018a veritable Joan Collins of sophisticated bars\u2019 that \u2018feels like stepping into the pages of the Great Gatsby\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"American
\nPhotograph: Jack Hardy <\/p>\n

St James Bar (below) is a speakeasy-style estab in the Grade II-listed St James Sofitel just off Pall Mall. The Pinnacle Guide says it is \u2018built around a Franglaise identity \u2013 a creative blend of French and British flavours, spirits, and traditions that shapes every element of the drinks programme\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"St
\nPhotograph: Jack Hardy <\/p>\n

All the London bars in the Pinnacle Guide, May 2026
\nThree Pins<\/p>\n

Two Pins<\/p>\n

One Pin
\n
\nAmerican Bar at the Savoy
\nArtesian
\nBacchanalia
\nThe Bar Below
\nBar Kinky
\nThe Cocktail Trading Co.
\nEqual Parts
\nEve Bar
\nFlorattica Rooftop
\nThe Guards Bar & Lounge at Raffles
\nThe K Bar
\nKol Mezcaleria
\nKwant Mayfair
\nNightjar Shoreditch
\nThe Pisco Bar at Coya Mayfair
\nThe Royal Cocktail Exchange
\nScales
\nSexy Fish
\nSide Hustle
\nSoma Canary Wharf
\nSoma Soho
\nSt James Bar
\nSwift Soho
\nVelvet By Salvatore Calabrese
\nVesper Bar at The Dorchester
\nViajante87\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the UK Pinnacle Guide, Chester\u2019s tbc* became the country\u2019s first two-Pin bar outside a major city. Seven British drinkeries were newly added to the guide this time around, meaning that the UK remains Pinnacle\u2019s most-represented country with 52 Pinned bars. You can check out the full Pinnacle Guide website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find the London editions to previous rounds of the Pinnacle Guide here: April 2025<\/a>, October 2024<\/a>, May 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay in the loop: sign up for our\u00a0free Time Out London newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since launching in 2024, the Pinnacle Guide has established itself as a who\u2019s-who of the world\u2019s most glamourous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[628,27,652,627],"class_list":{"0":"post-35283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-categories-restaurants","9":"tag-london","10":"tag-news-drinking","11":"tag-restaurants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116566681423865911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}