{"id":24463,"date":"2025-04-16T10:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24463\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:09:13","slug":"four-london-bars-added-to-prestigious-michelin-like-guide-to-the-worlds-best-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24463\/","title":{"rendered":"Four London Bars Added to Prestigious Michelin-Like Guide to the World\u2019s Best Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy drinking in classy places? Then you\u2019ll like the Pinnacle Guide, which is kind of like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/restaurants\/michelin-star-restaurants-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelin Guide<\/a>, but for bars instead of restaurants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It only launched last year, but the cocktail crowd is already taking it very seriously. Pinnacle hands out one, two or three \u2018Pins\u2019 to bars that are either \u2018excellent\u2019, \u2018outstanding\u2019 or \u2018exceptional\u2019. A bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/news\/these-31-bars-have-just-been-added-to-a-prestigious-world-best-list-041525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new one and two Pin bars<\/a> have just been announced, including four in London.<\/p>\n<p>The newly anointed one-Pin bars are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/bars-and-pubs\/equal-parts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Equal Parts<\/a> in Hackney \u2013 which you can also find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/bars-and-pubs\/the-best-bars-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Out\u2019s own Best Bars in London list<\/a> \u2013 as well as The Bar Below, which is part of Hide restaurant in Piccadilly, and The K Bar in South Kensington\u2019s The Kensington hotel, which is one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/bars-and-pubs\/kensington-bars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Bars in Kensington<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"a45d6b47-a99f-b34a-c11b-85ad359b7506\" class=\"photo lazy inline\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"lazy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744798153_253_image.webp.webp\" alt=\"Kioku Sake Bar, London\" data-caption=\"\" data-credit=\"Photograph: Kioku Sake Bar\" data-width-class=\"\" data-image-id=\"106242079\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nPhotograph: Kioku Sake Bar&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Just one London bar was newly given two-Pins; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/bars-and-pubs\/kioku-sake-bar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kioku Sake Bar<\/a> at The OWO on Whitehall, another spot that you can find in Time Out\u2019s our best bars in London list. This also means that The OWO building now contains three bars that feature in the Pinnacle Guide, with Kioku joining the two-Pin Spy Bar and the one-Pin Guard\u2019s Bar. It\u2019s now the most \u2018Pinned\u2019 venue in the world. Check out our full list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/bars-and-pubs\/the-best-hotel-bars-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best hotel bars in London<\/a> if that\u2019s your kind of scene.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/this-ultra-prestigious-award-has-only-been-given-to-one-bar-in-the-world-and-its-in-london-101224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three-PIN category is still solely represented by Lyaness<\/a>, a multi-award winning bar in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>\u2019s Sea Containers Hotel owned by mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana and known for its clever-clever use of ingredients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>All the London bars in the Pinnacle Guide<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Three Pins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two Pins<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Kioku Sake Bar<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Nipperkin<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Spy Bar at Raffles<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>One Pin<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Artesian<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Bacchanalia<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Bar Kinky<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Equal Parts<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Kol Mezcaleria<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Kwant Mayfair<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Nightjar Shoreditch<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Sexy Fish<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Side Hustle<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Swift Soho<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Bar Below<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Guards Bar &amp; Lounge at Raffles<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The K Bar<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Velvet By Salvatore Calabrese<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Vesper Bar at The Dorchester<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Viajante87<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/bars-and-pubs\/the-best-bars-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best bars in London, according to Time Out<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay in the loop: sign up to our<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/newsletter?cid=lon~editorial~acquisition~newsletter~contentlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<strong>free Time Out London newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VabxG0jK0IBqoptkHH3i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enjoy drinking in classy places? 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