Restaurants & Bars
Greenwich Village Bar Named 10th Best In The World
The Lower Manhattan watering hole was also the highest-ranking bar in the United States, according to the annual list of the world's best.
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — Katana Kitten in Greenwich Village was just named the 10th best bar in the world by the annual World's 50 Best Bars ranking.
The coveted list ranked the Lower Manhattan watering hole at 531 Hudson Street as the best bar in the United States.
It's a jump for Katana Kitten in the annual ranking as it improved six spots from its 2020 ranking of 16th best in the world. It also leapfrogged the routinely celebrated fellow Greenwich Village watering hole, Dante, which dropped from the No. 2 bar in the world in 2020 to the No. 30.
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Here's what the authors of the ranking had to say about Katana Kitten:
"Katana Kitten is the digs of bartending’s greatest smile, the Japanese New Yorker Masahiro Urushido, who, off the back of pedigreed postings at some of the Big Apple’s best bars, created a very particular, personal venue with the backing of James Tune and Greg Boehm," the World's 50 Best Bars wrote. "In essence, this Greenwich Village bar is a hybrid concept – half American dive, half Japanese highball bar, with the sort of quality-focused offering yet everyman vibes that magnetize off-shift bartenders."'
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You can read the full breakdown of Katana Kitten on the rankings website.
For the second straight year, Connaught Bar in London was named the best in the world.
Greenwich Village had an incredible showing on the list, making up half of six NYC bars featured on the list.
Dante at 79-81 MacDougal Street was named the 30th best bar in the world and Employees Only at 510 Hudson Street was named the 60th best.
Dante was named the best bar in the world in 2019 and the second-best in 2020, the ranking did not explain what caused it to fall to 30th.
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Attaboy and Double Chicken Boy on the Lower East Side, along with Leyenda in Brooklyn were also named to the 2021 ranking.
The ranking is compiled by votes from The World’s 50 Best Bars Academy, which comprises 600 drinks experts, including renowned bartenders and consultants, drinks writers and cocktail specialists from around the world.
You can check out the full ranking of the world's best bars here.
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