For the fourthyear running, London'sArtesianmaintained its No. 1 status on The World's 50 Best Bars list.Organized by Drinks International magazine, the global bar awards ceremony is now in its fifth year. Apart from Artesian,New York's PDTis the only bar to ever claim the top spot; it was named the world's best bar in 2011.This year's top 50 spanned 27 cities in 19 countries, with 23 of the chosen bars hailing from Europe and 14 making a strong showing for theUS.Sitting atNo. 2 and earning the title of North America's best bar isNew York's venerable The Dead Rabbit, an Irish pub located in the Financial District and owned by two Belfast natives. The Wall Street favorite was also voted second best in the world (and best in North America) on the 2014 list.As for the rest of the top five, it's a London vs. New York throwdown, with London's Nightjar, New York's Employees Only, and London's American Bar nabbing the third, fourth, and fifth spots, respectively.Miami's treasured The Broken Shaker (a James Beard Award semi-finalist) shot up from No. 22to No. 14, while Chicago's forward-thinking The Aviary Bar fell from 13th place to 29th.The awards are based on a poll of over 400 industry professionals. Each voter names five exemplary bars in order of preference (two must be international) and a single pollster spends months weighting and narrowing the list of barswhich this year amounted to 542down to the top 50.Here's a full list of The World's 50 Best Bars:The Artesian, LondonDead Rabbit, New YorkNightjar, LondonEmployees Only, New YorkAmerican Bar, LondonThe Baxter Inn, Sydney28 Hongkong Street, SingaporeHappiness Forgets, LondonConnaught Bar, LondonBlack Pearl, MelbourneAttaboy, New YorkCandelaria, ParisHigh Five, TokyoBroken Shaker, MiamiCanon, SeattleBuck & Breck, BerlinImperial Craft, Tel AvivLobster Bar, Hong KongLe Lion Bar de Paris, Hamburg, GermanyLicoreria Limantour, Mexico CityThe Jerry Thomas Project, RomeThe Clumsies, AthensMaison Premiere, New YorkElephant Bar, NoMad Hotel, New YorkThe Everleigh, MelbourneWhite Lyan, LondonBeaufort Bar, LondonBulletin Place, SydneyAviary, ChicagoTales & Spirits, AmsterdamSmuggler's Cove, San FranciscoDelicatessen, MoscowDoor 74, AmsterdamRuby, CopenhagenManhattan, SingaporeNoMad Bar, NoMad Hotel, New YorkPDT, New YorkMace, New YorkQuinary, Hong KongTrick Dog, San Francisco69 Colebrooke Row, LondonDry Martini, BarcelonaSchumann's, MunichZuma Dubai, DubaiLa Factoria, Old San JuanNottingham Forest, Milan, ItalyTommy's, San FranciscoLost & Found, CyprusLittle Red Door, ParisDandelyan, LondonSEE ALSO:The 25 best restaurants on the planetDON'T FORGET:Business Insider is on TwitterJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Kesha sued her producer for sexual assault, and she says it's destroying her career
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