The World’s 50 Best Bars has unveiled the extended list for 2021, with a Melbourne venue taking out the no.56 position.

The top 50 bars will be announced on 7 December, with the 51-100 rankings published a week beforehand.

More than 600 people from across the globe are called on to determine the annual list, which was expanded from 50 to 100 to acknowledge a larger number of bars and the individuals behind them.

Luke Whearty and partner Aki Nishikura are representing the only Australian venue on the extended list with their Melbourne bar Byrdi.

The venue opened in 2019 after the pair left Operation Dagger in Singapore, which has since closed.

Byrdi takes a hyper-seasonal approach when it comes to creating an evolving drinking experience, with Whearty heroing Victorian ingredients.

“Byrdi focuses on seasonal and local produce; everything we are doing here is 100 per cent Australian and predominantly from regional Victoria,” says Whearty.

There are bars from 26 countries included on the extended list, with a total of 28 new entries.

Full list below.

51 Locale Firenze
FLORENCE, ITALY
52 Bar Trigona
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
53 Alquímico
CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA
54 Double Chicken Please
NEW YORK, USA
55 Lyaness
LONDON, UK
56 Byrdi
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
57 Swift
LONDON, UK
58 Bulgari Bar Dubai
DUBAI, UAE
59 Penicillin
HONG KONG, CHINA
60 Employees Only
NEW YORK, USA
61 Kumiko
CHICAGO, USA
62 Tropic City
BANGKOK, THAILAND
63 Sago House
SINGAPORE
64 The Court
ROME, ITALY
65 Tesouro by Firefly
GOA, INDIA
66 Thunderbolt
LOS ANGELES, USA
67 Red Frog
LISBON, PORTUGAL
68 Dead End Paradise
BEIRUT, LEBANON
69 Danico
PARIS, FRANCE
70 Hero Bar
NAIROBI, KENYA
71 28 HongKong Street
SINGAPORE
72 Argo
HONG KONG, CHINA
73 Satan’s Whiskers
LONDON, UK
74 Barro Negro
ATHENS, GREECE
75 Cause Effect Cocktail Kitchen
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
76 The Bellwood
TOKYO, JAPAN
77 A Bar with Shapes for a Name
LONDON, UK
78 A Bar Called Gemma
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
79 Himkok
OSLO, NORWAY
80 Side Hustle
LONDON, UK
81 Barbary Coast
SINGAPORE
82 L’Antiquario
NAPLES, ITALY
83 Buck & Breck
BERLIN, GERMANY
84 1862 Dry Bar
MADRID, SPAIN
85 Cera & Bruno Vanzan
MILAN, ITALY
86 Art of Duplicity
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
87 Tan Tan Noodle Bar
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
88 Carnaval
LIMA, PERU
89 Sweet Liberty
MIAMI, USA
90 BKK Social Club
BANGKOK, THAILAND
91 Aha Saloon
TAIPEI, TAIWAN
92 The Cambridge Public House
PARIS, FRANCE
93 Flying Dutchmen Cocktails
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
94 Hope & Sesame
GUANGZHOU, CHINA
95 Hoots’
NEW DELHI, INDIA
96 Fréquence
PARIS, FRANCE
97 Tales & Spirits
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
98 Savas Bar
MADRID, SPAIN
99 Death & Co
LOS ANGELES, USA
100 Leyenda
NEW YORK, USA

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