Bar Benfiddich

Tokyo, Japan

No. 44 on The 50 Best Bars 2026, No. 62 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026, and No. 18 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025.

Hiroyasu Kayama grows his own botanicals on a farm in Tokigawa, Saitama and carries them into a ninth-floor Shinjuku bar where every cocktail begins with produce he harvested personally. Kayama crushes spices by hand in a brass mortar at the bar, distils ingredients in-house, and builds drinks that taste of specific seasons in specific Japanese soil. No other bar program on earth is this directly connected to the land.