Queen Mary Tavern

Dan Smith and Mony Bunni built a maritime-spirits drinking culture inside a Division Street tavern that reached No. 63 on North America's list by specialising in gin, rum, Scotch, sherry, and Madeira—the spirits that sailed the world's trade routes. The focused beverage programme avoids the everything-to-everyone approach that most neighbourhood bars default to, and the constraint produces a collection that reads like a curated library rather than a liquor store. Queen Mary Tavern operates on the conviction that a bar with a point of view serves better than a bar with everything.