Sips

Barcelona, Spain

No. 1 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2023. No. 16 on The 50 Best Bars 2026. The World's 50 Best Bars: No. 3 (2025), No. 3 (2024), No. 3 (2022), No. 37 (2021). Europe's 50 Best Bars: No. 3 (2026), winner of The Best Bar in Spain (2026). Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards: winner of Best International Cocktail Bar (2023), Best New International Cocktail Bar (Top 4, 2022).

The fourteen-seat bar-within-a-bar, Esencia, runs omakase-style liquid tasting menus, ten to fifteen micro-drinks in deliberate sequence, Tuesday through Saturday. Caporale received the Roku Industry Icon Award in 2025, cementing a status that his drinks had already established. Sips operates on the conviction that cocktails can deliver the same complexity as fine dining. It is correct.