Best bars by Google reviews, city by city.

Common questions

About the bar leaderboards.

• How are the best bars in each city ranked?

  Each city leaderboard pulls the top bars from Google Places using a "top bars in {city}" text search biased to the city centroid, keeps the top 10 results, then sorts by Google star rating (descending) with total review count as the tie-break. This hub aggregates the 59 boards we track for bars. The full dataset is published as open data (CC-BY-4.0) at biglove.to/hyperlocal-summary.json.

• How many Google reviews does a bar need to reach a city's top 10?

  Across the 59 cities on this page, the median review count of a board's #10 spot is 589 reviews. The spread is wide: Calgary is the steepest board (4,419 reviews just to enter) while Dallas is the gentlest (58). Our Google review benchmarks study breaks this down across all seven industries we track.

• Which city has the most competitive bar leaderboard?

  Measured by the review count needed for the last top-10 seat, Calgary is currently the hardest of the 59 bar boards we track, at 4,419 reviews. The single most-reviewed #1 is Lost & Found in Houston, with 18,714 Google reviews.

• How often is this data refreshed?

  Quarterly, from Google Places. The boards behind this page were last refreshed on 2026-08-27. Each city page shows its own refresh date. For real-time numbers, the public Google Maps listing of each business is always the canonical source — these leaderboards are snapshots, not live feeds.