The World's 50 Best Bars list is out — and Wall Street's favorite pub nabbed the No. 2 spot

Facebook/Dead Rabbit NYCNew York's The Dead Rabbit is North America's best bar, according to the World's 50 Best Bars list.

For the fourth year running, London's Artesian maintained its No. 1 status on the World's 50 Best Bars list.

Organized by Drinks International magazine, the global bar awards ceremony is now in its fifth year. Apart from Artesian, New York's PDT is the only bar to ever claim the top spot; it was named the world's best bar in 2011.

This year's top 50 spanned 27 cities in 19 countries, with 23 of the chosen bars hailing from Europe and 14 making a strong showing for the US.

Facebook/ArtesianArtesian's upscale take on the classic "Sex on the Beach."

Sitting at No. 2 and earning the title of North America's best bar is New York's venerable The Dead Rabbit, an Irish pub located in the Financial District and owned by two Belfast natives. The Wall Street favorite was also voted second best in the world (and best in North America) on the 2014 list.

As for the rest of the top five, it's a throwdown between London and New York, with London's Nightjar, New York's Employees Only, and London's American Bar nabbing the third, fourth, and fifth spots.

Miami's treasured The Broken Shaker (a James Beard Award semifinalist) shot up from No. 22 to No. 14, while Chicago's forward-thinking The Aviary Bar fell from 13th place to 29th.

The awards are based on a poll of more than 400 industry professionals. Each voter names five exemplary bars in order of preference (two must be international) and a single pollster spends months weighting and narrowing the list of bars — which this year numbered 542 — down to the top 50.

Here's the full World's 50 Best Bars list:

1. The Artesian, London
2. Dead Rabbit, New York
3. Nightjar, London
4. Employees Only, New York
5. American Bar, London
6. The Baxter Inn, Sydney
7. 28 Hongkong Street, Singapore
8. Happiness Forgets, London
9. Connaught Bar, London
10. Black Pearl, Melbourne
11. Attaboy, New York
12. Candelaria, Paris
13. High Five, Tokyo
14. Broken Shaker, Miami
15. Canon, Seattle
16. Buck & Breck, Berlin
17. Imperial Craft, Tel Aviv
18. Lobster Bar, Hong Kong
19. Le Lion Bar de Paris, Hamburg, Germany
20. Licoreria Limantour, Mexico City
21. The Jerry Thomas Project, Rome
22. The Clumsies, Athens
23. Maison Premiere, New York
24. Elephant Bar, NoMad Hotel, New York
25. The Everleigh, Melbourne
26. White Lyan, London
27. Beaufort Bar, London
28. Bulletin Place, Sydney
29. Aviary, Chicago
30. Tales & Spirits, Amsterdam
31. Smuggler's Cove, San Francisco
32. Delicatessen, Moscow
33. Door 74, Amsterdam
34. Ruby, Copenhagen
35. Manhattan, Singapore
36. NoMad Bar, NoMad Hotel, New York
37. PDT, New York
38. Mace, New York
39. Quinary, Hong Kong
40. Trick Dog, San Francisco
41. 69 Colebrooke Row, London
42. Dry Martini, Barcelona
43. Schumann's, Munich
44. Zuma Dubai, Dubai
45. La Factoria, Old San Juan
46. Nottingham Forest, Milan
47. Tommy's, San Francisco
48. Lost & Found, Cyprus
49. Little Red Door, Paris
50. Dandelyan, London