New bars and pubs: where they open and who supplies them
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Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 1,003 new bar and pub records entered our newly opened businesses section in the United States and 304 in the United Kingdom — 14,057 across the 35 countries we measure. Among each country’s bar cities, New York (16) and London (24) received the most.
How many new bars open, and where?
Our database holds 72,934 bar and pub records in the United States and 40,481 in the United Kingdom — cocktail bars, sports bars, nightclubs included. In the 30 days, 1,003 and 304 new ones arrived: 13.8 and 7.5 per 1,000 bar records already there, against 13.8 and 11.5 across all sectors.
| City | Bar records | New, 30 days | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,801 | 16 | 70.0% | 63.1% |
| Houston | 1,226 | 12 | 68.1% | 37.8% |
| Los Angeles | 700 | 9 | 72.4% | 59.4% |
| Chicago | 1,017 | 8 | 76.6% | 61.1% |
| Washington | 455 | 6 | 73.4% | 73.0% |
| Portland | 590 | 5 | 75.3% | 63.1% |
| Philadelphia | 605 | <5 | 59.0% | 39.5% |
| San Francisco | 581 | <5 | 76.1% | 73.0% |
| San Antonio | 580 | <5 | 71.6% | 41.9% |
| Austin | 483 | <5 | 68.5% | 66.0% |
| Las Vegas Valley | 449 | <5 | 84.2% | 78.8% |
| Dallas | 423 | <5 | 75.4% | 57.9% |
New York (16) and Houston (12) received the most new bar records, ahead of Los Angeles (9). All US figures: bars and pubs in the United States.
| City | Bar records | New, 30 days | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 3,714 | 24 | 77.5% | 75.3% |
| Manchester | 499 | 10 | 64.5% | 68.5% |
| Birmingham | 472 | 7 | 70.1% | 57.4% |
| Liverpool | 634 | <5 | 59.9% | 50.2% |
| Glasgow | 464 | <5 | 74.4% | 51.3% |
| Bristol | 460 | <5 | 74.1% | 62.8% |
| Edinburgh | 418 | <5 | 83.5% | 69.6% |
| Sheffield | 380 | <5 | 72.9% | 55.5% |
| Leeds | 335 | <5 | 72.8% | 65.7% |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 278 | <5 | 71.9% | 63.3% |
| Brighton and Hove | 273 | <5 | 79.5% | 74.7% |
| Nottingham | 260 | <5 | 65.8% | 61.2% |
London received 24 new bar records, ahead of Manchester (10). The county view is on the Greater London page; all UK figures: bars and pubs in the United Kingdom.
How reachable are new bars?
In the United States, 72.9% of bar records carry a phone number and 43.2% website information (all sectors: 83.1% and 61.7%); in the United Kingdom, 75.3% and 53.7%. 25,640 US bar records — 35.2% — have a phone but no website information; in the UK, 11,365 (28.1%).
A bar is an evening business: the address and coordinates turn a week’s new records into a daytime round — before service — and the phone is for picking a quiet hour, not the weekend. Serving alcohol and playing music are licensed activities in most jurisdictions; the details belong to the licensing authority, and we convey none of them. Rules on unsolicited calls and messages differ by country and channel, and the obligation lies with the sender; check them with your own counsel before a campaign.
Six markets compared
| Country | Bar records | New, 30 days | New per 1,000 bar records | New per 1,000 records, all sectors | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 72,934 | 1,003 | 13.8 | 13.8 | 72.9% | 43.2% |
| Spain | 106,672 | 779 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 61.2% | 15.2% |
| Germany | 31,170 | 499 | 16.0 | 8.3 | 55.6% | 36.0% |
| France | 33,626 | 322 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 66.6% | 23.2% |
| United Kingdom | 40,481 | 304 | 7.5 | 11.5 | 75.3% | 53.7% |
| Türkiye | 9,919 | 134 | 13.5 | 11.1 | 46.2% | 12.7% |
Relative to the records already there, new bar records arrived faster than records across all sectors in 2 of the 6 markets; in the United States and France the two rates were within 5% of each other; in Spain and the United Kingdom bars were slower. Website information ranges from 53.7% in the United Kingdom to 12.7% in Türkiye; in Spain and France, close to half of bar records carry a phone and no web address at all — the most phone-first sector we measure.
How a supplier reaches a new bar
A new record is dated by the day it reached us, not by the opening day. Some of this month’s bars are still fitting out, some have traded quietly for weeks. The first conversation establishes which — the stage decides what a new supplier can still win.
Before opening: cellar, sound and glassware
- Drinks: the opening drinks list — draught, bottles, wines, mixers — is set with the fit-out, and the delivery relationship that starts then tends to hold. Distributors who want the account walk in before the refrigeration is even plugged in; the food-and-coffee side of the trade has its own guide in winning new restaurant accounts.
- Sound and screens: speakers, ambient levels and match-day screens are an opening decision — hard to rewire once the ceiling is closed.
- Fixtures and furniture: bar counter, back-bar, stools and tables; the signage that follows has its own sellers (signage and print leads).
- Glassware, ice and cleaning: glass by serve type, ice machines and the cleaning schedule are bought for opening week; card payment has its own playbook in merchant services leads.
The first months
Once the doors are open, pours become data: which lines move, which bottles sit, glass breakage, the ice machine that cannot keep up on Fridays, the playlist nobody likes. A supplier who walks in during the first weeks with a reorder plan for the slow lines has a reason to be there.
Working a daily list
- Visit before service: coordinates turn the week’s new records into an afternoon round; opening hours, where published, mark the safe hours.
- Read the record: category (bar, pub, cocktail bar, sports bar, nightclub) — a nightclub buys differently than a neighbourhood pub.
- Check for repeats: one business can have several records; the same name on two new records may be a second site of the same operator.
- Bring something to taste or hear: a tasting case, a glass in their serve, a sound demo.
- Keep the record ID: exports carry a stable ID per record, so notes stay attached when you export again.
Bars sit next to restaurants and cafés in the same flow — the method for that side is in how to find new restaurants and cafés.
The search in the panel
- Category: bar, pub, cocktail, sports or wine bar, nightclub. Each record keeps its own category and categories are chosen one by one.
- Area: city and district; coordinates for the daytime round.
- Time: arrived in the newly opened businesses section in the last 30 days.
- Channel: phone number on record if your team calls; “no website information” if you sell websites or event pages.
- Watch: save the search and new matches arrive by email every day.
Searching and counting are free on every plan, so you can see how many new bars your territory had this month before you spend a credit (pricing). A credit is spent the first time you open a record’s details, and an export counts as opening; one credit opens one newly opened business or five established ones, and a record you have opened never costs again. Exports are CSV or XLSX. A record carries name, category, address, city, district, phone, web address, coordinates and, where available, opening hours; there is no email column and no named-person column.