ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The cocktail community keeps pouring out awards Happy Accidents bar in the Nob Hill area of Albuquerque.

Happy Accidents recently took home a pin from London-based Pinnacle Guide. These pins go to some of the world’s best cocktail bars, based on a self-application and anonymous in-bar reviews.

The award is similar to a Michelin star. In fact, only 13 bars in the U.S. – and about 60 worldwide – have a pin.

“People are like, ‘Oh, you’re not even a secondary market. You’re a tertiary,’ but we’re still great, and we’re still doing awesome things. And it’s important that people don’t forget that,” said Kate Gerwin, the owner of Happy Accidents.

Gerwin added that cocktails are an important part of the business but it’s more than that for Happy Accidents.

“We want to be ambassadors for New Mexico. We want people to realize that the city is doing really cool things, that Albuquerque is just as great as London and Singapore and Dubai and all these other places like we have things going on we have things to offer,” Gerwin said. “And we want people to come here and leave missing Albuquerque and realizing that we have a lot of really cool things that other cities don’t have.”

Happy Accidents will hold onto its pin for two years. Then, Gerwin says they can reapply for two or three pins. The application for the next round of pins is now. It’s open to any bar around the world.