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Hong Kong has a thriving bar scene, ranging from local neighbourhood pubs to internationally-renowned cocktail bars, which regularly feature on the World's 50 Best Bars and Asia's 50 Best Bars lists. Key precincts include Lan Kwai Fong, Soho and Tsim Sha Tsui.
- Bars in Hong Kong are going all out to entice customers through their doors – one new venue pays homage to singer Ella Fitzgerald and is all about live music
- Another place, hidden in Tai Kwun, has a clandestine, Prohibition-style vibe, while another looks like the set of a dystopian movie or the skeleton of an animal
Bar food meant chicken wings, fries and sliders until recently, but customers’ evolving demands have driven cocktail bars to up their food game with finer ingredients – and it makes economic sense.
Entry to Hong Kong hidden bar Corsican Stars will be by invitation only. Once inside, there’s space for only 20 guests, and none of the drinks have names.
World Cocktail Championship 2023 winner Leo Ko talks about putting Hong Kong on the map and how being trained by a sommelier helped him dodge ‘curveballs’ at the recent finals in Rome.
Canadian-Chinese food writer turned bartender Gavin Yeung talks about his Hong Kong bar, Kinsman, and why it serves cocktails made with rare Cantonese spirits: to revive the city’s ‘forgotten history’.
Party season demands party fuel – and Hong Kong’s after-hours scene provides with plenty of seasonal specials to keep you topped up
Hilda Fung, a noodle ‘addict’, reveals where to find a bowl of tomato soup noodles in Hong Kong that ‘are truly in a league of their own’, and a French bistro to celebrate special moments.
An umami Mexican food staple, chapulines – grasshoppers – are being added to food and drinks in Hong Kong. We learn how, and find about their rise in popularity.
At the 2023 World’s 50 Best Bars awards ceremony in Singapore, Simone Caporale, co-founder of the bar voted No 1, Sips in Barcelona, spoke about striving for excellence.
Popular in Hong Kong karaoke lounges in the 2000s, whisky green tea was easier to drink than neat scotch, and fuelled many a drunken singalong. Today, some of the city’s top bartenders are shining a new light on an old cocktail.
Stalwart speakeasy 001 has moved from its Soho address to Tai Kwun, where it promises to ‘make the classics great again’ – we got the full story
Known for its classic cocktails and Prohibition-era vibe, Hong Kong’s 001 bar has reopened at Tai Kwun in Central in an equally hidden location and boasting a revamped drinks menu.
Beckaly Franks of Hong Kong bars The Pontiac, Artifact, Call Me Al and Ponty Café is the first woman to be voted Bartenders’ Bartender at the Asia’s 50 Best Bars awards. She talks about her road to success.
Hong Kong hosted the black-tie Asia’s 50 Best Bars event for the first time, and city bar Coa edged out Singapore’s Jigger & Pony for top spot. The Lion City still finished with the most bars ranked, though.
Gilbert Yeung Kei-lung, kingpin of the Hong Kong nightlife scene, digs into the archives of his Wyndham Street club in preparation for its delayed 20th anniversary celebrations.
For the first time, Hong Kong will host the annual ceremony at which Asia’s 50 best bars will be unveiled and drinks industry talent rewarded.
Winners Devender Sehgal of Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong’s 3 bars and Embla’s sommelier Yulia Ezhikova both stress the importance of the listening to the customer
We sit down with Hong Kong’s superstar mixologists and look back on how the city’s bars survived – and thrived – despite Covid-19
A lot has changed in Hong Kong in 50 years, but not Ned Kelly’s Last Stand. It’s in the same place it was when it opened in December 1972, has the same owner, and the same decor.
CNY Bar’s espresso martini, inspired by Rage Against the Machine’s classic “Wake Up” from 1991, is part of the fine tunes and tipples concept
The decor is bright and engaging, and a whole section of the menu is dedicated to spritzes that are an intriguing mix of flavours
With a name inspired by a Douglas Adams novel, Mostly Harmless focuses on fresh, local ingredients and a no-nonsense presentation
It is impossible to ignore the role garnishes play in perking up a drink’s IG postability – but now things have gotten so out of hand an anti-adornment backlash is brewing
The No 1 position on the World’s 50 Best Bars for 2022 list was taken by Paradiso in Barcelona. European and American bars dominate, with only eight Asian venues ranked – including two each in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok.
The Negroni is a classic cocktail, invented in Italy in 1919 and picked up around the world. We look at the drink and its many variations, as we celebrate Negroni Week.
Hong Kong night owls have some new places to check out at last, including a speakeasy, a vermouth specialist, the return of a Hong Kong craft beer favourite, and a bar focused on Chinese flavours.
