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South China Morning Post
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 13-15
As Hong Kong reels from sweltering temperatures and a typhoon warning, take refuge this weekend as The St Regis Bar Hong Kong hosts two Taiwanese guests in a six-hands guest shift. Elsewhere, Ginza-style Madara opens in Causeway Bay under Rayven Leung from Takumi Mixology Salon, and the Four Seasons' Caprice introduces a new nature-inspired menu. Thursday, June 12 St Regis Bar Hong Kong x Bar Without x To Infinity & Beyond Pedison Kao (left) from Bar Without and Mars Chang from To Infinity & Beyond will arrive at the St Regis Bar Hong Kong for a six-hands guest shift. Photos: Handout What: The St Regis Bar Hong Kong assembles mixologists from two of the best venues in Taiwan for a rare six-hands guest shift. Pedison Kao – who placed third globally at last year's World Class competition – represents Bar Without and their deft use of ingredients such as kaoliang, yogurt and even tobacco. Meanwhile, To Infinity & Beyond, the futuristic, space-inspired 61st Best Bar in Asia, is beaming over founder Mars Chang for an out-of-this-world set of libations. Where: The St. Regis Hong Kong, 1 Harbour Drive, Wan Chai When: 7pm-11pm Friday, June 13 Madara opens in Causeway Bay
South China Morning Post
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 14-16
As the weather turns a corner, Hong Kong's bar scene is starting to emerge from its post-Lunar New Year hibernation. Taipei's Bar Without visits Hong Kong's The Opposites, while Mandarin Oriental celebrates art month with three art-inspired cocktails. Meanwhile, in our sister SAR, Wynn Palace overhauls Wing Lei Bar and brings Scottish mixologist Mark Lloyd to helm the concept – a perfect way to cap off any weekend trip to Macau. Thursday, March 13 Bar Without x Opposites The Opposites has partnered with Pedison Kao from Taipei's Bar Without. Photo: Handout What: The Opposites looks to ease you into the weekend courtesy of host Pedison Kao, brand director of Bar Without in Taipei, and partners Johnnie Walker, Don Julio, The Singleton and Tanqueray. Kao was the Taiwan bartending champion, placing in the top three globally in the Diageo World Class competition 2024. Bar Without offers contemporary, high-concept cocktails using ingredients such as kaoliang, tea, burnt miso, tobacco, shio koji, pineapple chips and more. Advertisement Where: The Opposites, LG/F, Hilltop Plaza, 49 Hollywood Road, Central When: 8pm-11pm Friday, March 14 Art Month sips at the Mandarin Oriental The Aubrey's Angry Girl, available throughout March to celebrate Hong Kong's art month. Photo: Handout What: With some of the year's biggest art fairs including Art Basel and Art Central just around the corner, the Mandarin Oriental is unveiling an array of dishes, menus and cocktails that dazzle in both style and flavour. The Aubrey is offering the Angry Girl Highball, which focuses on coffee-infused shochu, cacao and barley, and is based on the Angry Girl series of paintings by Yoshitomo Nara. The Chinnery's Self Portrait, available through March to celebrate Art Month. Photo: Handout Elsewhere in the MO, the Captain's Bar is serving The Comedian, which adds banana, marsala and coconut to the classic Negroni, inspired by the viral piece of the same name by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. At the Chinnery, the Self-Portrait pays tribute to – you guessed it – painter George Chinnery, in the form of a gin sour riff. Where: Mandarin Oriental, 5 Connaught Road Central, Central When: Advertisement The Aubrey, noon-9.30pm
