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DarkSide: bar review

  • The smallest details get much attention at DarkSide, where specially designed vessels accompany your choice of tipple, and the menus are seasonal

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A range of cocktails from Darkside. Photo: Rosewood Hong Kong
Douglas Parkes

It takes a special bar to make drinkers, attached to favourite hangs on Hong Kong Island, cross the harbour for a cocktail. Evidently self-aware, DarkSide is that sort of bar. No one in the city works harder on seasonal menus than beverage manager Simone Rossi and Arkadiusz Rybak, director of bars at Rosewood Hong Kong. Last year’s Moon menu involved not only new drinks but new vessels to drink them from, by Australian ceramicist Ryan Foote and Polish abstract resin artist Magdalena Klim. The smallest details get huge attention here.

Treacle cocktail at DarkSide. Photo: DarkSide
Treacle cocktail at DarkSide. Photo: DarkSide

Contact details

2/F, Rosewood Hong Kong, 18 Salisbury Road,

Tsim Sha Tsui

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