Advertisement

Penicillin: bar review

  • The focus on “closed loop” cocktails and sustainability could have been restrictive, but Penicillin turns a potential weakness into a strength

Reading Time:1 minute
Why you can trust SCMP
A Penicillin cocktail. Photo: Penicillin

It takes guts to leave a concept you helped build into the Best Bar in Asia 2019. But that’s what Agung Prabowo and Roman Ghale showed when leaving The Old Man in 2020. Just as gutsy was their decision to open a new bar focused on “closed loop” cocktails and sustainability – restricting what could be used behind the bar. This potential weakness has become a strength, using local and repurposed ingredients to fashion inspiring new cocktails and original takes on the classics. The similarly thoughtful food comes as a bonus.

The Upcycled cocktail at Penicillin. Photo: Penicillin
The Upcycled cocktail at Penicillin. Photo: Penicillin

Contact details

LG/F, Amber Lodge,

Advertisement

23 Hollywood Road, Central

Read more about this year’s 100 Top Tables winners.
loading
Advertisement