The ‘Noma of nightlife’? Hong Kong’s first sustainable bar, The Penicillin, is celebrity bartender Agung Prabowo’s new concept after quitting Asia’s 50 Best-winner The Old Man
Award-winning bartender Agung Prabowo is launching 2 new nightlife concepts: The Penicillin, Hong Kong’s first sustainability-focused bar, and Dead &, a dive bar in Lan Kwai Fong with a ‘cheapskate hour’ offering US$2.60 drinks set to give 7-Eleven a run for its money
Agung Prabowo, the Hong Kong-based Indonesian bartender who won the Industry Icon Award 2020 from Asia’s 50 Best Bars, leaves his award-winning bar The Old Man today (September 30). The Soho speakeasy, inspired by the works of Ernest Hemingway, was named best bar in Asia by Asia’s 50 Best in 2019, but rather than rest on his laurels, Prabowo is hard at work on two new concepts set to open by early November.
The first is The Penicillin, a sustainable bar set to take over the former Buddha Lounge space off of Hollywood Road.
“The bar is going to be the first bar in Hong Kong entirely focused on sustainability,” Prabowo said. “In Hong Kong, it‘s very hard to be 100 per cent sustainable, it’s probably impossible … But a lot of restaurants have already tried, so why not bars?”