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Wine and Spirits

Wine and Spirits
News and trends in luxury wine and spirits
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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword. Here’s how Hong Kong’s fine dining is improving its green policies: from Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental and Michelin-starred Mono to Vicky Lau’s Mora, Roganic and the Marriott group. Photo: Ting Lung Heen

How Hong Kong’s fine dining scene is getting greener – at last

The staff of Socio at the the 100 Top Tables Tables 2025 Unveiling Ceremony and Awards. Photo: Jordan Chan

Celebrating 100 Top Tables’ top restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and Macau

Bar Leone co-founder Lorenzo Antinori. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Why neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong are gaining popularity

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Ezra Star, who takes a more “culinary” approach to creating drinks at Mostly Harmless in Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Food and Drinks

How Mostly Harmless is reinventing cocktail culture with its non-alcoholic drinks

As the celebrated bar stops serving alcohol because of issues over renewing its liquor licence, owner Ezra Star and her team double down on their mocktail innovations.

Your Perfect Week

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, June 29-July 5

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 27-29

Food and Drinks

Hongkonger wins 2025 Bartenders’ Bartender Award from Asia’s 50 Best Bars

Andrew Ho, co-founder of Hope & Sesame in Guangzhou, tells the story of his rise up the hospitality industry and what the award means to him.

Andrew Ho, co-founder of Hope & Sesame in Guangzhou, southern China, is the winner of the 2025 Bartenders’ Bartender Award from Asia’s 50 Best Bars. Photo: Hope & Sesame
New Openings

Hong Kong’s new openings, from a Japanese bar to a pastry pop-up

Butterfly Patisserie debuts a pop-up, Next Shikaku gets a makeover, Madara opens with Japanese craft cocktails, and Loveramics launches an expanded space in Tai Kwun.

Your Perfect Week

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, June 22-28

Sample sustainable, seasonal dishes at Feuille, enjoy SummerFest on the harbour, hit the Green Room for cocktails and take in the West End’s Life of Pi.

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India

UK Scotch whisky makers cheer news of FTA with India, eye expansion

Foreign competitors eyeing the world’s biggest whisky market can expect stiff competition from Indian makers, industry players say.

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Scotch whisky makers are aiming to expand into India, the world’s biggest market for the alcoholic drink, following the conclusion of free trade agreement talks between the UK and India. Photo: Shutterstock
Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Argo Martini at Argo

Ahead of World Martini Day, we take a look at the signature from Argo at the Four Seasons Hong Kong – a twist on the classic cocktail that will appeal to first-timers and seasoned drinkers alike.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 20-22

New music hub Aer opens, Ella launches a Louisiana-inspired menu, and Osaka’s Craftroom takes over The Opposites for cocktails.

Vietnam

Tears for cheers: Vietnam to raise alcohol tax to 90% by 2031

The new move adds to the challenges facing the beer industry, led by Heineken, Carlsberg and local brewers Sabeco and Habeco.

Young women drink beer at local restaurant in Saigon, Vietnam. Photo: Shutterstock
Your Perfect Week

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, June 15-21

Try caviar tasting at Qura Bar, listen to local bands at Ko Shan Fest, savour Cantonese liquor cocktails, and enjoy a Brazilian culture festival.

Young students of the SDM dance school admire extravagant samba headdresses for Hong Kong’s Brazilian festival, which comes to the city for 10 days from June 20-29. Photo: Nora Tam
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend June 13-15

From a music festival to a fashion pop-up to a sound therapy course to sipping wine paired with music, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 13-15

This weekend, experience a six-hands guest shift at the St Regis, try creative cocktails at Hong Kong’s new Ginza-style bar, and explore nature-inspired drinks with Caprice Bar’s new menu.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 13-15

Celebrate Father’s Day with your meat-loving dad at Morton’s, or head to Rosewood for Spanish specials and Tai Kwun for spice-driven dishes.

Morton’s The Steakhouse in Hong Kong is offering two special steaks for Father’s Day. Photo: Handout
China manufacturing

Baijiu blues and plum pickings: tastes of China’s Gen Z rewrite liquor industry

Young Chinese are driving a shift from the traditional white spirit to fruity, lower-alcohol beverages, in a sign of as evolving lifestyles.

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The Jiangji Distillery is a brewing base for Chinese liquor, located in Baisha town, Chongqing. Photo: Handout
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend June 6-8

From the ultimate celebration of cocktails to ballet, Thai massage and a Lane Crawford pop-up, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 6-8

From fresh takes on classic sips at C108 to can’t-miss guest shifts at Bar Leone and The Aubrey, here’s where to drink this Friday to Sunday.

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Luxury travel

Visiting Venice for the biennale? Here’s how to avoid the tourist traps

From dazzling displays of design, art and architecture, to the best cicchetti spots and a characterful boutique hotel with Venetian Lagoon views, this is how to do the Biennale in style.

A view of Venice’s Grand Canal from Ca’ di Dio. Photo: @cadidio_/Instgram
Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Redemption at Orchard

The Hong Kong bar’s take on the negroni uses prune brandy to accent notes of strawberry, chocolate and hazelnut.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend May 31-June 1

From a celebration of artisan Korean liquors to Wes Anderson’s latest film The Phoenician Scheme, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 30 – June 1

Bid farewell to Stockton, enjoy the Hong Kong Whisky Festival, and celebrate The Savory Project’s anniversary with Native’s unique cocktails.

One of Hong Kong’s original speakeasies, Stockton on Wyndham Street is closing at the end of May after 12 years. Photo: Thomas Yau
Food and Drinks

The Japanese distilleries fuelling craft gin’s ‘unstoppable’ rise

In Japan, distillers are making gin with home-grown ingredients as the spirit gains fans. Could it rival whisky and shochu’s popularity?

Togedama craft gin by Matsuzaki Co. distillery. Photo: Instagram/theweekendph
Asia travel

Nashik, India’s answer to Napa Valley, becomes a tourist draw

Near Mumbai, Nashik’s award-winning vineyards and holy sites draw visitors after something beyond the Taj Mahal as Indian wine tourism booms.

Food and Drinks

Tokyo bartender’s graffiti-themed cocktails inspired by his travels

Hideyuki Saito conjured memories of ‘incredible’ street art for the cocktails on his new menu at Tokyo Edition Toranomon hotel’s Gold Bar.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 23-25

Drinks on a rooftop in Kai Tak, award-winning brews from Chicago, and a dive bar from Orchard’s Alex Pun.

Bar Oasis is a new dive bar from Orchard’s Alex Pun. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

From ‘world’s best pizza’ to cocktail making, bartender’s TV tour of Japan

Mr Lyan’s Taste Trips explores the food and drink scene in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo in its first episode, and host creates a Japanese cocktail.

British bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana, also known as Mr Lyan, is presenter of the series Mr Lyan’s Taste Trips. Here he enjoys a nightcap in Tokyo in the show’s first episode, devoted to Japan. Photo: Mr Lyan’s Taste Trips
Food and Drinks

Language Matters | How whisky took its name from the Gaelic ‘water of life’

‘Whiskie shall put our brains in rage’, a phrase in a 1715 book, marked the first appearance in English of the term for the distilled drink.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend May 16-18

A gin extravaganza at PMQ, a talk about ageing well followed by a run or walk, opera, and a luxury handbag pop-up await you this weekend.

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