Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 14-16
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.
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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:
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The Aubrey, noon-9.30pm
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