Hong Kong bar collaborations to experience ahead of the World’s 50 Best Bars awards

Hong Kong is by now well accustomed to the Asia’s 50 Best Bars ceremony, held here in 2023 and 2024. But this year the bar has been raised in terms of prestige as the city welcomes the World’s 50 Best Bars awards for the first time. This means representatives from the finest watering holes from across the globe will be converging at Kai Tak Cruise Terminal on October 8, when the latest top 50 list will be unveiled.

Although the ceremony is closed to the public, that hasn’t stopped the city’s hooch merchants whipping up a cocktail frenzy, with more than 100 open-to-the-public guest shifts over the course of the week. Below are our picks of the best events at which to indulge. The choice of venue for a hair of the dog the next day, that’s on you though.

Gokan

As part of the official 50 Best Signature Sessions, Gokan will host some of the cocktail world’s pre-eminent thinkers, including GN Chan of New York’s Double Chicken Please; Uno Jang, creative director of Singapore’s Jigger & Pony and winner of this year’s Bartenders’ Bartender title; Renato “Tato” Giovannoni, founder of Florería Atlántico in Buenos Aires; and pioneering American female bartender Lynnette Marrero.

October 5, 5pm-8pm; Gokan, 30 Ice House Street, Central

Jean-Pierre

Gustave, by Bar Nouveau. Photo: Bar Nouveau

Get blinded by the City of Light as drinks sponsors St-Germain, Patrón and Grey Goose bring a trifecta of Paris’ best bars into French restaurant Jean-Pierre. Featuring Danico, The Cambridge Public House and Bar Nouveau – all of which ranked in the World’s 50 Best Bars 2024 – this shift is bound to instil, in more than a few ways, the French spirit.

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