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BOTTOMS UP Celebrate the winners of the Hong Kong Living Bar Awards. By Melaine Cox.

Our sister magazine Hong Kong Living lauched the first Hong Kong Living Bar Awards this month, celebrating the city’s most outstanding venues and the extraordinary talent that brings them to life night after night.

Here are some of the highlights, for the full list of winners visit hongkongliving.com Bar of the Year

The Old Man

The Old Man needs no introduction. A stylish, intimate, Ernest Hemingway–inspired bar tucked away in Soho, serves up some of the most scholarly devotion to liqueurs and a steely focus on service. A scholarly devotion to liqueurs and a steely focus on service has led to, a series of accolades under their belt since the opening in 2017 by Agung Prabowo, Roman Ghale and James Tamang in the summer of 2017, it is no wonder our readers chose The Old Man as their favourite bar of the year.

Photo: The Old Man Bartender of the Year

Lorenzo Antinori, Four Seasons

As the Beverage Manager, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong and Beverage Ambassador, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific, Antinori attributes humble beginnings with a hard work mentality that brought him to the cities of Asia, as his recipe for success.

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Nightclub of the Year

Dragon-i

Arguably Hong Kong’s most iconic and longstanding night club, Dragon-i is the place to see and be seen, rubbing elbows with celebrities, models and the glitterati alike. With a discerning door policy that reflects its celebrity-heavy clientele, Dragon-i parties are unparalleled to none other in Hong Kong thanks to some of biggest celebrities on the planet gracing owner Gilbert Yeung’s notorious guest list of friends that include Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Paris Hilton.

dragon-i.com.hk

Best Hotel Bar

Darkside, Rosewood Hong Kong

Our readers have a taste for the finer things in life with the crowning glory of the glitzy Rosewood Hong Kong, Darkside taking top picks for Best Hotel Bar. Darkside offers one of the best bar experiences in town, complete with sultry live jazz performances and glimpses of the stunning Victoria Harbour. The name of the game here is dark, rare aged spirits. The bar stocks vintage cognac aged from oak barrels and a selection of rum, whisky and calvados that span back to the early 19th Century.

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Nibbles

Dim Sum Library two

Aqua Restaurant Group has opened its second Dim Sum Library restaurant nestled within Elements Mall. Guests will find a host of new dishes at the West Kowloon location including pan-fried Sichuan cod bao, lobster dumpling with Tianqi herbs and pan-fried Chinese yam cake. What’s more, the Cantonese restaurant is celebrating the opening of its second outpost with four new xiao long bao flavours. Available until September 20, the limited edition flavours include Sichuan chilli, beef brisket, Singaporean-inspired bak kut teh and kombu and bonita. Shop 1028B, Water, Elements, 1 Austin Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.

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Best Rooftop Bar

Terrible Baby

Terrible Baby is so much more than your standard hotel bar. It has become the go-to destination in Kowloon to catch live music, international DJ’s and an enticing repertoire of sustainable cocktails with unique names such as “let’s go for one bruh” and “Ginie, not in the bottle” playing homage to its vibrant neighbourhood in Jordan. This is the bar to checkout for those who wish to have a refreshing change of scenery from their usual waterholes in the city. With a performing space, rooftop garden, and music room on the fourth floor of Eaton Hong Kong, this rooftop bar lives up to its quirky name translated from the French phrase ‘enfant terrible’, an expression used in the world of creative arts to describe a usually young and successful person who is strikingly unorthodox or avant-garde. terriblebaby.com

Best Pub

The Globe

Hong Kong original gastropub is a definite crowd pleaser. Taking the Best Pub award with its great service, value for buck and perhaps serving the best pie in Hong Kong. The Globe is Hong Kong’s response to the many gastropubs in London with a warming environment and wholesome pub grub menu alongside a wide

St. Barts takeaway

The Clearwater Bay based restaurant is offering a special takeaway promotion this month from 6-9:30pm. Diners can enjoy 10 percent off any order over $440 or 20 percent off when they spend $600. For those who spend over $800 a bottle of wine will be thrown in for free. Shop 1 on G/F, Retail Block of Mount Pavilia 663, Clearwater Bay Road.

casteloconcepts.com Thai Dao summer specials

Beachside restaurant Thai Dao has released some limited edition summer specials, including Lobsters Tom Yum Soup and Thaistyle Grilled pork. Wash it all down with a refreshing milk foam peach tea. G/F, 9 Sha Ha Village, Tai Mong Tsai Road, Sai Kung. selection of ales and lagers from around the world. Tucked away on Graham Street, this pub is the place to go for British fair since its opening over 15 years ago. theglobe.com.hk

Best Interior Design

Iron Fairies

Straight out of a (literal) storybook, designer Ashley Sutton’s joint venture with Dining Concepts “The Iron Fairies” transports us to a fantastical world. Step out of Hollywood Road and into Iron Fairies for a journey to fantasy land far far away where 10,000 butterflies on thin copper rods swing from the ceiling and thousands of small iron fairies are scattered around the tables. Expect live jazz and swing bands served alongside creative cocktails by mixologist Joseph

Boroski. diningconcepts.com

War-time cocktails at Red Sugar

Travel back in time with Red Sugar’s new cocktail menu ‘Our Little Time’, which showcases a collection of concoctions inspired by the post-war era of Hong Kong. Kerry Hotel’s popular rooftop bar has launched 11 new cocktails, all presenting key elements from the 60s to 80s. The terrace bar, overlooking the Victoria Harbour, has also just launched a new Sundown Sessions available every Saturday and Sunday for two hours of free-flow bevvies and tapas. Level 7, Kerry Hotel, 38 Hung Luen Road, Hung Hom. shangri-la.com SAI KUNG 29