The Most Beautiful Bars in Hong Kong

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The luxurious SEVVA restaurant and bar, located at the top of the Prince’s Building, has a 1,208-square-metre (13,000-square-foot) roof terrace where you can enjoy mesmerising views of the city skyline, the Bank of China Tower and the shimmering Victoria Harbour. A good spot for watching A Symphony of Lights show, which takes place every night at 8pm, SEVVA is the perfect place to have a night out with sangrias, pretty cakes and Asian-inspired tapas.

Inspired by the legendary American author Ernest Hemingway and named after his classic novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952), The Old Man is a bar that takes its design cues from Hemingway’s life, work and love of travel. Furnished with elegant wood and muted greens and pinks, this charming bar is a cosy place to savour signature cocktails such as The Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises, named after Hemingway’s famous novels from 1964 and 1926, respectively.

Sip on exotic cocktails such as Forbidden Rose – a concoction of vanilla-infused Macchu Pisco, passion fruit, lychee, chilli, lemon and egg white – in a former basement bank vault in the Central District. Designed by award-winning Hong Kong interior designer Joyce Wang, the bar at modern Chinese restaurant Mott 32 marries Chinese imperial details with contemporary New York industrial aesthetics with panache.

Occupying the outdoor terrace next to Spiga Italian restaurant on Queen’s Road Central, PORTICO is an al fresco bar surrounded by views of the tall office buildings of Hong Kong’s central business district. Decked out in ’60s-style basketwork hanging chairs and low banquettes, PORTICO is the go-to spot for the city’s smartly attired professionals, and where you’ll find a good selection of quality grappas and amaros.

The Ritz-Carlton’s OZONE rooftop bar is located on the 118th floor of Hong Kong’s tallest building – the International Commerce Centre – and is one of the best places to take in stunning views of the Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island from Kowloon. Designed by Japanese interior design firm Wonderwall, the bar’s diamond-like banquettes and stools, honeycomb-pattern floor and feature ceiling create a glamorous, futuristic setting where you can relax and enjoy a cocktail. Try the heady HK Skyline – a cocktail of 23-year-old Zacapa, absinthe, oolong tea syrup, pink grapefruit and lime juice, Dom Perignon foam, lavender smoke and chocolate stones.

Another bar designed by Ashley Sutton, the enchanting Iron Fairies offers live music, comfort food and innovative cocktails such as Smoke in a Bottle made with house-infused blueberry vodka, elderflower liqueur, sage cordial, lemon juice and crème de cassis with smoked cocoa nibs. Inspired by Sutton’s experience with the iron ore mines of Western Australia, this bar is fitted out with hand-hewn timber, raw iron, brick and leather to resemble a blacksmith’s workshop. Look out for the 10,000 preserved butterflies suspended on slender copper rods from the ceiling.

This article is an updated version of a story created by Wing Tung Isabella Yu.