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Bar Leone, Mius and eight other Hong Kong bars carried the city through the region's biggest cocktail list this July. Two of the names on it opened in the same twelve months Hong Kong's own bar receipts fell four percent. Both numbers are real.
Bar Leone Is the World's Best Bar 2025 — Hong Kong's First Global No. 1
Behind a low arched doorway on Bridges Street, named for the lion that guards Rome, Bar Leone just became the first Hong Kong bar to top the World's 50 Best Bars list — and it isn't winning alone.
Kai Tak Sold 1.25 Million Tickets in Its First Year. The Interesting Number Is What Happens After the Last Song.
Coldplay played four nights at Kai Tak Stadium in April 2025 and put 200,000 people through the gates in a single week. The venue finished its debut year third in the world for ticket sales. The number worth asking about isn't the one Pollstar published — it's what 50,000 people do with the rest of their night once the last song ends.
Stanley Street, Central, Now Has Two Cold-Plunge Clubs
The Ice Bath Club's new Stanley Street site has sold out all three of its founding memberships before opening — and it isn't alone on the block. Recovery has become a going-out category in Hong Kong, and it's drawing the same crowd as the night before.
Hong Kong's spirits-duty cut moved 20% more liquor into the city — but not into your glass
Since October 2024 the duty on premium spirits fell from 100% to 10%. Import volumes are up more than 20% and their value has nearly doubled — yet bar receipts still fell. Here's the gap between the trade story and the drink in your hand.