Mandos News archive
Every story we have published, month by month.
November 2026
15 stories- 12 NovBIGBANG Plays Four Kai Tak Shows This Weekend, and the Night Does Not End at the Stadium
- 12 NovCassio Named Its Tables After House DJs and Put a Daft Punk Designer in Charge of the Room
- 11 NovVersus Rents Its Two D'Aguilar Street Rooms to Whoever Has the Crowd
- 11 NovHong Kong Gen Z Hold HK$50 Billion a Year, and on Singles' Day They Are Buying the Night, Not the Haul
- 10 NovBar Leone's Team Opens Bar Camillo at Rosewood Hong Kong on 25 November
- 10 NovFAYY Is a Nelson Chow Rooftop Club With a Carousel, 25 Floors Above Lan Kwai Fong
- 9 NovHong Kong Bar Receipts Grew 1% in Q3 2026, Their First Rise After Two Falling Quarters
- 9 NovSpace Club Is the Wyndham Street Room That Ranked 69th in the World in 2026
- 8 Novdragon-i Reopened in 2026 With a Members' Room Named 115 After Its Owner's Favourite Tempo
- 8 NovHong Kong Gourmet Month Puts 400 Restaurants and a HK$399 Cocktail Pass on the Table This November
- 7 NovUpper Hong Kong Is a Bangkok Group's First Room Outside Thailand, Eight Floors Up in Lan Kwai Fong
- 7 NovMau P Plays His First Hong Kong Set on 18 December, Under the Kwun Tong Bridge
- 7 NovBoomerang Opened on Halloween 2020 in an Old Hard Rock Cafe. Six Years Later It Is the World's No. 32 Club
- 6 NovHong Kong's Most-Anticipated November 2026 Bar Opens on 25 November: Four Others Are Already Open
- 6 NovKai Tak Runs Six Concert Nights From 13 November to New Year's Day
October 2026
3 stories- 30 OctHalloween is on a Saturday this year — the Hong Kong parties worth booking before you leave the house
- 1 OctDavid Guetta's sixth No. 1 is a Top 100 record — and Hong Kong's two clubs both climbed
- 1 OctTwo Halloween Saturdays have already run in Lan Kwai Fong — here is what they tell you about Saturday night
August 2026
46 stories- 16 AugHong Kong's Drinking Fell 22% — the Global Gen Z Story Doesn't Explain Why
- 16 AugHong Kong Clubs Don't Really Get Going Until After Midnight
- 16 AugWhere Hong Kong's After-Work Crowd Actually Drinks, Six to Eight
- 16 AugHong Kong Put Ten Bars On Asia's 50 Best 2026 — Two Weren't Open A Year Earlier
- 16 AugEight Is Hong Kong's Hardest Group Size to Book — Here's How the Night Actually Works
- 16 AugHow Hong Kong Actually Hosts a Business Dinner, and Why the Host Always Pays
- 16 AugDay Trips From Hong Kong: The Islands and the Green Side
- 16 AugHow Hong Kong Club Guest Lists, Queues and the Door Actually Work
- 16 AugEight Kitchens Hong Kong Keeps Running Past Midnight
- 16 AugHong Kong Now Has Seven Bars in Asia's Top 50; Singapore Has Four
- 16 AugHong Kong's Best Views, and the Right Hour for Each One
- 16 AugHong Kong Clubbing Runs on Two Streets and a HK$5,000 Table Minimum
- 16 AugHong Kong's Dress Codes Aren't Written Down — Except at the Members' Clubs
- 16 AugHong Kong's Japanese Bar Scene Runs From an Ice House to a Jazz Kissa
- 16 AugFive Cold-Water Clubs Have Turned Recovery Into Hong Kong's Newest Night Out
- 16 AugNatural Wine in Hong Kong: How a Niche Became a Night Out
- 15 AugHong Kong's Craft Beer Scene Runs on Seven Working Breweries, Almost None of Them Open to the Public
- 15 AugHong Kong's Best Karaoke Nights Are No Longer Happening Inside the KTV Chains
- 15 AugThe new bars and restaurants worth knowing in Hong Kong right now — August 2026
- 15 AugHong Kong's Award Bars Are Building Real Zero-Proof Menus Now
- 15 AugSix Places Hong Kong Actually Keeps Open Past 2am
- 15 AugBar Leone Is the World's Best Bar 2025 — Hong Kong's First Global No. 1
- 15 AugSeven Hong Kong bars made Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026 — here's what each room actually does
- 15 AugA Table Minimum Buys Floor Space and a Bypassed Queue — Never a Discount
- 15 AugHong Kong Held Asia's Top Bar Spot for Five Years Running, Then Won the World's
- 15 AugThree Hong Kong Concert Venues, Three Different Roads to a Last Drink
- 15 AugFour Central Bars for Four Kinds of Date
- 15 AugHow Hong Kong Club Door Pricing Actually Works
- 15 AugHong Kong drinks 22% less than it did in 2017 — and its bars have never ranked higher
- 15 AugKai Tak Sports Park Sold 1.25 Million Tickets in Its First Year
- 15 AugA First Night In Hong Kong Runs Harbour To Lan Kwai Fong, In Four Stops Before The 1am Last Train
- 15 AugHong Kong's MTR Runs on Octopus and Stops Near 1am
- 15 AugBuy-One-Get-One and Half-Price Aren't the Same Happy Hour Deal
- 15 AugHong Kong on a Budget: The Free Views and HK$3 Rides That Do Most of the Work
- 15 AugTwo days in Hong Kong, built around a bar that won't take a reservation
- 15 AugKai Tak Sold 1.25 Million Tickets in Its First Year. The Interesting Number Is What Happens After the Last Song.
- 15 AugHong Kong Still Has Four Rooms Booking a Band, Not a DJ
- 15 AugHong Kong's Social Life Now Starts at a Run Club, Not a Bar
- 15 AugHong Kong Reaches 77 Michelin-Starred Restaurants in 2026, Up From 76
- 15 AugHong Kong Lost a Tenth of Its Bars in 2025. The Survivors Are Smaller.
- 15 AugStanley Street, Central, Now Has Two Cold-Plunge Clubs
- 15 AugHong Kong's Rooftop Bars, From the 118th Floor Down
- 15 AugHong Kong's spirits-duty cut moved 20% more liquor into the city — but not into your glass
- 15 AugWhat to Do in Hong Kong: A Local's Route Across the Harbour
- 15 AugHong Kong's Visitors Are Spending Less on Shopping, More on Culture
- 15 AugThree Recovery Clubs Now Take Walk-Ins Across Kennedy Town, Central and Causeway Bay