Cassio Named Its Tables After House DJs and Put a Daft Punk Designer in Charge of the Room

Cassio is the club in Lan Kwai Fong that behaves like a design project. It sits on the second floor of LKF Tower at 33 Wyndham Street, it opened in late 2016, and in 2021 it was rebuilt by the former creative director of Daft Punk. Its logo is a mermaid drawn by a Japanese illustrator. There is a Marco Brambilla video artwork hanging over one of the bars. The tables are named after house DJs instead of numbers. And the music it plays, house and Afrohouse from early in the evening, is where a lot of global club music actually sits in 2026.

The short version is that someone spent a serious art budget on a club on the second floor of an office tower, nine years ago, and then kept it current. That is rare in a district that rebuilds its rooms every couple of years, and it is the reason Cassio is worth writing about: not because it is the loudest room in Lan Kwai Fong, but because it is the most considered one.

What is Cassio, and why does it feel like a gallery that serves drinks?

Because that is close to what it is. When Cassio was redesigned in 2021, the brief went to Hervet Manufacturier, a Paris furniture house run by two cousins, one of whom, Cedric Hervet, spent over fifteen years as Daft Punk's creative director, working on album artwork and the stage sets, including the 2014 Grammys. He built Cassio's furniture, lighting and DJ booth from scratch, and described the booth as a spaceship that landed on the dancefloor. The palette is deliberately retro-futuristic: walnut wood, turquoise velvet and hairline brass, a mid-century look the owner sums up as something so uncool that it is cool.

The detail that gives the room away is the tables. They are not numbered; they are named after house music's architects, Little Louie Vega and Tony Humphries among them, and there is a VVIP table that opens onto a hidden bar reached by a one-time password that changes for each guest. Around the room are illustrations of Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Gang Starr, and above one of the bars hangs Evolution, a digital video work by the Canadian artist Marco Brambilla, made for the club. None of this is an accident, and most of Hong Kong's culture press has never mentioned any of it.

Who runs Cassio, and what is its connection to Dragon-i?

The owner is Gilbert Yeung, one of the best-known figures in Hong Kong nightlife, who also runs Dragon-i and Tazmania Ballroom. That matters because Cassio and Dragon-i are, in a real sense, one house with two very different rooms. The turquoise velvet and brass that define Cassio turn up again in Dragon-i's 2026 rebuild, a house signature carried across two venues a few hundred metres apart on and around Wyndham Street. Yeung's approach to the room is unusually watchful, the manner of someone who treats a club as a design problem that is never quite finished, and who pays attention to where in a room people actually choose to stand.

The point of the design is not spectacle for its own sake but a room you can spend a long evening in. Cassio describes itself as a members' club, though in practice its character comes from its programming and its crowd rather than from a membership card. Booking ahead through its Mandos page is the simplest way to plan a night here.

What does Cassio play, and who has been on the decks?

House and Afrohouse, and it is the one room in this part of town building a night specifically around Afrohouse, which is where a lot of global club music has moved in 2026. The floor opens early, from six in the evening on its main nights, which makes Cassio a rare thing in Lan Kwai Fong: a club you can start at rather than end at. The bookings have been serious. The German house producer Henrik Schwarz played the room in September 2026, and the SuNKeN collective has run nights and guest bookings here, including a New Year's countdown with Nico de Andrea. During festival season, Cassio has presented its own ROBOT events around Clockenflap.

What that adds up to is a room programmed for people who care about the specific record, not just the night out. An early start, a floor built on house and Afrohouse, and a booking policy that reaches for proper names rather than the loudest ones. If you want to understand where grown-up house lives in Lan Kwai Fong, this is the address.

A club on the second floor of an office tower, with a Daft Punk designer's room and a museum-grade video work over the bar, that almost nobody writes about.

How do you plan a night at Cassio?

Go early and go for the music. The main nights run Wednesday and Thursday from six until two, and Friday and Saturday from six until four, though the programme changes week to week, so check what is on before you go. Cassio takes bookings through its own channels, and you can find the room, see what is coming up and plan around it through its Mandos page, the simplest place to see it in one view. It sits in the thick of Lan Kwai Fong, so it slots naturally into a bigger night in the district, and because the floor can run to four in the morning, sort out how you are getting home before you go: our guide to getting around Hong Kong after dark has the night-bus and taxi options.

And if you are the kind of person who likes knowing the room before you are in it, Cassio rewards that more than almost anywhere in Lan Kwai Fong. The mermaid, the named tables, the Brambilla, the hidden bar: it is a room that was designed to be read, by someone who has been reading Hong Kong's dancefloors for a very long time.

If you only do one thing at Cassio, go at six on a weeknight, before the district wakes up, and spend the first hour just looking at the room. And if the group chat wants somewhere that is a proper night out and an actual design object at the same time, this is the one to send them.