Upper Hong Kong Is a Bangkok Group's First Room Outside Thailand, Eight Floors Up in Lan Kwai Fong

Upper Hong Kong is the first room the people behind some of Bangkok's busiest nightclubs have opened outside Thailand. It sits on the 8th floor of California Tower on D'Aguilar Street, in the middle of Lan Kwai Fong, and it opened with a soft launch over four nights at the end of June 2026. The short version: a confident Bangkok nightlife group looked at every city in Asia and chose Hong Kong, and chose the loudest street in it.

What makes it worth a look is not a gimmick in the room. It is the group behind it, and the way it arrived. Most new Lan Kwai Fong venues are local operators trying something; Upper is an export, a brand with a track record in another country planting its flag here. That is rare, and it tells you something about where operators think the money is going.

Where did Upper come from?

From a group that has opened a new venue roughly every six to twelve months in Bangkok. Its own sites describe a Savoy Family that gathers Upper House, Baccarat and House of Savoy, alongside the 24BLVD complex, with the corporate paperwork pointing back to Davis Corporation. Baccarat landed around the end of 2023; the 24BLVD complex and Upper House followed through 2025; House of Savoy opened in June 2026, within weeks of the Hong Kong launch. Read the cadence and you get a group in fast, deliberate expansion, and Hong Kong is the first step out of its home country.

One thing does carry across every room the group runs, and it is worth knowing before you go: the look. Red light, warm and dim, interiors built to photograph well. A Time Out writer described one of the group's Bangkok rooms as having an aesthetic built for the camera, which is the whole design thesis in six words. Expect a space that cares as much about how it reads on a phone as how it sounds, because that is what this group makes, in city after city, with a confidence most new rooms do not have.

There is one more thing worth knowing about the group, because it shapes everything you can and cannot find out about Upper: it operates without a public face. Across the English and Thai coverage of every venue it runs, there is no named founder and no owner interview. That is not an oversight. It is a house style, and it means the story of Upper is the rooms and the crowd, not a personality.

Why does the 8th floor matter?

Because Lan Kwai Fong is not a strip of doors on a street. It is a set of towers, and the night runs up them. California Tower, where Upper sits, is one of the clearest examples: a single lift core serving floor after floor of bars and clubs, with FAYY up on the 25th and 26th. You do not walk past Upper; you choose it and ride up to it. That changes who comes through the door. A tower venue is a destination, not a place you stumble into, and the whole room is built on the assumption that you meant to be there.

You do not walk past an 8th-floor club. You choose it and ride up to it.

What is the cherry about?

In Bangkok, the group's flagship leans hard on a single image: a cherry. It runs through the venue's name, its taglines and its signage, red cherry lamps and all, with the group never once explaining what it means. It is pure suggestion layered on the old "cherry on top" line, and it has done the job a good nightlife symbol is supposed to do, which is travel further than any advert. Whether the Hong Kong room carries the cherry at all, Upper has not said, so treat it as part of the brand's story rather than a promise about the night you will walk into.

What is not public yet?

More than you would expect for a venue this visible. Upper does not publish a resident-DJ roster or a set of named weekly nights, which is unusual for a club of this profile and worth saying plainly rather than inventing around. The music policy for the Hong Kong room, the dress code and the table minimums are not stated anywhere we can stand behind, so we are not going to guess at them. What we can tell you is that the room is open and ticketed, that its event listings show a Wednesday-to-Saturday week, and that the fastest honest way to see what is on is to check its page the week you want to go.

The most telling thing about Upper landing in Hong Kong is not the room; it is how you get into it. In Bangkok, the group runs a deliberately friction-heavy door: no online booking, tables arranged by direct message, a scarcity the whole brand leans on. In Hong Kong, Upper is ticketed, and you can book it through Mandos in a couple of taps. A group that chose friction everywhere else has, here, one of the simpler rooms in Lan Kwai Fong to lock in before you leave the house. That is not a small change in a city where the best nights are decided in a group chat at six.

How should you plan a night at Upper?

Eat first, in Central or SoHo, then walk down into Lan Kwai Fong once the street fills, which is late. Book ahead through Mandos rather than trusting the door on a busy night, and because an 8th-floor club runs well past the last train, sort out how you are getting home before you go up. It is a tower night, so it rewards a plan more than a wander.

A practical note on the building. California Tower runs a single lift bank for a stack of venues, and on a Friday or Saturday that lift, not the door, is the bottleneck. Go earlier than the peak if you can, or be ready to queue for the ride up. Once you are in, you are committed to the floor for the night, which is the trade a tower venue asks for: less wandering, and more of one room done properly.

If you only do one thing tonight: check Upper's page for the week and book ahead, because a tower club on a busy Lan Kwai Fong night is not a door you want to argue with. And if someone in the group chat keeps calling it Upper House, send them this and save everyone the trip to Admiralty.