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HONG KONG & SINGAPORE BIGGEST WINNERS IN ASIA’S 50 BEST BARS AWARDS 2024
By Siulan Law Mathews DipWSET
22-7-2024
Source: Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2024
Hong Kong and Singapore are the two biggest winners in Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2024 Awards. Hong Kong’s Bar Leone tops this year’s chart, while Singapore has the most bars making to the top 50.
This year’s winning list comprises bars spanning 18 different cities across Asia. Singapore leads with eleven venues, followed by Hong Kong with nine, while South Korea and Japan tied with five venues on the list.
This year’s winner Bar Leone’s founder Lorenzo Antinori said: “It’s an insane feeling. We opened the bar just over a year ago, and we’re just 10 people that decided to pursue this dream. We didn’t expect it – there are some amazing bars and colleagues out there – and we’re just very grateful to be part of this community.”
Apart from Bar Leone, eight more Hong Kong bars have made to top 50. They are Coa at No.4, Argo No.9, The Aubrey at 10th place, DarkSide at 17, The Savory Project at 19, Penicillin 24 and Mostly Harmless at 45.
Taking second place on the list is zero-waste bar Zest in Seoul, whose Dohyung ‘Demie’ Kim also won the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award.
At No. 3 is Singapore’s Jigger & Pony. The city state has eleven bars on the top 50 list, including Nutmeg & Clove at No.6 and Night Hawk at 16.
Last week’s award ceremony returned to Hong Kong for the second year in a row. This year also marked the first of a three-year partnership between Asia's 50 Best Bars with Hong Kong Tourism Board, meaning that the event will also be held in the Asia financial hub in the next two years.
The winners list for 2024 was curated by an academy of 265 members comprising industry leaders, writers, educators, journalists, bartenders and bar owners.
The full list of Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2024:
1. Bar Leone, Hong Kong
2. Zest, Seoul
3. Jigger & Pony, Singapore
4. Coa, Hong Kong
5. Bar Benfiddich, Tokyo
6. Nutmeg & Clove, Singapore
7. BKK Social Club, Bangkok
8. Penrose, Kuala Lumpur
9. Argo, Hong Kong
10. The Aubrey, Hong Kong
11. Virtù, Tokyo
12. The Cocktail Club, Jakarta
13. Vesper, Bangkok
14. Hope & Sesame, Guangzhou
15. Sago House, Singapore
16. Night Hawk, Singapore
17. Darkside, Hong Kong
18. Mahaniyom Cocktail Bar, Bangkok
19. The Savory Project, Hong Kong
20. Bar Cham, Seoul
21. Bar US, Bangkok
22. The St. Regis Bar, Macau
23. The SG Club, Tokyo
24. Penicillin, Hong Kong
25. Offtrack, Singapore
26. Quinary, Hong Kong
27. Pantja, Jakarta
28. Craftroom, Osaka
29. Smoke & Bitters, Hiriketiya
30. Vender, Taichung
31. Native, Singapore
32. Origin Bar, Singapore
33. The Curator, Manila
34. The Bellwood, Tokyo
35. Analogy Initiative, Singapore
36. Bar Trigona, Kuala Lumpur
37. Bar Mood, Taipei
38. Employees Only, Singapore
39. Barc, Kathmandu
40. ZLB23, Bengaluru
41. Reka, Kuala Lumpur
42. Fura, Singapore
43. CMYK, Changsha
44. The Public House, Taipei
45. Mostly Harmless, Hong Kong
46. Alice, Seoul
47. The Haflington, Hanoi
48. Le Chamber, Seoul
49. Atlas, Singapore
50. Pine & Co, Seoul
(the writer can be contacted at: info@thewinechronicle.com)
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