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5 art-inspired menus to indulge in during Hong Kong’s Art Month

The city’s chefs and mixologists add to March’s colours with masterpieces like Banksy-style desserts, a Van Gogh highball and Warhol Wagyu

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Six Hong Kong outlets are celebrating Art Month with special offerings, such as this roasted quail dish at Akira Back. Photo: Handout
Grace Brewer

As Hong Kong’s Art Month pulses through March, the city’s F&B scene is responding with inventive menus and experiences that fuse culinary craft with cultural inspiration – from artist‑themed tasting menus and hand‑painted tea pairings to interactive dinners and cocktail galleries.

These art-infused highlights, spanning Central’s bar streets to landmark hotel lounges, offer the city’s foodies fresh ways to sip, savour and celebrate the creative zeitgeist this month.

Aberdeen Street’s Cultural Corridor

The Old Man’s The Scream: Edvard Munch cocktail. Photo: Handout
The Old Man’s The Scream: Edvard Munch cocktail. Photo: Handout

For an Art Month night that reads like a three-act play, Aberdeen Street’s new Cultural Corridor strings together literature, music and visual art in liquid form. Start at The Old Man, where the legendary bar returns to its storytelling roots with the Relations cocktail menu. Move uphill to Aer, now an audiophile restobar where a quadraphonic sound system sets the mood for diner-inspired plates.

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Finish at Dead Poets, a barbershop by day, “liquid gallery” by night, where the new Liquid Gallery v4: Dead Painters menu turns art history into drinks, from a Van Gogh sunflower highball with gin, absinthe and sunflower-seed cordial to Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s highball, a tongue-in-cheek mix of Jack Daniel’s, clarified Coke, tomato and strawberry syrup and Seedlip Garden.

Afternoon tea at The Clipper Lounge

The Clipper Lounge’s Saicho afternoon tea is a collaboration with illustrator Rebecca Lin. Photo: Handout
The Clipper Lounge’s Saicho afternoon tea is a collaboration with illustrator Rebecca Lin. Photo: Handout
Take a pause from March madness and swap wine for bubbles of a different kind at Clipper Lounge’s Saicho afternoon tea, which pairs sparkling tea with limited edition art you can take home.
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