Lan Kwai Fong bar-restaurant Lily & Bloom closing after eight years of ‘creative cocktail concoctions & heart-warming meals’

Bar-restaurant known for its creative cocktails and American fare had runs its course, spokesman says of decision not to renew lease or relocate. A message announcing ‘last call’ next month thanks customers for making Lily & Bloom ‘a sanctuary of late night laughs & after hours dancing’

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Lily & Bloom is in LKF Tower at the top of Lan Kwai Fong.

Published: 11:20am, 24 Aug 2018Updated: 3:19pm, 24 Aug 2018

Lily & Bloom, a well known bar and restaurant serving hearty American fare and imaginative cocktails above Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong Island’s premier nightlife haunt, is closing after eight years. It will shut in mid-September, its owners having decided not to renew their lease or seek new premises.

The announcement was made on Thursday night via Instagram and WhatsApp messages, which invited customers to come for a “last call” at Lily & Bloom.

Lily & Bloom’s announcement

“We sincerely thank all of you for making this place a sanctuary of creative cocktail concoctions & heart-warming meals, late night laughs & after hours dancing, a home away from home & nights all LIT,” the messages said.

Executive chef Chris Grare had only joined Lily & Bloom in February 2017; he was previously at Cafe Gray Deluxe and upscale steakhouse The American Club. Head mixologist John Nugent began working at the bar and restaurant last May.

Executive chef Chris Grare at Lily and Bloom, which will close in September.

Francisco Ricafort, PR and marketing director for Buzz Concepts, the company behind Lily & Bloom, said the bar and restaurant had run its course. He has fond memories from a few years ago when Bloom, on one floor of the two-storey establishment, was turned into a late-night room.