At US$230 a glass, it’s the most expensive cocktail in Hong Kong. Is the Sazerac from the Regent hotel’s Qura Bar worth the money?
- Hong Kong is no stranger to super-expensive food and drinks: a US$1,400 dinner, a US$141,000 truffle and numerous high-end wines and Cognacs
- The newly opened Qura Bar in the Regent Hong Kong hotel is selling a Sazerac cocktail for an eye-watering US$230, and we at the Post just had to try it
Hongkongers rarely get sticker shock when it comes to expensive items. After all, we paid the record price for a 1kg white truffle – US$141,000. Gaddi’s, in The Peninsula Hong Kong, held a dinner in 2021 priced at HK$10,888 (US$1,400) per person.
Now Qura Bar, newly opened at the Regent Hong Kong hotel, is selling a cocktail that costs HK$1,800 per glass.
It also has a number of high-end wines available by the glass, such as 2012 Château Figeac, a Saint-Émilion Bordeaux, at HK$580 a go.
Vintage cocktails on the bar’s menu start at HK$1,250 for a Negroni and go up to the Sazerac, at HK$1,800 the most expensive.
Dating back to 1838, the Sazerac cocktail was trademarked by the Sazerac Company in 1900. Antoine Amédée Peychaud, a pharmacist from Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), is credited with its creation.