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Wine and Spirits

Wine and Spirits
News and trends in luxury wine and spirits
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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword. Here’s how Hong Kong’s fine dining is improving its green policies: from Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental and Michelin-starred Mono to Vicky Lau’s Mora, Roganic and the Marriott group. Photo: Ting Lung Heen

How Hong Kong’s fine dining scene is getting greener – at last

The staff of Socio at the the 100 Top Tables Tables 2025 Unveiling Ceremony and Awards. Photo: Jordan Chan

Celebrating 100 Top Tables’ top restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and Macau

Bar Leone co-founder Lorenzo Antinori. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Why neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong are gaining popularity

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China approves world’s biggest amphibious plane, AG600, for mass production

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Diplomacy

China to remove tariffs on nearly all goods from Africa as both criticise US

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Y reads a letter from President Xi Jinping to a FOCAC meeting in Changsha on Wednesday. Representatives of China, 53 African countries and the African Union Commission attended the meeting. Photo: Xinhua

Politics

1 survivor found in Air India flight AI171 crash that killed more than 240

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Debris of a plane that crashed in the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad, in Gujarat state on Thursday. Photo: X / Central Industrial Security Force / AP

Entertainment

Meet Liam Neeson’s sons, actor Micheál and entrepreneur Daniel

Liam Neeson has a close relationship with his two sons, Micheál Richardson and Daniel Neeson. Photos: @bgdans91/Instagram

Science

China’s J-20 stealth fighter’s radar leap credited to semiconductor scientist Xu Xiangang

The J-20, also known as the Mighty Dragon, is a twin-engine stealth fighter viewed as China’s answer to America’s F-22 “Raptor”. Photo: Handout
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What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend June 13-15

From a music festival to a fashion pop-up to a sound therapy course to sipping wine paired with music, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 13-15

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 13-15

China manufacturing

Baijiu blues and plum pickings: tastes of China’s Gen Z rewrite liquor industry

Young Chinese are driving a shift from the traditional white spirit to fruity, lower-alcohol beverages, in a sign of as evolving lifestyles.

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The Jiangji Distillery is a brewing base for Chinese liquor, located in Baisha town, Chongqing. Photo: Handout
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend June 6-8

From the ultimate celebration of cocktails to ballet, Thai massage and a Lane Crawford pop-up, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 6-8

From fresh takes on classic sips at C108 to can’t-miss guest shifts at Bar Leone and The Aubrey, here’s where to drink this Friday to Sunday.

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Luxury travel

Visiting Venice for the biennale? Here’s how to avoid the tourist traps

From dazzling displays of design, art and architecture, to the best cicchetti spots and a characterful boutique hotel with Venetian Lagoon views, this is how to do the Biennale in style.

A view of Venice’s Grand Canal from Ca’ di Dio. Photo: @cadidio_/Instgram
Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Redemption at Orchard

The Hong Kong bar’s take on the negroni uses prune brandy to accent notes of strawberry, chocolate and hazelnut.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend May 31-June 1

From a celebration of artisan Korean liquors to Wes Anderson’s latest film The Phoenician Scheme, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 30 – June 1

Bid farewell to Stockton, enjoy the Hong Kong Whisky Festival, and celebrate The Savory Project’s anniversary with Native’s unique cocktails.

One of Hong Kong’s original speakeasies, Stockton on Wyndham Street is closing at the end of May after 12 years. Photo: Thomas Yau
Food and Drinks

The Japanese distilleries fuelling craft gin’s ‘unstoppable’ rise

In Japan, distillers are making gin with home-grown ingredients as the spirit gains fans. Could it rival whisky and shochu’s popularity?

Togedama craft gin by Matsuzaki Co. distillery. Photo: Instagram/theweekendph
Asia travel

Nashik, India’s answer to Napa Valley, becomes a tourist draw

Near Mumbai, Nashik’s award-winning vineyards and holy sites draw visitors after something beyond the Taj Mahal as Indian wine tourism booms.

Food and Drinks

Tokyo bartender’s graffiti-themed cocktails inspired by his travels

Hideyuki Saito conjured memories of ‘incredible’ street art for the cocktails on his new menu at Tokyo Edition Toranomon hotel’s Gold Bar.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 23-25

Drinks on a rooftop in Kai Tak, award-winning brews from Chicago, and a dive bar from Orchard’s Alex Pun.

Bar Oasis is a new dive bar from Orchard’s Alex Pun. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

From ‘world’s best pizza’ to cocktail making, bartender’s TV tour of Japan

Mr Lyan’s Taste Trips explores the food and drink scene in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo in its first episode, and host creates a Japanese cocktail.

British bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana, also known as Mr Lyan, is presenter of the series Mr Lyan’s Taste Trips. Here he enjoys a nightcap in Tokyo in the show’s first episode, devoted to Japan. Photo: Mr Lyan’s Taste Trips
Food and Drinks

Language Matters | How whisky took its name from the Gaelic ‘water of life’

‘Whiskie shall put our brains in rage’, a phrase in a 1715 book, marked the first appearance in English of the term for the distilled drink.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend May 16-18

A gin extravaganza at PMQ, a talk about ageing well followed by a run or walk, opera, and a luxury handbag pop-up await you this weekend.

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Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Smoky Manhattan at Mizunara

The Wan Chai bar injects extra depth to the classic cocktail with precision techniques and innovative spirit pairings.

Mizunara’s Smoky Manhattan. Photo: Mizunara
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 16-18

From Ling Chan’s guest shift at Serendipity and a gin-filled experience at PMQ, to a special evening with Ajit Gurung and Nokoy Mak in Macau.

Architecture and design

Scotch whisky brand The Dalmore redefines culture through art and design

Foster and Partners’ Ben Dobbin, who led the redevelopment of San Francisco’s famed Transamerica Pyramid, was the designer behind The Dalmore’s sculptural project this year.

Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, May 11-17

Cheese-infused sushi at Roucou, art with wine at ThinkWine, urban art in Tai Kok Tsui and a one-night revival of Canton Disco at The Trilogy.

Romain Loriot, founder and managing director of Thinkwine, which is collaborating with Rica Art Space for an Art ’n’ Wine party. Photo: Thinkwine
Food and Drinks

Japan’s oldest sake brand leans into tradition to revive the drink

Kenbishi Sake Brewing uses traditional methods and equipment to make drinks it believes will become trendy again.

Kenbishi Sake Brewery workers at its brewery in Kobe, Japan. Photo: Instagram/kenbishi.official
Food and Drinks

Martinis to Cosmopolitans, where 7 classic cocktails were created

James Bond’s tipple first appeared in New York’s Times Square. Black Russians aren’t from Russia. Cocktail origins from Paris to Puerto Rico.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 8-11

From The Daily Tot’s alcohol-free menu to Hong Kong Beer Co’s hoppy IPA and The Aubrey’s Korean-inspired cocktails.

Food and Drinks

929, New York bar that plays Chinese pop, is an ode to its owner’s roots

A temple to Cantopop and Mandopop, 929 serves cocktails inspired by Leslie Cheung and Dou Wei. For the owner, it’s about embracing identity.

929’s The Most Familiar Stranger cocktail, inspired by Taiwanese singer Elva Hsiao. Photo: 929
Hong Kong

Allez to the French May arts festival as it returns to Hong Kong

The annual celebration serves up a slice of Gallic goodness with its bounty of gourmet food and performing arts feasts.

Rachid Ouramdane’s Corps extrêmes combines acrobatics, dance and extreme sports. Photo: Le French May
Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Oyster Shell at Socio

The bar on Staunton Street uses oyster shells discarded by fish eatery Hooked on Caine Road to concoct an effervescent, refreshing drink.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 1-5

From 929’s Cantopop cocktails at Terrible Baby to alcohol-free delights at Mostly Harmless Bar with Coa, we’ve got you sorted.

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