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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Ming Pavilion’s Beng Hiang pop-up at Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 27-March 1

Crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock in Hong Kong is inspired by the cuisine of Kerala in South India. Photo: Handout

Dish in focus: crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock

Caprice Bar in Hong Kong’s Four Seasons is known for its innovative take on cocktails. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography

Drink in Focus: ‘Water’ at Caprice Bar at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong

Pony & Plume, at Capella at Galaxy Macau, boasts a massive collection of over 650 individual and curated whiskies. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 26-28

From celebrating love to leaving the past behind, Hong Kong’s bars have you covered this Valentine’s weekend. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

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Pony & Plume at Capella at Galaxy Macau boasts over 650 varieties of rare and unique whiskies. Photo: Handout
Luxury travel

What’s new at Galaxy Macau, from whisky wonders to Japanese elegance

Pony & Plume offers over 650 rare whiskies while Hotel Okura Macau blends traditional Japanese hospitality with understated modern-day luxury.

Food and Drinks

Party sober? Asia’s bars and drink giants shift gears as Gen Z ditch alcohol

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 27 to March 1

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Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: ‘Water’ at Caprice Bar at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong

The drink, inspired by the Hugo Spritz, combines the delicate minerality of oyster leaf-infused St-Germain Elderflower liqueur and champagne.

Caprice Bar in Hong Kong’s Four Seasons is known for its innovative take on cocktails. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 26-28

Celebrate mixology, from Central’s Gossip to Galaxy Macau’s Capella and Long Bar, with themed cocktails, whisky flights and guest bartenders.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 20 to 22

Enjoy music and markets in West Kowloon, take your pet to a cafe in Sheung Wan, attend a women-only workout in Quarry Bay and more.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 21-23

We’ve got you covered for drinks as we welcome the Year of the Horse, from Chinese New Year cocktails to a special night at Qura with Singapore’s Side Door.

Kinsman’s Neen Go-Lada, exclusive to Lunar New Year 2026. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

This TCM bar in China makes customers drinks based on its doctor’s diagnoses

Shanghai bar Niang Qing is one of many new traditional Chinese medicine bars that offer bespoke wellness to China’s stressed-out youth.

Food and Drinks

10 great Lunar New Year food and drink gifts available in Hong Kong

From chic hampers with abalone and nuts to local gin, these gifts are great for giving – and sharing – to ring in the Year of the Horse 2026.

Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Off Wave at Dead Poets

The shochu-based cocktail, part of the bar’s Liquid Gallery menu, is inspired by Hokusai’s art and blends Japanese flavours.

Off Wave, from Dead Poets’ latest menu Liquid Gallery, is inspired by a Hokusai print. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

From Flower Years’ Drunk in Love to Mostly Harmless’ Mardi Gras, there are parties for romantics and rebels this Valentine’s weekend.

From celebrating love to leaving the past behind, Hong Kong’s bars have you covered this Valentine’s weekend. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Unsung Eats: 5 best places to eat – and drink – in Singapore

Discover the city’s hidden culinary gems ensconced in side-street speakeasies, revamped warehouses and intimate supper clubs.

Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong, February 8-14

Try two new menus at Michelin-starred Hansik Goo, combine alcohol and tattoos at Cordis Hotel’s Alibi bar, or enjoy retro-futuristic neon art at Tai Kwun.

Food and Drinks

Serious about wine? New Hong Kong wine bar focuses on true connoisseurs

Champion sommelier Mason Ng designed his Maison Natsukashii to attract wine fanatics like himself who ‘know what they want’.

Sommelier Mason Ng Yin-song poses for a photo at wine bar Maison Natsukashii in Central. 31JAN26 SCMP / Karma Lo
Food and Drinks

‘Martini craze’ sweeps New York and London as bars shake up classic cocktail

James Bond’s favourite drink is finding fans and driving profits in the US and UK as bartenders serve twists with carrot wine and coriander.

Martinis at the Martini Bar at Hawksmoor St Pancras, in London. Photo: Instagram/hawksmoormartinibar
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 5-7

Kick off this month with painter-themed drinks at Dead Poets, guest shifts that bring Asian-inspired cocktails to The Opposites, and Italian flavours to Avoca.

Food and Drinks

11 new Hong Kong restaurants and bars to try in February 2026

New openings include the new branch of a Korean pizza chain, a Japanese gelato joint, a borsch specialist and two French restaurants.

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China consumption

How changing tastes in China are hitting Australia’s wine exports

Younger consumers’ preference for healthier, low-alcohol beverages has contributed to shrinking of Chinese market.

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Bottles of Australian wine at a store in Beijing in November 2020. Photo: Reuters
Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Durian’s Consent at Peridot

Peridot concocts what might be Hong Kong’s boldest cocktail, which delicately blends the divisive fruit’s creamy flavours with a shochu-rum fusion.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 29-31

This weekend, enjoy Glass Gardener’s guest shift at Locale18, intriguing new cocktails at The Savoury Project, and a Korean fiesta at The Green Door.

Food and Drinks

‘Everything was a gamble’: Hong Kong gin makers on distilling their dream

Nicholas Law and Jeremy Li conceived NIP Distilling in 2017. Now their gin is winning international awards and showing ‘what Hong Kong is’.

NIP Distilling founders Jeremy Li (left) and Nicholas Law are pictured at their gin distillery in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay neighbourhood. The pair, who built the brand from the ground up, are seeing their tipple take off in Hong Kong and beyond. Photo: Elson Li
Editor's Letter

This week in PostMag: the many layers of Macau

This issue explores the profiles, places and passions that capture Macau’s past and present – from off-duty chefs to indefatigable storytellers.

The Ruins of Saint Paul’s in Macau feature on the cover of the January 25 print edition of PostMag. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Your Perfect Week

The best things to do in Hong Kong, January 25-31

Enjoy new media art courtesy of Austria’s Ars Electronica, a sensory 8-drink menu at Quinary, and an exhibition celebrating time from Van Cleef & Arpels.

Food and Drinks

How Macau went from cocktail desert to drinks-world darling

Will the gambling mecca’s bar scene finally hit its stride in 2026? The city’s leading bartenders speak out.

Locals' Guide

Insider’s guide to Bengaluru: from flower markets to late-night bars

Lush parks, buzzing markets and a thriving music scene define the Silicon Valley of India.

The streets outside the KR (Krishna Rajendra) Market. Photo: Getty Images
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 22-24

It’s guest shifts galore as The Aubrey and Lobster Bar – and Macau’s Wing Lei Bar – host top mixologists from across Asia.

A cosy corner at The Aubrey in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Wellness

The huge benefits of quitting alcohol, from weight loss to slowing ageing

Ex-drinkers and sobriety experts explain how life is better and healthier without drinking as many attempt the same during Dry January.

Food and Drinks

Drink in focus: Egg Waffle cocktail at Avoca

Avoca at Mondrian Hong Kong renders the classic snack in cocktail form with Michter’s whiskey, Advocaat and more.

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