Hong Kong Bar Leone is the world’s best bar according to the latest edition of the prestigious list “World’s Best 50”. It opened this Sunday in the eastern metropolis of Shanghai. Just a month after winning the coveted award, the second establishment took place in China.
The cocktail bar announced the new opening in early September, saying, “We are thrilled and honored to announce that we will be opening in beautiful Shanghai this fall. We are looking forward to your participation as we are rapidly growing. Shanghai bar scene, meet old friends and make new ones.
The new facility opened this Sunday at Sinan Mansion, a popular mixed-use complex in a renovated historic building. so that it becomes the node of the bar again A restaurant from the 1920s, when colonial Shanghai was known as the “Paris of the East.” The World’s Best 50 attributes Bar Leone’s success to two factors. “A great cocktail menu and an even better sense of humor.”
The rise of the bar was meteoric: it began Mid-2023, Italian Lorenzo AntinoriAfter working at some of the finest bars in London, Seoul and Hong Kong, he opened a space “designed as an homage to ‘popular cocktails,’ Italian pop culture, and the classic art of hospitality.”
Bar Leone takes its name from Trastevere, the most famous symbol of its native Rome, and aims to rescue its very essence. Bars in the historic Italian capitalwe sit around a simple table and discuss life.
In a recent interview with Hong Kong’s EFE after winning the title of best bar in the world, Antinori explained that he does not intend to “rely on machines or laboratory processes.” “We want our ingredients to speak for themselves,” he said.
Their menu highlights things like the “Filthy Martini, Negroni with fig leaf or olive oil sours,” as well as classic appetizers. focaccia Served with mortadella and ricotta or one of its most famous dishes, smoked olives: at first. Asian customers didn’t like olivesBut everything changed when Cantonese barbecue’s signature smoky flavor was added.
Antinori was adamant that the recognition had not changed him: “Before receiving the award, We were just a neighborhood bar. Neighbors came over to have coffee, chat, and end the day. “That close relationship remains the soul of everything we do.”
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