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The 20 Best Places to Drink and Do in Macau

The best places to drink and do in Macau, according to the experts: Forbes Travel Guide, The 50, and Michelin Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Morpheus Spa comes out on top.

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Spa at Wynn Palace Macau and The Ritz-Carlton Spa, Macau hold the next two places. Forbes Travel Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.

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    Estrada do Istmo, Estr. do Istmo, Macao · Macau
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–10 PM

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    Level 3, Epic Tower, Estrada do Istmo, Cotai, Macau · Macau
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–11 PM

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    5/F, Grand Lisboa Macau, Macao · Macau
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–9 PM

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    Level 3, Grand Lisboa Palace, Macao · Macau
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–9 PM

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  9. Amethyst crystal steam rooms set the tone at this Forbes Five Star spa inside the Mandarin Oriental, a welcome counterpoint to Macau's casino-floor energy. Eight treatment rooms cover everything from body scrubs to traditional Chinese medicine and local Macanese treatments. The service is quiet and precise, the kind where things simply appear before you ask.

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    Level 3, Palazzo Versace, Macao · Macau
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 2 PM

    Wednesday 2 PM–10 PM

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  15. Rank 16. Mesa

    Modern Portuguese

    The central bar is built to echo a traditional Chinese birdcage, which tells you something about the ambitions here. Mesa is a hotel cocktail bar inside The Karl Lagerfeld at Grand Lisboa Palace, dressed in black and gold and leaning hard into a Portugal-meets-Macau identity. The cocktails follow that same Eurasian thread, with a resident mixologist making the concept feel less like decor and more like a point of view.


  16. The house Bloody Mary arrives with chorizo, piri piri, and a miniature egg tart on the side, which tells you most of what you need to know about this cocktail bar inside the St. Regis Cotai. The menu leans into the hotel brand's New York roots while folding in Portuguese Macau at every turn. Live jazz most nights, refined bar snacks, and a room that takes the whole thing seriously without making you feel underdressed for enjoying it.


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  18. A bar opposite the Portuguese consulate that spends its mornings as a stylish café and its evenings chasing rare spirits, Two Moons has a split personality that Macau seems perfectly happy to accommodate. Whisky anchors the shelves, but the collection wanders far beyond Scotland into distillates most bars wouldn't bother stocking. Coffee gets the same careful attention as the cocktails, which sets the tone for how seriously the team takes all of this.

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  19. Rank 20. Wing Lei Bar

    Cocktail Bar

    Mozzarella foam on a cocktail is a statement, and Wing Lei Bar at Wynn Macau is happy to make it. A cocktail bar that spent years doing the respectable hotel-lounge thing before a Scottish mixologist arrived and steered things toward the strange and genuinely exciting. The Unity menu and a rotating guest shift series give the room energy that most hotel bars spend decades pretending to have.

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    Macau, Macau · Macau
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–1 AM

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The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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