The Best Bars in Tsim Sha Tsui & East Tsim Sha Tsui

A Japanese cocktail bar split across two floors of a Kowloon office building that is, for reasons no one fully explains, almost entirely occupied by Japanese businesses. Light wood and leather keep things low-key on the fifth floor, where the classics menu does most of the work. One floor up, the whisky bar runs deep and eclectic. The lift connecting them is the building's only one, so factor that into your pace.

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Thirty-eight floors above Tsim Sha Tsui, a neighborhood with no shortage of pints and very few proper cocktail bars, Avoca makes a case for both altitude and effort. The cocktail bar inside the Mondrian Hong Kong builds its menu around Hong Kong childhood nostalgia, which sounds precious until you try an egg waffle rye whiskey and decide it doesn't matter. The crowd dresses up a little, and the view gives them a reason to.

1. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

The semi-rooftop perch on the fourth floor of Eaton HK makes this cocktail bar feel like a secret the rest of Kowloon hasn't fully found yet. The drinks lean into the city's hybrid identity, swapping tea for cold brew rum, finishing an old fashioned with a raspberry bonbon from a local chocolatier. It's the kind of bar where the menu has clearly been thought through by someone with something to prove, in the good way.

1. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables