World’s 50 Best Bars 2025: the ultimate guide to guest shifts in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is set to host the announcement of the World’s 50 Best Bars for the first time at Kai Tak Stadium on October 8 – and the city is bracing itself to sample the world’s best mixology. This is definitely the week to plan out your bar crawls, with so many international, not-to-be-missed establishments converging on the city. Luckily for you, we’ve picked a few of the most major ones.

On Monday and Tuesday, the two days leading up to the big event, there are so many visiting bartenders being hosted at different venues that we’ve split our picks across shifts held before and after 8pm to maximise your evening.

Read on for 100 Top Tables’ picks of the best guest shifts this week, ahead of the World’s 50 Best Bars awards ceremony.

Sunday, October 5

50 Best Signature Sessions – Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award winners

What: As part of World’s 50 Best Bars’ own series of Signature Sessions, Gokan is hosting previous winners of Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award. The tequila brand has put its name behind this award, whose winners are chosen by their peers across the world. On the night, Lynette Marrero – co-creator of the blitz bartending competition Speed Rack – is joined by Argentinian Tato Giovannoni (Florería Atlántico of Buenos Aires), GN Chan (Double Chicken Please, NYC) and Uno Jang (Jigger & Pony, Singapore) as they host one of the first parties of the week.

Where: Gokan, 30 Ice House Street, Central

When: 5pm-8pm

Quinary x Red Frog and Le Syndicat

What: Hong Kong’s own home of mixology is hosting a takeover featuring Red Frog from Lisbon, Portugal, and Le Syndicat from Paris. The former is bringing in culinary-inspired concoctions focusing on flavours – in Lisbon, the bar has created drinks such as the Saffron Plum + Rolls Royce, which combines Adamus organic dry gin, Portuguese muscat wine, saffron and plum.