Sipping and slurping your way around Asia’s best cocktail bars may not be everyone’s idea of a dream Asian holiday, but for some it may well be. For others, bar hopping will undoubtedly create another pillar of memories alongside the cultural and culinary delights that Asia is already renowned for.
Today, creativity and craft go hand in hand with mixologists also becoming storytellers through blending the culinary roots of their community and regions with local legends, faraway places, and global exposés to create the ultimate drink experience for their guests.
So, between shots, exquisite cocktails both old and new, and tasting flights at glittering sky-high bars in Hong Kong and Singapore to a traditional Korean home and hidden simplistic digs in Jakarta, we’ve created a comfortable, barhop-able itinerary from Asia’s Best Bars for 2023 that could form the basis of your next Asian holiday.
There are 21 bars in all on this itinerary, selected from the Asia’s 50 Best Bars list for 2023. The bars are chosen by a voting panel comprising some of the region’s top bartenders, cocktail aficionados, and drink writers from amongst the 260 members of the Asia’s 50 Best Bars Academy.