Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 3-4
Planning to dial down on the alcohol for the first month of 2025? Try these zero- or low-ABV cocktails, and tea-inspired or tea-infused libations
100 Top Tables wishes you a Happy New Year! Though this is our weekly drinks guide, let’s face it – December was essentially a month of parties. Our social batteries are likely all at zero and our livers and/or wallets deserve a break. Here are our humble recommendations for how to ring in the New Year in comfort and with ease – especially if this is the first weekend of a dry or damp January for you.
Friday, January 3
Start your dry/damp January
What: If you are indeed looking for one last night out before the first Monday blues of the New Year hits, but dry/damp January is at the top of your resolutions, Hong Kong is home to a great array of zero- or low-ABV options for the first crawl of 2025. Head to SoHo or Causeway Bay to enjoy Draftland’s Hibiscus Fizz on tap, a refreshing teetotal highball that’s perfect to enjoy inside as well as just outside the venue.
Further into SoHo, newer concepts are dedicating entire sections of their menus to zero-ABV creations. C108’s Detox mocktails use non-alcoholic spirits, and include the “rum”-based Dynamite, a citrus and sweet option, and the “tequila”-based Derby, which combines grenadine and ginger beer.
There is also The Savory Project, where the menu includes the Temperance section, which has the lychee-and-ginger-kombucha based Seed of Life, and Garden to Glass, which uses tomatoes and peppers to create a vegetal profile with non-alcoholic Seedlip Garden gin.
Where and when:
C108, 15 Old Bailey Street, Central, 6pm-12am
Draftland, 63 Wyndham Street, Central, 5pm-2am
The Savory Project, 4 Staunton Street, Central, 6pm-1am
Saturday, January 4
Sipping at home
