Sweden’s award-winning Tjoget bar team in Hong Kong to launch Midnight Sun by Red Sugar at Kerry Hotel, putting ‘Scandi spin alongside Asian flavours’
- ‘The sun is up but it’s the middle of the night. That’s the feeling I want to bring to Hong Kong,’ says Niklas Forslin, bartender at Tjoget in Stockholm
- The Scandinavian bar’s partnership with the Kerry Hotel’s Red Sugar promises classic cocktails with a mix of northern European and Asian flavourings
The team behind Sweden’s Tjoget bar, a regular name on the World’s Best 50 Bars list, hope to replicate its success in Asia through the launch of a partnership with the flagship bar of Hong Kong’s Kerry Hotel under the theme Midnight Sun by Red Sugar.
The name is a reference to the long summer days experienced in the northern hemisphere.
“You get a unique feeling when you go out drinking in the summer months in Sweden,” says Niklas Forslin, a member of the Stockholm bar’s staff who will be head bartender under the partnership. “You look up at the sky, the sun is still up but it’s the middle of the night. That’s the feeling I want to bring to Hong Kong.”
Forslin has been working for Tjoget for 10 years and was part of the team when the bar was named on the World’s Best 50 Bars list in 2016. He is now part of the Tjoget Project, the bar’s spin-off platform dedicated to taking its name and reputation to the world stage through different initiatives.
The bar at the hotel in Hung Hom, Hong Kong, is one of its latest projects.
