Bars visited or discussed, whether on the BotF Bar Review Map or not
Category: Bars
Sugar on top of the East Hotel
After being blown away by Azure, the rooftop bar on LKF Hotel, I thought it’d be hard to top. Well, another rooftop bar on another hotel has done it. To be honest, there’s an element of dead heat given the …
On the Back of the Mui Wo ferry
Got the bit between the teeth now and decided to get the ferry to Mui Wo, which is on the verdant Lantau Island. Had I put any sort of planning into my trip, I could have caught an inter-island ferry …
On the Back of the Cheung Chau ferry
After 7 straight days of rain, mist, cloud and fog, Hong Kong has turned some sun. Whilst it still has to struggle through a layer of high haze, there’s some heat to it so it is sunnies on and time …
Azure Bar – rooftop heaven
Firstly apologies to those readers that subscribe to BotF by E-Mail that received the riveting update on the Under 7 Buffaloes duties for Saturday. D’oh and double d’oh. Getting to know more and more of Hong Kong on this latest …
The Black Bird rooftop bar makes up for Tai Po disappointment
The next five days will see this correspondent spending most of his time in a conference in central Hong Kong, so an opportunity was taken to explore an area outside the mainstream. I’d read a little about the area of …
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Taipa pub crawl
As previously mentioned, Macau is not a beer drinker’s town and it isn’t a pub crawler’s town either. An old Beijing buddy said once when I told him I was visiting a few years ago said “Macau! There’s only two …
A Drink at the Brewery Bar
via Nicholas Gordon at Broadsheet After outgrowing its former home base at Harts Pub in the city, Rocks Brewing Company has moved to a shiny new brewery in Sydney Corporate Park in Alexandria, and there is a spanking new bar …
Holgate Tap Takeover at YardArm Taphouse
Last Wednesday night, two of your correspondents enjoyed an hour or so of beer heaven. The afternoon had started off in typical fashion, sharing post work bevvies with pommy_ch and lamb0 on the Back of the Ferry. Pommy_ch and lamb0 …
Oh Lordy, Garage Project and Bebemos
The suburb of Newtown in Wellington has gone through an unbelievable transformation over the last 10+ years. It was once a working class suburb with not a lot going for. It had a bad reputation as a run-down, derelict and dangerous …
Donny’s, Dumplings, Dad & Dave’s – an alliterative combo
Back in the early days of Back of the Ferry, we wrote about a cool new bar in Manly. Almost four years later, as a symbol of Manly’s growth as a bar district, we are now writing about another new …
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