{"id":85647,"date":"2026-09-17T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=85647"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:46:02","slug":"on-the-menu-is-new-yorks-bar-leone-a-copycat-of-hong-kongs-worlds-best-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=85647","title":{"rendered":"On the Menu | Is New York\u2019s Bar Leone a copycat of Hong Kong\u2019s \u2018World\u2019s Best\u2019 original?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/17\/a6bee5a9-769a-4000-85c7-1da5b3a87bdf_ade4ccfc.jpg?itok=rjmVigcw&amp;v=1789622352\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">I was at a dinner the other night when a guest excitedly asked: \u201cDid you know Bar Leone just opened in New York City?\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The original Bar Leone is a famed Hong Kong cocktail bar on Bridges Street in Sheung Wan. Opened in 2023 by Italian bartender Lorenzo Antinori, the popular watering hole has already been named Asia\u2019s Best Bar twice (2024-5) by 50 Best and is its current World\u2019s Best Bar.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last year, it opened its second location in Shanghai\u2019s Huangpu district. In March, the team served cocktails at the invite-only Governors Ball \u2013 the official after-party for the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Given the similarity between the Hong Kong and New York bars\u2019 names, and the fact that both employ a similar burgundy colour scheme and use motifs featuring a 2D lion holding a tray of cocktails, you would probably think that this was yet another chapter in the Hong Kong bar\u2019s international expansion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3367801\/new-yorks-bar-leone-copycat-hong-kongs-worlds-best-original?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a dinner the other night when a guest excitedly asked: \u201cDid you know Bar Leone just opened in New York City?\u201d The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2917,6558,3569,5010,30153,739,2443,3117,30152],"class_list":["post-85647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-bar","tag-copycat","tag-hong","tag-kongs","tag-leone","tag-menu","tag-original","tag-worlds","tag-yorks","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}