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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 496 bars
Best bars in Hong Kong
The 10 most notable bars in Hong Kong, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Be on Canton
Level 3, Gateway Hotel, Hong Kong, Harbour City, 13 Canton Rd
368 m from Tsim Sha Tsui Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.425, percentile 100 of 496
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2
Mizunara: The Library
4/F, 361-363 Lockhart Rd
463 m from Causeway Bay station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.419, percentile 99.8 of 496
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3
Mirage Bar & Restaurant
Harbour Road, 1號 1/F, Renaissance Harbour View Hotel
258 m from Exhibition Centre Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.418, percentile 99.6 of 496
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4
The Chinnery
1/F, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, 5 Connaught Rd Central
176 m from Central Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.417, percentile 99.39 of 496
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5
Free House Bar and Cafe
8號鋪, Mei Hing Mansion, 1至17號 Yan Hing St
51 m from Hong Kong Railway Museum, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.417, percentile 99.19 of 496
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6
Blue Supreme
21 Tung St
281 m from Sheung Wan station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.416, percentile 98.99 of 496
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7
The Madhouse Taproom
G/F, 16-18 Yim Po Fong Street, Yim Po Fong St
306 m from Mong Kok East Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.415, percentile 98.79 of 496
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8
Carnegies
Lockhart Rd
234 m from Wan Chai station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.415, percentile 98.59 of 496
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9
James Suckling Wine Central
6, 10 Shin Hing St
245 m from Sheung Wan station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.415, percentile 98.38 of 496
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10
Banker Bar and Lounge
27/F, 523-527 Hennessy Rd
28 m from Causeway Bay station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.414, percentile 98.18 of 496
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).