This time, I want to introduce is a cafe and a bar in Hong Kong. Its name is Rest Coffee Gin. From the name of the shop, you may already notice the reason I said its a cafe and a bar. It serves as a cafe in the afternoon, and serve as a bar at night. So, I will split into two parts to introduce to you.
Before introducing the cafe and the bar to you all, we get back to some general introduction of the shop first.
The address is Hong Kong West Kowloon Art Park GF-04.
It is a Coffee house from 12:00- 18:00 (Mon-Sun)
a Gin and cocktail bar from 18:00- 00:00 (Tue-Sun)
Dinner from 18:00- 21:30 (Tue-Sun)
***Please aware of the day you visit the shop.
This cafe aims to create a comfortable and private space for every customer. While the customer comes and consumes the coffee, they hope you can enjoy the best coffee and maybe reading a book or chatting with your friends. Just enjoy a free afternoon. Back to the topic, the coffee house has served types of coffee beans and matcha. They are coming from different manors. So each type of coffee beans and matcha has its unique characteristics. If you are not an expert on those, you can ask them about it. After choosing the coffee bean or matcha, you will need to choose how you wanna make it. It will list on the menu. There are some cakes and bread serves in the afternoon. It is a flex menu, so you may ask them if you want to try it out. Their signature drinks are the Matcha Latte and the Espresso Tonic. For me, I have tried the Matcha Latte. The picture below is the Matcha Latte with a cheesecake. You will see a thick layer of matcha, the dark green layer above the milk (the white layer). It shows a great contrast between the two layers. The taste of the matcha is strong. While the milk mix with matcha, the taste of matcha brings out more. So you should try it if you are not a favor of coffee.
The second part is the bar. It is a gin bar They have different types of gin. You must love the bar if you are a gin lover. The bar has served two kinds of cocktails. One type is tea cocktail and another type is Gin cocktail. I have tried two different types of tea cocktails. The first one I tried is called “照葉林”. It is a cocktail using matcha as the base. At first, it is a cocktail recipe from Suntory to promote the matcha liqueur. The meaning of the cocktail is to imagine the atmosphere of the forest that is always green among the seasons. So the bartender from the bar has modified the cocktail. Normally, you will use hot water to boil matcha. But this time, bartender replace water with vodka… I won’t tell you about the whole procedure. If you want to know more about it, go to the bar and enjoy the cocktail by yourself. The color of the drink is really beautiful. While you keep drinking the cocktail, you will taste the matcha strongly. You can take some time to enjoy the drink, it’s not a cocktail that you need to finish it quickly. Even drinking at the end of the cocktail, you can still smell the spice of the matcha.
The second one calls Lotus. It uses Infused Gin of Chelan Rock Tea as the base. This one is stronger than the first one I tried. You will first taste the spice of the tea, then is the feeling of bitterness and then the floral. The cocktail has added lemon juice, Campari and orange liqueur. This cocktail has paid tribute to the recipe"Jasmine" from bartender Paul Harrington.
I will also recommend you, that reading my article, can also try on their dinner too, They are attractive as well. Follow their Instagram for the newest information. IG: rest.coffee.gin
