COA sits a few doors down from Bar Leone on Shin Hing Street and has been arguing - successfully and at length - that agave spirits deserve the same connoisseurship that single malts and small-batch bourbons receive. Jay Khan opened the bar in 2017. It has been on Asia's 50 Best almost continuously since. The bar's working menu lists more than two hundred mezcals, tequilas, raicillas, sotols, bacanoras, and other agave-and-agave-adjacent distillates. The first-time visitor needs a small vocabulary to make sense of the place.
The order to drink them in is the order they appear above. The bar will sell you a flight (around HK$450 for four pours) or build one verbally based on what you want to learn. The bartenders are unusually patient about the educational side; this is the bar where Hong Kong's spirits enthusiasts come to learn, and the team takes the role seriously.
