Speakeasy behind an umbrella-shop facade on Duddell Street, with 1950s gentleman-spy theming and live jazz every night.
Foxglove sits on Duddell Street in Central, hidden behind a working umbrella-shop facade that locals walk past every day. The door pulls back into a long art-deco room with 1950s gentleman-spy theming and a small live-music stage that runs jazz, soul, and the occasional swing band every night. The South China Morning Post review called it a sense of lost luxury, which is the line the room is built to live up to.
This is one of the more committed speakeasies in a city that has had a decade of them, and the live music is the structural reason it has outlived most. Sassy Hong Kong's 2017 review described it as a sophisticated speakeasy that still managed to feel playful, and the room has kept the balance. Anyone after a fast Old Fashioned and a quiet conversation will struggle when the band is on; anyone after a long sit, a whisky list, and a soundtrack will be in the right room.
Art-deco lines, dark wood panelling, deep leather banquettes, and the small jazz stage at the back. Wallpaper Magazine's profile flagged the costume-and-prop detail (umbrella stands, suitcase props, the framed false-papers behind the bar) as the reason the theming holds.
The cocktail list runs HK$160-180 and leans on classics done well, with a small whisky-forward signature menu. Order the Foxglove Old Fashioned or one of the rotating whisky highballs; skip the more elaborate signatures on a busy Friday when the band is running and the bar is two-deep. The whisky list runs deep into Scotch and Japanese drams from HK$120.
Finance and law mid-30s on weeknights, a Saturday date-night crowd from 8pm, and a late hospitality industry crowd from midnight. The SCMP's review flagged the live-music programme as the reason the room turns over differently from the rest of Central.