Bar Camillo opens in Hong Kong with a tableside Negroni trolley
The 50-seat bar has four menus a year, each rooted in a moment of Italian popular culture, and a terrace over the city.
Lorenzo Antinori and Justin Shun Wah, the pair behind Bar Leone, are joining Rosewood Hong Kong to open Bar Camillo. The bar takes its cues from the Italian salotto, or living room, and opens on 25 November 2026 at 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.
It is a meeting of two names at the top of their lists. Bar Leone has placed first in The World's 50 Best Bars for two consecutive years, while Rosewood Hong Kong, looking over Victoria Harbour, has held the top spot in The World's 50 Best Hotels rankings.
Antinori is Rome-born and led the drinks programmes at London's Dandelyan and Hong Kong's Argo before Bar Leone. For Bar Camillo he has drawn on the warmth of an Italian home, with glossy wood veneers, polished metal, mirrored walls and a palette of alpine green, gold and cream.
The room moves from a long, sociable banquette beside the bar to more secluded corners, and an outdoor terrace offers spectacular views across the city. There are just 50 seats across the indoor and outdoor spaces, making this an intimate addition to the hotel's food and drink offering.
The Negroni receives special attention. Guests choose their preferred spirit, garnish and flavour profile, with floral, savoury and rich variations, and the drink is then prepared tableside from a dedicated Negroni trolley.
Four seasonal menus
Cocktails will rotate across four menus introduced through the year. Each takes inspiration from a specific moment in Italian popular culture, weaving in references to the music, art and drinking habits of its chosen period. The drinks span aperitivi and interpretations of established classics to more playful house creations.
The bar is named after Camillo, a fictional, playful bartender whose personality shapes the atmosphere and the service. Antinori frames the concept through the Italian tradition of padroni di casa, the hosts of the home, where bartenders take an active role in shaping the evening.
"At Bar Camillo, we want to strip away the formality found in a traditional hotel bar," Antinori said. "We want to offer a setting where guests can enjoy complex drinks without feeling stuffy, where the design and exceptional service prioritises something that is both vibrant and convivial."
"Here, everything is deliberately relaxed yet celebratory while capturing the quality reminiscent of hanging out at the home of a close friend, just with the absolute best of service," he said.
The space, he added, is built to feel like a "cool house party": eclectic and, most importantly, fun.
The Italian living-room look
The interior is built on a mid-century backbone. The retro palette of alpine green, gold and cream runs over glossy veneers and mirrors, and the seating is arranged to be sociable rather than stiff. A long banquette runs beside the bar, with quieter corners further back.
Antinori's own background feeds the concept directly. Born in Rome, he knows the informality of an Italian household, and that is the register the bar reaches for: a place where complex drinks can be taken seriously without the room turning stuffy.
The Negroni trolley is the clearest expression of it. Rather than handing over a menu and walking away, the bartender works the drink tableside, letting each guest shape the spirit, garnish and flavour before it is built, whether floral, savoury or rich.
Shun Wah and Antinori are bringing a standalone bar's energy to a hotel that holds the top spot in The World's 50 Best Hotels. The seasonal menus will follow through the year, each anchored in a different period of Italian popular culture, from its music to its art.
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