Hope & Sesame
Guangzhou, China
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No. 12 on The 50 Best Bars 2026. The World's 50 Best Bars: No. 29 (2025); No. 63 (2024), No. 74 (2023) and No. 94 (2021) on the 51-100 list. Asia's 50 Best Bars: No. 1 (2026), No. 7 (2025), No. 14 (2024), No. 39 (2023), No. 18 (2022), No. 15 (2021). Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards: Best International Cocktail Bar (Regional Honoree, 2026), Best International Bar Team (Top 10 Nominee: 2025, 2024), Best International Bar Team (Regional Honoree, 2020).
Hope & Sesame opened in March 2016 behind a small Cantonese store in Dongshankou, in the old heart of Guangzhou, and is led by Bastien Ciocca and Andrew Ho. The bar calls itself a testing ground for cocktail innovation rooted in Cantonese hospitality and flavors, and its seventeenth menu, Bittersweet, is built on herbal teas, bitter melon, dried tangerine peel and ginseng.
