The Old Man

The Old Man is a new bar that opened in August and proudly proclaims itself as the first Ernest Hemingway-themed bar in Hong Kong, but with a distinctly Asian touch added. The bar, which takes its name from Hemingway’s 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea, about an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with the biggest catch of his life, pays tribute to one of American literature’s greatest novelists and his love of a good drink. There are the usual suspects like the Negroni and the whisky highball, but the real stars of the show are nine house cocktails which include the papa doble, a Daiquiri variation that Hemingway famously enjoyed (a lot of) at El Floridita bar in Havana.