It's a 3 star bar + 1 star view…read more
When you talk about the rooftop bars in HK, we'll have the usual suspects like Sevva, Ozone, Wooloomooloo (in Wanchai) and Azure. If you throw in the bars with good view, either from inside a tall building, or an outdoor podium, you'll have Aqua, Felix, Cafe Grey, Red @ IFC, Armani/Prive, Hooray, etc. There are certainly more than enough for you to choose from.
This bar has everything they promise, and nothing more than that. They have a 270 degree view from the HK side, overseeing North Point to Happy Valley, with the whole Kowloon under your view. It is nothing less of amazing. It is a rooftop, as promised too, which you'll see a massive billboard behind you, written "MIDTOWN", which is the name of this new building. It is a bar, it gives you alcohol. It's "by Harlan Goldstein", too, just like the Penthouse right down stairs.
But don't expect more than that. It doesn't have DJ or live band here, nor proper washroom - you have to go back downstairs. The rooftop is rather big, but tables and seats are only filled half of it, probably because they don't have the personnel or infrastructure to serve the whole floor yet. And they are interesting lack of a good crowd - there are empty tables always available. I can't imagine any of those rooftop bars I mentioned above would be less busy than a full house, but hey, if I can have the view all by my own and not have to fight for it, I'm definitely not complaining.
All in all, it is a very new bar, so everything is still developing, including the crowd. I'm sure it will get busier soon. We ordered a bottle of wine among three of us, which on the higher end of a standard "Causeway Bay" price tag, but I guess you have to pay for the "Goldstein premium" here.