KL Cocktail Week returns for its third year, with events across KL and PJ

Kuala Lumpur Cocktail Week is back for its third edition from April 28 to May 3, and will be taking place across multiple venues in the city.

Kuala Lumpur Cocktail Week is back for its third edition from April 28 to May 3, and will be taking place across multiple venues in the city.

 

Turning KL (and Petaling Jaya) into a cocktail hub for a week, the events will take place across four zones – PJ/Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI), Bangsar/Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, and Chinatown, with each zone hosting its own events.

This will all culminate with the day-long Festival Village celebration on May 2, which will be happening at Sentul Depot.

Organised by a group of local industry leaders and stakeholders with the objective of highlighting the art of cocktails and promoting the city’s growing cocktail scene, this year’s KLCW will include guest shifts by some of Asia's best bars.

This includes Seoul's Zest, which palced No.2 on last year's Asia's 50 Best Bars list. Other reknowned bars that will be here include Thailand's Bar Us and Dry Wave Cocktail Studio, Indonesia's Carrots and Cosmo Pony, Singapore's Origin Bar and Native, Japan's Bar Benfiddich and Virtu, China's Hope & Sesame and CMYK, Hong Kong's COA and Quinary, India's ZLB23, Macau's Wing Lei Bar, Vietnam's Workshop 14, and more.

Three X Co will be among the local bars hosting international guests shifts during KLCW.

Local bars that will be hosting these events include Amazonas, Bā by Kinugawa, B.E.D., Bar None, Bar Trigona, Cabinet 8 KL, Concubine, Cacao Mixology & Chocolate, Frank’s, Four Siblings, Humboldt, Ikiya 2.0, Joloko, JungleBird, Lavantha, Lane 23, Moonbar, Penrose, Reka:Bar, RAW, Remedy, Soma, Three X Co, Up & Away and Wet Deck.

Another unique aspect of KLCW are its cocktail pairing dinners, and this time, the restaurants involved include Michelin-starred Akar Dining and Terra Dining, as well as other reknowned outlets like Barkar, Fifty Tales, Bistro Lea, Ling Long, Nadodi, Pickle Dining, Roost, Tangram, Terra Dining, Topshelf, and Yellow Fin Horse.

Besides guest shifts, there will also be a conference, as well as the Festival Village on May 2.

This year's KLCW will also feature' Tipple Talks' a food and beverage conferencehappening at W KL on May 1, which will bring together industry figures for a programme of education-led talks and panel discussions.

The sessions will examine the evolving landscape of hospitality, covering themes such as culinary heritage, identity in modern hospitality, workforce evolution, the role of AI, and the growing influence of the creator economy on the future of food and beverage.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit KLCW's Instagram page @klcwofficial.