The Bairro Alto has dozens of bars, from traditional drinking dens to the high camp and fashionable, such as Heidi (heidibar.com), a "Swiss concept bar".
Or you can learn about the cocoa industries of Cameroon and Gabon, then stuff your face with Ferrero products at the Nutella concept bar.
The hotel also has a "locally sourced farm-to-table restaurant" called Wall & Water, the "open concept" bar (picture drink stations at your table); a well-equipped fitness center; meeting rooms and other business services.
The Andaz Wall Street, which opened in January, was impeccably designed by the Rockwell Group — the New York firm behind several W Hotels, Nobu restaurants and the stage sets of this year's Academy Awards — with clever but not overbearing surprises like multifunctional furniture and an "open concept" bar.
They are installing the S-curved counter adjacent to Next that will house a high-concept bar called Aviary, with five separate stations for "cocktail chefs"; huge curved girders that evoke Victorian train stations; and a sprawling basement kitchen that will include a dedicated work space for Aviary's two full-time ice chefs.
Host Mariott is even building an Internet concept bar and grill around Get2Net's kiosks, dubbed CyberFlyer Clubs.
Gametize's two other founders, Jesslyn Teo and Brenda Nicole Tan, will run a new fusion sushi concept bar to be opened in Singapore called Sushitize.
Earlier in 2012, the stylish Spanish tapas concept Bar Pulpo by MoVida opened in Melbourne Airport's Terminal 2, helmed by Australian celebrity chef Frank Camorra who runs the popular MoVida restaurant in Melbourne.
Junior's audacious modus operandi reads like a risky gamble, but to Zdenek Kastanek, General Manager of Proof & Company which owns and operates the new concept bar, it made sound business sense.
The modern Cantonese restaurant has "a reimagined entrance, refreshed interior and a new open-concept bar environment," according to an announcement.
