Reply Bar

In urban design, ”spatial symbiosis“ means buildings and the city engage in active dialogue at their boundaries. We continued the relatively enclosed facade approach from Shanghai — not rejecting the city, but respecting the street‘s rhythm.

In Chengdu, a wooden textured wall shields the main outward-facing space, creating a quiet interior. On its extended part, we embedded travertine benches for pedestrians. This bench becomes a soft interface between building and street. Passersby can rest there, and the storefront becomes a considerate footnote to urban life.

On a deeper level, Reply explores the complementary relationship between architecture and the city — closed and open, private and public, introverted and extroverted. These are not contradictions, but achieve symbiosis through careful interface design. This symbiosis preserves the immersive drinking culture inside while returning ease to the street, making the city more worth lingering in and more warm.

Every year, May 13 is World Cocktail Day.

It goes back to 1806. That May, a newspaper in New York wrote down what “cocktail” meant for the first time: spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. Just a few words, but they gave bartending something that could be understood and passed on.

In 2006 — exactly 200 years later — the Museum of the American Cocktail made it World Cocktail Day. Not to celebrate the invention of any particular drink, but to mark the moment it was written down. From that point on, bartending was no longer just a craft passed by word of mouth. It became knowledge.

This year is 2026. 220 years.

Reply Bar wants to do one thing: make a few drinks, carefully, on this day.

No recreations. No retro themes. Just standing where we are today, using today’s ways, to respond to the things that took 220 years to reach our bar. Every drink is a bartender’s take on time — proportions, temperature, touch, and that small judgment of what a guest might want right now.

Those things are written in recipes as steps. Behind the bar, they’re daily practice.

World Cocktail Day at Reply Bar · May 13–17.

If you happen to be around, stop in for a drink. Consider it a pause for this 220-year journey.

BOURBON, BITTER REDUCTION, CHOCOLATE SMOKE.

波本威士忌、苦味浓缩、巧克力烟熏

A classic-style cocktail built on the Old Fashioned / Boulevardier structure.

With the rich depth of bourbon whiskey as its core, it inherits the classic framework of an Old Fashioned.

The caramelized bitter-sweetness of a heat-concentrated Boulevardier merges with the intense flavor of smoked chocolate, presenting a solid, deep, and multi-layered body. Overall, it is bold, with notes of caramel and smoke, bitter-sweet, and classic.