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Rob Garratt
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Mar 19, 2026
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Rob is an award-winning writer with two decades of experience in culture and lifestyle journalism. His travel writing has appeared in international titles including Time Out, Travel Weekly, South China Morning Post (SCMP) and The National, as well as glossy mags for Cathay, Etihad, P&O and Jumeirah. He is currently a senior editor covering art and music at Hong Kong’s premier culture platform Zolima CityMag, and a regular contributor of reviews to leading lifestyle title CSP Times. He has reviewed hotels from NYC's Times Square to the plains of Kenya and beaches of Bali.
Rob is now finally ready to admit he is one half of @hkbeatsandeats.
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Aug 6, 2026 ∙ 3 min
Checking in: The Hari Hong Kong
HONG KONG First Impressions From the modest street-level entryway, an elevator ride shuttles you up a single floor distance that feels like a million mile-journey, from the hardware stores and dubious nightlife reputation of Wan Chai into the cultural oasis that is The Hari’s lobby lounge. One could easily lose an afternoon reading the spines of the vast array of coffee table books artfully arranged on surfaces throughout the lovingly curated room – and a week just flipping through the pages....
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Jul 4, 2026 ∙ 3 min
We Tried the Father & Son Grooming Package at Fox and the Barber, Hong Kong's Most Dapper Barbershop – Review
HONG KONG All images courtesy of Fox and the Barber. The Pitch Why Fox and the Barber? It really should be Fox the Barber. Once upon a time (well, in 2015), British hairdresser Paul Fox decamped to Hong Kong and founded a classic barbershop inspired by a hazy romantic vision of better days gone by. Think an imperial, Anglo-take on Jazz Age machismo. It’s all very Peaky Blinders – staff are pictured online clutching whisky tumblers and garbed in waistcoats. Scowls and slicked-back fringes are...
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Jun 1, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Checking in: Cordis, Hong Kong
HONG KONG Cordis is a younger, artier sister brand of old-world luxury kingpin Langham – inaugurated in 2015 when its Langham Place, Mongkok property was reborn. Since then, six more addresses have popped up across mainland China, and one in Auckland, and with five further Chinese properties in development, Cordis (that’s “heart in Latin”) is clearly on the up. However it all started here in Hong Kong – where we checked in for a celebratory staycation. Art, Art, Everywhere “Art gallery...
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May 29, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Checking in: The Langham, Hong Kong
HONG KONG Nowhere in Hong Kong has a higher confluence of luxury hotels than the throbbing heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, which makes both standards and competition high. Yet The Langham, Hong Kong really doesn’t need to try and stand out – open on Peking Road since 1989, it’s one of the city’s luxury OGs. Its reputation, of course, is unassailable – when the original The Langham opened in 1865 it was hailed as both London’s largest and Europe’s first “grand hotel”. So naturally we were prepared for...
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Mar 19, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Checking In: Mondrian Hong Kong
HONG KONG Yes, the name might remind you of a certain seminal 20th century artist, and no – they didn’t steal it. Think of this as the ultimate homage: the elemental, architectural aesthetic of Piet Mondrian – the pioneering Dutch abstract painter behind those big, bold, primary-colour cuboid patterns – so inspired the designers of the first Mondrian hotel, they put his name outside. Sitting pretty on LA’s Sunset Strip since 1985, that notorious celebrity hangout was later immortalised in...
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