Momentai has the only pool table in town
Momentai and Joe-San, waterfront restaurants owned by a trio of Sai Kung entrepreneurs, close on August 15, but at the same time the owners announce a new restaurant will shortly open.
Niko, Courtney and the 12-tap copper beer tower
The leases on both sites, 4000 sq ft Momentai and 2000 sq ft Joe-San, run out in the middle of August. “We will be closed for the rest of the year,” 25-year-old co-founder Niko Smirnoff said. Negotiations are going on with the landlord, the Government, and Niko is confident the leases will be renewed. It is not just a case of the highest bidder wins. Good tenants are given points weighing in their favour. There is no doubt Niko and his co-founders, Courtney Horwood and William Lam, have operated the seashore restaurants very well indeed. They are comfortably furnished with quirky art, the only pool table in town and the best lending library outside the public one. Momentai also has made a name for itself as the trendiest live music scene in Sai Kung.
As a closing down thank you Momentai are offering a free booze on 15 August – “There will be more booze than you can all drink, live music and plenty of good times to be had. So join us for one last blowout. Free flow starts around 7:30/8:00 and finishes…when it finishes”. Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/350305456808113
While we wait to learn the fate of the leases — hoping Niko is right — he tells us the group will soon open a new restaurant in Mongkok. To be named “Graceland”, it will be at a 1200 sq ft site on Yim Po Fong St and will have a Memphis, Tennessee, theme. “Graceland, where all will be received with southern soul food, a playful bar menu and the only vinyl spinning jukebox in Hong Kong.” Details at https://www.facebook.com/gracelandmongkok
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