Two Seventy Degrees Rooftop Bar By Harlan Goldstein

This bar seems to have a lot of potential. It’s got a huge, very under-​utilised space on the roof, where only a corner is taken up by lounge furniture (which, uncomfortably, didn’t have cushions on it the night I was there even though it wasn’t raining.) The drink menu features enough wine and cocktails to keep most happy, though it certainly won’t find a spot on my craft beer list. (Come on Hong Kong mainstream bars, catch on already.) A friend and I shared two cocktails, the Start Me Up which is a cucumber number, and the Ladies Night, a berryful one. Both were completely decent, not too cloyingly sweet nor skimping on the alcohol.
What I really appreciated was the view. I’m a view lover and this one shows a sweeping swath of Causeway Bay, Happy Valley, and out to Wan Chai on one side and North Point on the other. Despite the flashing lights of the CWB billboards right overhead, or perhaps because of them, it feels like it’s floating in the middle of that darkly urban cityscape that typifies so much of HK. I enjoyed sipping from my martini glass while peering down at the office buildings slowly vacating and apartments slowly filling.

Upon reaching this building, hit R in the elevator to enter.
This place has a lot of potential because of the view, but they need a lot of work.
Visited ~10/​1030PM on a Saturday night and they only had seating for half the deck. Random DJ spinning random music.
Service was slow but drinks were reasonably priced. Ordered a ginger infused cocktail for ~100HKD which is a bargain for a rooftop bar. Wine was ~120HKD per glass.
Everyone present were locals.
Seats with cushions were dirty and belonged in a garage versus the Rooftop Bar above Penthouse by Harlan Goldstein.

It’s a 3 star bar + 1 star view.
When you talk about the rooftop bars in HK, we’ll have the usual suspects like Sevva, Ozone, Wooloomooloo (in Wanchai) and Azure. If you throw in the bars with good view, either from inside a tall building, or an outdoor podium, you’ll have Aqua, Felix, Café Grey, Red @ IFC, Armani/​Prive, Hooray, etc. There are certainly more than enough for you to choose from.
This bar has everything they promise, and nothing more than that. They have a 270 degree view from the HK side, overseeing North Point to Happy Valley, with the whole Kowloon under your view. It is nothing less of amazing. It is a rooftop, as promised too, which you’ll see a massive billboard behind you, written «MIDTOWN», which is the name of this new building. It is a bar, it gives you alcohol. It’s «by Harlan Goldstein», too, just like the Penthouse right down stairs.
But don’t expect more than that. It doesn’t have DJ or live band here, nor proper washroom — you have to go back downstairs. The rooftop is rather big, but tables and seats are only filled half of it, probably because they don’t have the personnel or infrastructure to serve the whole floor yet. And they are interesting lack of a good crowd — there are empty tables always available. I can’t imagine any of those rooftop bars I mentioned above would be less busy than a full house, but hey, if I can have the view all by my own and not have to fight for it, I’m definitely not complaining.
All in all, it is a very new bar, so everything is still developing, including the crowd. I’m sure it will get busier soon. We ordered a bottle of wine among three of us, which on the higher end of a standard «Causeway Bay» price tag, but I guess you have to pay for the «Goldstein premium» here.