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REPLY BAR · EST. 2020

Every city deserves
its own reply.

A living cocktail archive, shaped by place. Memory, culture and emotion become drinks—restrained, layered and never superficial.

The handwritten 001 to 100 cocktail archive at Reply Bar

001—100A living cocktail archive

01 / LOCATIONS

Three cities. No copy and paste.

Shanghai welcomes walk-ins through the live queue. Chengdu accepts online reservations. Beijing is in preparation.

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Beijing

Reply Bar Beijing

Opening details to be announced

To be announcedIn preparation

02 / COCKTAIL ARCHIVE

One hundred drinks. Fifteen in the present tense.

One hundred handwritten cocktails form Reply Bar’s working archive. Fifteen return each week: some reappear, some step away, and the archive keeps answering the present.

Reply Bar

REPLY BAR COCKTAIL ARCHIVE

OPEN INDEX001—020 / 100

03 / CITY RESPONSES

Not a branch. A response.

Reply Bar is site-specific. The idea stays open enough for a city to change it.

Reply Bar Shanghai interior

SHANGHAI · 2024

Reply to the Art of Beverage

A compact room for direct exchange. Cocktails become a canvas; alcohol becomes the medium.
Reply Bar Chengdu interior

CHENGDU · 2025

Reply to the Future of Flavor

A larger, layered room—and a base for flavor research, beverage design and cross-disciplinary work.
Reply Bar co-founders Luca Cinalli and Sam Kuan
LUCA CINALLI & SAM KUANCo-founders · Reply Bar

04 / THE NAME, THE CORE

Reply Bar takes its name from response.

Sam Kuan and Luca Cinalli founded Reply Bar in Taipei in 2020. Their shared method brings together creativity and sustainability, food and drink, spatial systems and service.

The work is restrained but layered, approachable but never superficial. Production is simplified so flavor, balance and the guest remain visible.

Sam Kuan

Co-founder

Luca Cinalli

Co-founder & Beverage Director · Reply Bar

05 / THE PEOPLE

A city answers through the people behind its bar.

Reply Bar changes with place, but the work remains personal: listening, making, tasting and serving in real time.

Ian, Reply Bar Shanghai
IanReply Bar · Shanghai
Freddy, Reply Bar Shanghai
FreddyReply Bar · Shanghai
Luca Cinalli, Reply Bar Shanghai
Luca CinalliReply Bar · Shanghai
Team member, Reply Bar Chengdu
Team memberReply Bar · Chengdu
Team member, Reply Bar Chengdu
Team memberReply Bar · Chengdu
Team member, Reply Bar Chengdu
Team memberReply Bar · Chengdu

06 / SELECTED RECOGNITION

Reply Bar

  1. China’s Cocktail and Spirits List Awards · 2 Star Bar of the Year

  2. China’s Cocktail and Spirits List Awards · 2 Star Bar of the Year

  3. World’s 50 Best Bars · Best Bar Design Award 2024 — Asia Top 3

06 / CONTACT

Start with the city.