Bar Trigona, Four Seasons Kuala Lumpur

Bar Trigona is the award-winning bar at Four Seasons Hotel Kuala Lumpur, and one of the few Malaysian rooms to make Asia's 50 Best Bars. Its menu, Nectar of Time, is arranged as a progression through an evening — you start at First Light, work through progressively deeper chapters, and finish with nightcaps and dessert drinks in After Dark.

What to Order at Bar Trigona

The Trigona Bee's Knees is the signature that survives every menu change — a refined take on the gin-and-honey classic, built on trigona honey whose oaky richness is infused with coffee beans from the My Liberica estate in Johor.

The bar's habit of finding local substitutes is where it gets interesting. With the dirty martini back in fashion, the team went looking for an alternative to olives and landed on Nyonya acar, the Peranakan pickling tradition, which is a more Malaysian answer than most bars would attempt.

Address: Level 6B, Four Seasons Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Ampang.

For cocktails in KLCC or one of Asia's best bars in Kuala Lumpur, Bar Trigona is the benchmark.