i. Biography
Before Lorenzo Antinori became co-founder and mixologist of Bar Leone in Hong Kong in 2023, the work already ran through a sequence of bars that trained pace, precision, and service under pressure. The Italian bartender put the turn plainly: “Once I returned to Italy, I just realised how much more fun bartending was than law, so I decided to pursue it as a career.” Read that way, the line is less about romance than about a trade chosen and then carried from room to room, city to city, until the accumulation of shifts became a method.
Coming Up
From there, the work moved through a sharp sequence of rooms: bartender at Bars in London, bartender at Dandelyan in London, bartender at American Bar at The Savoy in London, bartender at Charles H. at Four Seasons in Seoul, and Bartender/manager at Argo in Hong Kong. Taken together, the list shows a bartender built by repetition across different bar cultures, with each stop adding another frame of reference. By the time he reached Hong Kong, the city had already become a place of sustained work rather than a brief posting. From 2019, his role at Caprice Bar placed Lorenzo Antinori inside a setting where precision and atmosphere had to sit together every night. In 2023, that experience carried forward into Bar Leone, where he became co-founder and mixologist and moved from operating within another room to shaping one of his own.
Where They Are Now
Since 2023, Lorenzo Antinori has been co-founder and mixologist at Bar Leone in Hong Kong. The role combines authorship with day-to-day service, keeping the work close to the bar rather than at a distance from it. In practice, that means the habits built across earlier posts now sit inside a single project, with the same attention to pace, balance, and service discipline. The route from Rome to London, Seoul, and Hong Kong gives his present work a clear lineage. Those cities are not separate chapters so much as successive training grounds, and Hong Kong now holds the most permanent weight in the story. The city appears not as backdrop but as the place where those earlier skills were gathered into a settled base.
Signature
Lorenzo's signature dishes include bellini.
In Their Words “Once I returned to Italy, I just realised how much more fun bartending was than law, so I decided to pursue it as a career.”
Honors
The dated milestones that frame Lorenzo Antinori’s career are his 2021 role at Argo and his 2023 start as co-founder and mixologist at Bar Leone. These markers set the shape of an arc that moved from early service work into a founding role, with Hong Kong at the centre of that progression.
Profile updated July 2026
FAQ
Asked of Lorenzo
What is Lorenzo Antinori's current role?
Lorenzo Antinori is Co-founder and Mixologist.
Where did Lorenzo Antinori work before?
Earlier in their career, Lorenzo Antinori worked at Bars in London, Dandelyan, and American Bar at The Savoy.
