Boozy green juices and New York bodega-style sandwiches by the team behind Shady Acres—all in Kennedy Town
The team behind Peel Street’s favourite bar, Shady Acres, has been busy. Since the opening of Shady Acres in 2019, the team has opened Honky Tonks Tavern in 2020, followed by Quality Goods Club in 2021. Now, the team continues to take Hong Kong’s F&B scene by storm, opening up two new ventures in Kennedy Town.
The first venture, which opened earlier this month, is Juicy—a playful juice bar located across from Kennedy Town’s famous stone wall banyan trees on Forbes Street. This weekend, on February 19 and 20, Juicy will be having their official opening party launch and celebrating the event by giving out free truffle cheese toasties with every juice purchase.
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“The space where Juicy is located now used to be the bar To Be Frank, which is owned by Hughie Doherty, a friend and also the owner of Print House Hong Kong, which prints all the tees for Shady Acres and Honky Tonks. Keeping it all in the family,” says Becky Lam, one of the partners behind Juicy and Shady Acres’ projects. Doherty, who opened To Be Frank with two other partners in 2019, decided to pass the business to the Shady's crew when his partners left Hong Kong, focusing his time on other projects instead, he tells Tatler.
If opening a boozy juice bar sounds out of character for the team behind Shady Acres, that’s because it is. With Covid-19 cases higher than it’s ever been in Hong Kong right now, the government has stopped dine-in services at restaurants and bars after 6pm. For businesses such as Quality Goods Club, which operates as a live-music-restaurant-meets-night-club, the Shady’s owners struggled to find work for their employees…which is where Juicy comes in.
“With Quality Goods Club unable to open, Juicy is staffed and run by members of the Quality Goods team so we can maintain salaries and livelihoods,” says Lam.
