Kilo Description

Walking through the nondescript building’s entrance into Wuding Lu’s newest “speakeasy-style” izakaya, Kilo, feels about how Jeff Bridges’ character felt in the movie Tron when he was transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer – it’s shadowy, mostly onyx-hued, crisscrossed with glowing crimson lighting, deep bass beats and a pattern of exactly 1,000 squares throughout – hence the name kilo, meaning ‘one thousand’ in Greek. 

The back wall hosts a full-length screen running across it displaying ever-moving digital art that projects until it’s late enough for KTV to start. And the main bar is lined with over a hundred perfectly symmetrical rectangles, each holding just one bottle. It’s got a whole futuristic, metaverse-meets-underground-Berlin-nightclub vibe going on. 

The Jiangxi-born owner is a designer by trade, but branched out into F&B with his first venue, 极暮会席, an omakase restaurant located less than 100 meters away. Kilo is his more approachable, everyday izakaya, that hosts roughly 40 guests, plus an additional two VIP rooms and a newly opened speakeasy whisky bar – Noki – upstairs.  (No key, noki, get it?)

The menu is what you expect from an izakaya – primarily chicken with a smattering of beef, seafood and pigeon, plus veggies, snacks, sashimi and carbs.