Park South Description

After opening at the end of last year as a casual cocktail hangout with bar snacks, the creative team that owns the trendy establishment Park South in Changning recently brought menu creator and chef Andrew Moo (Yaya’s, and menu design for Candor, The Cannery, and Duli) on board, along with Zikker (previously of Slurp & Sip) to revamp both the food and drink offerings. 

Owned by a handful of young architects and designers, with Minnan 闽南 backgrounds, making their first foray into the world of F&B, the space is split between the restaurant on the entrance floor and a bar – called Bark – on the second. As the bar is outfitted entirely in different shades of wood, the ‘bark’ in the name is of the wood (not woof) variety. 

From eccentric infused liqueur cocktail ingredients matched with imaginative dishes to retro hip décor further enhanced by mismatched eclectic dishware, all to a backdrop of quirky throwback Taiwanese tunes, the restaurant concept is cohesively executed. 

And the result is a playful sipping and snacking experience that orbits around the central Minnan diaspora (referring to those from Taiwan, Fujian, and parts of Guangdong) focus.