TMK Rap & Rolls

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Now open, TMK Rap & Rolls joins the Hong Kong restaurant scene just in time for the revival of dining hours with a uniquely-styled hip hop temakeria perfectly made for nourishing meals, great drinks and late nights out. Serving hand-crafted temaki alongside TMK signature dishes for lunch and dinner, ...More

Now open, TMK Rap & Rolls joins the Hong Kong restaurant scene just in time for the revival of dining hours with a uniquely-styled hip hop temakeria perfectly made for nourishing meals, great drinks and late nights out. Serving hand-crafted temaki alongside TMK signature dishes for lunch and dinner, TMK Rap & Rolls brings its celebrated motto of living life the fun way to the guests of Wan Chai’s buzzing Starstreet Precinct.

“We created TMK as a lively and entertaining venue that guests would never want to leave, a celebration of fresh flavours and alternative music right in the heart of the city,” says Manuel Palacio, Co-founder and CEO of Pirata Group. “Our second venue takes inspiration from the music I am most passionate about, the golden era of hip from the West Coast to the East Coast of the USA. It is a very personal project to me, as I used to own a hip hop record label ‘Quattro Records’ back in Spain, and I hope that our guests will come to love the experience we have created for them here in Wan Chai.”

The striking interior and bold exterior presence of TMK Rap & Rolls is the first project completed by Pirata Group’s own design team. Celebrating the sound, culture and energy of the golden era of hip hop, the venue is packed to the absolute brim with design and material flourishes that reference this iconic period in music history. From the wall of forty vintage boomboxes and neon lights that greet guests upon arrival, through to custom-made illustrations of celebrated hip hop figures such as Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy and LL Cool J that adorn the walls based on original early 1980’s Bronx hip hop flyers, and the over five-hundred vintage and custom cassettes lining the sushi counter, the venue is a rich visual spectacle with the soundtrack to match. This eye-catching style is expressed further outdoors, where a mural installation by Elsa Jeandedieu Studio covers the restaurant exterior in 1980s rap lyrics alongside artwork made of The Notorious B.I.G. and Salt-N-Pepa. (Jul 2021)

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