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100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory

100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory

Auspicious dishes of Ming Pavilion at Island Shangri-La Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Where to dine in style this Chinese New Year in Hong Kong

24 Jan 2025 - 12:45PM

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Presentation is half the wow factor in fine dining, as made clear by Estro, winner of 100 Top Tables’ Best Ambience award. Photo: Estro

100 Top Tables 2022 - The Awards

Which restaurants offer the best service and ambience in Hong Kong?

A special meal is not just about the food, but the whole dining experience – as 100 Top Tables 2022’s best service and ambience award winners prove

31 Mar 2022 - 11:04AM

100 Top Tables 2022 - The Awards

How Roganic is leading a sustainable dining revolution in Hong Kong

31 Mar 2022 - 11:06AM

Food and Drinks

Is African cuisine finally reaching the world stage?

23 Mar 2022 - 3:36PM

Food and Drinks

Five-star food at home: takeaways from top Hong Kong restaurants

Amid the ban on dine-in evening meals, some of Hong Kong’s best restaurants offer takeaway dinners to enjoy at home. We round up three of the best.

21 Mar 2022 - 1:15PM

Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong’s Taste of Singapore main course. Photo: Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong

Where to eat in Hong Kong

Where to eat in Hong Kong in March: yummy yakitori and a Seoul sensation

Mosu at M+ and Yakitori Yamato headline the month’s new openings as special menus celebrate International Women’s Day and Peruvian cuisine

1 Mar 2022 - 4:57PM

Food and Drinks

Why wood-fired cooking is reigniting the passions of the world’s top chefs

Ever since Francis Mallmann showed what could be done with some logs, a match and a pig in Netflix’s Chef’s Table, some of world’s top culinarians have gone on to embrace the primal cooking tradition

28 Feb 2022 - 8:00AM

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Joël Robuchon disciple opens ‘Yakifrenchy’ restaurant in Hong Kong

French chef Olivier Elzer looked to what he learned working for Joël Robuchon when it came to the concept for his new restaurant Clarence in Hong Kong.

24 Feb 2022 - 6:15PM

Executive chef Simon So (left) and Olivier Elzer at Clarence restaurant, in Central. Elzer created Clarence to present a lighter version of French food. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Food and Drinks

Where to eat in Hong Kong in February – expect tastes of Italy and Japan

Japanese and Italian openings dominate this month, with Trippa Milano’s Testina and Nagamoto, a new home for Michelin-starred Kashiwaya’s former head chef, being particularly exciting

7 Feb 2022 - 6:08PM

Food and Drinks

As Shanghai’s M on the Bund closes, what’s next for the woman behind it all?

Michelle Garnaut, who hosted royals, film stars and prime ministers at her fine dining restaurant, talks about her ups and downs, working out the best exit and starting a podcast series.

6 Jan 2022 - 7:15AM

Food and Drinks

The end of meat? Why fine-dining restaurants are going green

Around the world, some of the most famous fine dining restaurants – such as New York City icon Eleven Madison Park – are shifting to plant-based menus as our environmental concerns grow

1 Jan 2022 - 9:00AM

Vegetarian fine-dining by Andreas Caminada at Oz restaurant in Switzerland. Photo: Oz

Food and Drinks

How Hong Kong fine-dining chefs survived pandemic, on Discovery Channel

Hong Kong is the envy of the culinary world – its fine-dining restaurants are thriving, and more have opened, deep into a global pandemic. Discovery Channel goes in search of their secret sauce.

27 Dec 2021 - 2:27PMvideocam

Chefs Ricardo Chaneton and Hideaki Sato making their own chocolate from scratch. Photo: Discovery

Good Eating Edit

Good Eating Edit: Royal Delights offers illusion cakes and vegan treats

Royal Hotels Hong Kong’s new premium pastry brand opened its first shop at Mikiki Mall, offering Alice in Wonderland-themed pastries and sugar-free desserts for health-conscious diners

13 Dec 2021 - 2:40PM

Food and Drinks

Truffle hunting in Italy and where to eat them in Hong Kong

Black and white truffles from Italy, dug up in places like Alba and Chianti, are used in some of the world’s finest dishes, but experiencing them on home turf is tough to top.

6 Nov 2021 - 11:43AM

Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo

Video | Chef Gaggan on ‘food racism’, future of fine dining

11 Nov 2021 - 2:01PM

Talking Post: Chef Gaggan Anand on ‘food racism’ and the future of fine dining, with Yonden Lhatoo

Fuelling the Culinary Fire

This Michelin restaurant can pair seasonal French cuisine with over 1,000 varieties of wine

At L’Envol, guests are transported across the world through the chef’s interpretation of French haute cuisine using seasonal produce from Europe and Asia, which can be paired with over 1,000 different wines.

In partnership with:

Marriott Bonvoy

Chef Olivier Elzer, the culinary director of two-Michelin-starred French restaurant L’Envol at The St. Regis Hong Kong.

Food and Drinks

6 things you should never do at a fine dining restaurant

How not to be a problem diner in six easy steps: ask for the manager or sommelier, be upfront about your dietary restrictions and budget, and please don’t fight over the bill

26 Sep 2021 - 4:00AM

Fuelling the Culinary Fire

This Michelin restaurant is an opera, with a Sicilian chef who sees himself as the conductor

The director of one-Michelin-starred Tosca grew up by the sea, worked for renowned French chef Joël Robuchon and opened his own restaurants in Asia, culminating in his own brand of authentic Italian cuisine.

In partnership with:

Marriott Bonvoy

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Fuelling the Culinary Fire

Port wine in a Canto-style prawn dish? This Michelin chef serves it in Macau

Even after four decades in the business, chef Jackie Ho of Lai Heen Cantonese restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton, Macau, wants to learn more, boldly experimenting with flavours encountered on his travels.

In partnership with:

Marriott Bonvoy

Jackie Ho Hong-sing is executive chef of Cantonese restaurant Lai Heen at The Ritz-Carlton, Macau.

Fuelling the Culinary Fire

How one Michelin chef revives and renews forgotten Cantonese cuisine

The veteran chef at The St. Regis Hong Kong says the flavours of traditional Cantonese cuisine are slowly fading, but he is determined to breathe new life into the fare through artful presentations and tea pairings.

In partnership with:

Marriott Bonvoy

Hong Kong Fine Dining

Not drinking? These non-alcoholic food pairings will surprise you

Restaurants in Hong Kong pair non-alcoholic drinks and food with the same care they lavish on wine-and-food combinations. At one of them they start with the drink, then seek a dish to match.

13 Aug 2021 - 10:27AM

Fuelling the Culinary Fire

Jayson Tang of Man Ho Chinese Restaurant sees his Michelin kitchen as a ‘battlefield’

A childhood spent helping out at his parents’ street food stall taught the Hong Kong native how to connect with both his team and guests at the JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong’s one-Michelin-starred restaurant.

In partnership with:

Marriott Bonvoy

Executive chef Jayson Tang with his team at Man Ho Chinese Restaurant at the JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong.

Fuelling the Culinary Fire

Why the chef at Michelin-starred Tin Lung Heen wants every slice of bread cut the same size

The chef de cuisine at the The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong’s Cantonese fine-dining restaurant, who first learned how to cook by observing other chefs at work, says being uncompromising with his high standards got him to where he is today.

In partnership with:

Marriott Bonvoy

Paul Lau is chef de cuisine at Tin Lung Heen, a Cantonese fine-dining restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong.

Profile | Singapore chilli crab chef on Hong Kong diners’ taste for spicy food

Francis Chong, executive chef of Singaporean-Malaysian restaurant Can Lah, in Central’s IFC Mall, tells Bernice Chan about changing tastes in Hong Kong and the importance of serving dishes that look good.

1 Jun 2022 - 3:58PM

Food and Drinks

Is Korean produce the hottest new culinary trend?

High quality produce from South Korea’s seas and farms has been overlooked internationally, but the hallyu wave is helping chefs introduce its food to a wider audience

5 Jun 2021 - 9:12AM

Asia's 50 Best Restaurants

Profile | Asia’s Best Female Chef 2021 on why great cooking is as creative as painting

DeAille Tam, the Hong Kong-born executive chef and co-founder of Obscura in Shanghai, talks about being voted Asia’s Best Female Chef 2021, her Michelin star and why cooking is a form of artistic expression.

1 Jun 2022 - 3:58PM

Hong Kong-born DeAille Tam is executive chef and co-founder of Obscura in Shanghai. She was recently awarded Asia’s Best Female Chef 2021 by Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants. Photo: Obscura

Food and Drinks

Diner’s Diary | Nepali veterans of Hong Kong restaurant industry open Hungry Pal in SoHo

Three Nepalis with years of experience working in Hong Kong restaurants had the confidence despite the coronavirus pandemic to open Hungry Pal, a restaurant in SoHo with an international menu and some original cocktails.

10 Apr 2021 - 11:04PM

Clams Linguine, Hungry Pal in Hong Kong.
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Chinese cuisine

Chinese chefs are like musicians who can’t compose, says Jayson Tang

The 34-year-old executive chef at Man Ho Chinese Restaurant at the JW Marriott, which just won its first Michelin star, talks about fixing the Chinese cuisine training system, and taking the helm aged 29.

1 Jun 2022 - 3:58PM

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She is cooking’s Lara Croft - fine-dining chef Analiese Gregory

Kiwi chef Analiese Gregory talks about foraging, fishing, and hunting for ingredients, and her new cookbook ‘How Wild Things Are’. After working in high-end restaurants in the UK, Australia and France, she moved to Tasmania.

18 Mar 2021 - 2:30AM

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