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100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword. Here’s how Hong Kong’s fine dining is improving its green policies: from Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental and Michelin-starred Mono to Vicky Lau’s Mora, Roganic and the Marriott group. Photo: Ting Lung Heen

How Hong Kong’s fine dining scene is getting greener – at last

The staff of Socio at the the 100 Top Tables Tables 2025 Unveiling Ceremony and Awards. Photo: Jordan Chan

Celebrating 100 Top Tables’ top restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and Macau

Bar Leone co-founder Lorenzo Antinori. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Why neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong are gaining popularity

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Fresh handmade cosmetics company Lush has launched an Easter collection, available at Hong Kong and Macau stores this weekend. Photo: Lush
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, April 11-13

Quaff some Pharrell Williams champagne, learn how to care better for your dog, revisit an iconic Hong Kong movie and more this weekend.

Allspice and how cooks use it, including a recipe for hot cross buns

Hong Kong

Need a caffeine fix? Try the Coffee HK x Tokyo Coffee Festival

100 Top Tables

Drink in Focus: Earl Grey Caviar Martini at Quinary

The multisensory cocktail, created almost 13 years ago, revolutionised Hong Kong’s bar scene with its unique blend of flavours and visual appeal.

The Earl Grey Caviar Martini is one of Quinary’s bestsellers for a reason. Photo: Handout
France

How legendary French chef Paul Bocuse’s legacy lives on in Lyon

The late ‘pope of gastronomy’, whose Restaurant Paul Bocuse held three Michelin stars for 55 years, can still be felt throughout Lyon.

Singapore

Singapore’s food hub status at risk amid wave of restaurant closures

Rising costs and thinning patrons hammer operators, including hawker stalls and Michelin-starred eateries.

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Italy

This is the ‘latex chef’ and his extreme set menus push diners’ limits

Giuliano Baldessari of Italy’s Michelin-star Aqua Crua restaurant wears a catsuit that dampens his senses so he can focus on flavour.

“Latex chef” Giuliano Baldessari, wearing his signature black rubber catsuit, prepares food in the kitchen at Aqua Crua in Barbarano Vicentino, Italy. Photo: Aqua Crua
Easter

13 Hong Kong Easter treats, from themed brunches to hot cross buns

As the Easter long weekend approaches, expect a smorgasbord of sweet treats and holiday activities in Hong Kong.

Best restaurants in Hong Kong

Discover chef Sandy Keung’s unconventional approach to cuisine

Hong Kong financier-turned-chef behind Table, which has just relocated, on why she can’t and won’t leave the restaurant business.

Food and agriculture

Foie gras without cruel force-feeding but tastes the same? Scientists do it

A research team says its alternative foie-gras-like pâté made without painful force-feeding is indistinguishable from the regular product.

An employee force-feeds a duck at a farm in New York state in the US. A German-Danish research team has presented a method to produce a foie-gras-like pâté without the painful force-feeding but which tastes the same as if the ducks and geese had been force-fed, they say. Photo: AFP
Times Square Hong Kong

Spring Menus at Times Square, Causeway Bay Capture the Season’s Freshness

At Times Square, a range of restaurants is offering special spring menus and dishes From sweet shrimp to geoduck, and from chicken in Shaoxing wine to fresh fruit soft-serve, this spring’s delicacies make for a vibrant start for the months of regeneration and growth ahead

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Fame and celebrity

Meet chef Mario Carbone’s celebrated TikTok publicist fiancée, Cait Bailey

Everyone from Kim Kardashian and Travis Kelce to Barack Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio frequents Mario Carbone’s restaurants – but in 2018 one visitor caught his eye more than most.

Asia travel

Expo 2025 side trip: the Japanese island where onions reign supreme

Overlooking Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, Awaji Island’s soil, rich in volcanic and oceanic minerals, produces exquisite produce – including onions.

Hong Kong

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 10-12

It’s guest shifts galore as The St. Regis Bar Hong Kong welcomes mixologists from sister properties, Quinary brings Prohibition-style drinks from Soko, and Bar Leone welcomes Toronto’s Bar Pompette.

The Garnet Sour from The St. Regis Bar Macao. Photo: Handout
The Philippines

There’s no Jollibee in Korea but this fried chicken joint is very close

Members of Seoul’s Filipino community are lauding FRYb’s chicken dishes for giving them a taste of Jollibee nostaglia. We paid it a visit.

Southern American chicken and gravy at FRYb, a fried chicken restaurant in Seoul, South Korea, that serves American food with a distinct hint of the Philippines. Photo: Instagram/fry.bistro
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for April 11–13

Enjoy an interactive experience like no other at Tomorrow Maybe, taste the best Hanwoo beef at Rosewood, or stick to tradition this Sunday with a proper Australian roast.

What to do in Hong Kong

Where a coffee lover in Hong Kong eats seafood and drinks cocktails

Savoury cocktails, fish congee, late-night dim sum – Sophie Chan shares her favourite places in Hong Kong. Plus a fish bar in Copenhagen.

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Donald Trump

Mouthing Off | Could Trump’s tariffs mean cheaper avocados and olive oil for Hong Kong?

Andrew Sun sees a possible silver lining to the new US tariffs that could mean spending less than HK$100 on extra virgin olive oil again.

Hong Kong consumers could stand to benefit from Trump’s new tariffs if it means an oversupply of food previously destined for the United States, Andrew Sun says. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong dining & recommendations

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, April 6-12

Premium shabu-shabu, Spanish bites, Franco-Japanese cheese omakase … and you can work it all off with sessions at a new gym in Central.

Hong Kong workers/labour rights

Deliveroo riders to take legal action over compensation as it exits Hong Kong

Sixteen couriers plan to file claims with Labour Tribunal over employee entitlements.

Wellness

Take a photo of what food you have and let AI work out what you can cook

You’ve got the ingredients but what to prepare for you or your family? Free AI meal planning generators and apps can help get recipes.

You can give photos of the food in your fridge or cupboards to AI tools and get them to develop meal plans based on what you have on hand. Photo: Shutterstock
Japan

Japanese bar district gets bilingual wristbands to gauge revellers’ mood

Six colour-coded wristbands help drinkers start or avoid conversations in Noge, a neighbourhood in Yokohama dotted with bars and pubs.

Tonight’s Wristband declares what sort of mood the drinker is in. Photo: Instagram/SeeYouInNoge
Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, April 6-12

Try the new menu at one of the city’s top restaurants or some music-inspired cocktails, enjoy a lively Wan Chai street market and comedy film fun.

Hong Kong chefs

What can Hong Kong’s top pizza chefs learn from Asia-Pacific’s No 1?

Four Hong Kong pizza parlours have been ranked among the best in Asia-Pacific. What they do well and what sets Tokyo rival in first place apart.

What to do in Hong Kong

9 places Coldplay fans and others can eat near Kai Tak Stadium

If you’re seeing bands play at Kai Tak Stadium you can find Thai, Mexican, burgers, soups and much else to eat, all within walking distance.

Coucou Reserve offers hotpot set menus, including Wagyu beef and premium seafood, designed for different group sizes. Photo: Airside
Asia travel

China’s salt capital was built on the white gold, as was its cuisine

The spiciest city in spicy Sichuan, Zigong was once home to an empire of salt and has a history of high- and low-end cuisine, starting with ‘Toilet Rabbit’.

A salt drilling field near Zigong, Sichuan, photographed by Arnold Heim in 1929. Photo: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Image Archive
Wellness

Crying out for a no-tears way to slice onions? How to make it happen

A professor of botany explains why onions make us cry, and we consider some of the ways you can try to stop the tears flowing.

United States

Cronuts so yesterday now there’s croissant pizza, cookie, brownie, hot dog

The pastry of New York is the bagel, right? Not so fast. What about the croissant crossovers, from pistachio fillings to pigs-in-a-blanket?

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