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Hong Kong chefs

Hong Kong chefs
Get to know Hong Kong’s best chefs, from icons of Michelin-starred fine dining restaurants to talented young chefs in the kitchen.
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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
A Mediterranean Spring Symphony is the new à la carte menu at La Petite Maison in Hong Kong. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 13-15

Little Cove is one of many restaurants with roots in Sai Kung, Hong Kong. Photo: Facebook

How Sai Kung became an F&B launch pad for some of the city’s biggest names

DDL Old Fashioned by Terrible Baby is a tribute to bar manager Axel Gonzalez’s roots. Photo: Handout

Drink in Focus: DDL Old Fashioned at Terrible Baby

Dong Ling Cha is a highlight from Terrible Baby’s new menu in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 12-14

Poni, a bistro with long tables, is suitable for group dining. Photo: Handout

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Yamamoto Hamburg’s spicy mentaiko hamburg. Photo: courtesy Yamamoto Hamburg
New Openings

Hong Kong’s hot new openings, from Yamamoto Hamburg to Chouchou

Head to Yamamoto Hamburg for Japanese comfort food, Chouchou for French staples with flair, and Kuke Shokudo for Kansai-style oden.

Food and Drinks

Why horse meat and nomadic tea rituals anchor this new eatery in Central

Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong and Macau, March 8-14

Food and Drinks

How Sai Kung became an F&B launch pad for some of the city’s biggest names

A number of family restaurants took off in this seaside neighbourhood before becoming household names with venues across the city.

Little Cove is one of many restaurants with roots in Sai Kung, Hong Kong. Photo: Facebook
Food and Drinks

Dish in Focus: Dark chocolate covered Medjool dates at Migas Hong Kong

At the H Queen’s restaurant, Migas Hong Kong, chef Jarrod Verbiak distils the concept’s cross-Mediterranean spirit into two-bite ‘bonbons’.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 6-8

Check out three-Michelin-starred Amber’s refreshed look, Shake Shack’s limited-time Korean-French menu, and Marmo Bistro’s brunch with a Parisian vibe.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 27-March 1

Indulge in a Hokkien cuisine pop-up dinner at Island Shangri-La, an afternoon tea overlooking Victoria Harbour, and a quiet slice of cake at home.

Ming Pavilion’s Beng Hiang pop-up at Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Can Cadbury chocolate-fed Wagyu outshine Japan’s finest beef?

Raising cattle on confectionery might sound crazy, but to Australian Wagyu producer Mayura Station, it’s ingenious and makes a difference.

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Dish in focus: crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock

Chef Palash Mitra’s signature crab claw porichettu is a richly layered curry of mud and snow crab cooked in a traditional earthen pot.

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Why do Chinese love water chestnuts? All about the lucky ‘horse’s hoof’

A humble and vastly underrated ingredient, water chestnuts are used in a popular Lunar New Year dessert and also have many health benefits.

The water chestnut, a versatile ingredient known as “horse’s hoof”, is celebrated for its crisp texture and auspicious meaning in Lunar New Year dishes. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Food and Drinks

Where a Hong Kong chef loves to eat dim sum, hotpot, pizza and more

Keith Yam of Tuber Umberto Bombana and Cannubi reveals his Hong Kong restaurant hotspots for Italian, Japanese, Chinese and more.

Roasted goose puff from Man Ho at the JW Marriott Hotel in Admiralty, Hong Kong, a favourite dinner restaurant for chef Keith Yam of Tuber Umberto Bombana and Cannubi. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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He saw Guangzhou as a challenge. Now, his restaurant has a Michelin star

Chef Louis Tam’s Chowa earned a Michelin star in Guangzhou, defying the city’s fine dining norms with his rebellious Japanese-French cuisine.

Food and Drinks

Word on the StrEAT: 6 F&B power couples on what love looks like after service

Penicillin’s Agung and Laura Prabowo, Dieci’s Paolo Olivieri and Hanna Lee, and more on married life, work and everything in between.

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Hotel chef’s Hong Kong picks for Italian fine dining, French food and more

Genoa native Fabio Mariella shares his favourite restaurants for top Italian dishes, French chicken, dim sum, Peking duck and Indian.

Tagliolini with white truffle at Italian restaurant 8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana, where Holiday Inn Golden Mile’s executive chef Fabio Mariella goes for “something different”. He also shares his Hong Kong picks for “simple but good” clay pot rice, dim sum, Peking duck, French and Indian food. Photo: Otto e Mezzo Bombana
New Openings

Hong Kong’s hottest openings, from Ébauche to the Hilton’s new Motto hotel

The team behind Mt. Yotei launches high-level izakaya Kyanbasu, while Dieci serves thoughtful Italian cuisine in a space reminiscent of a 1970s trattoria.

Kinmedai with lemon leaf and zucchini at Ébauche. Photo: Ébauche
Food and Drinks

Dish in Focus: Ga quay Hoi An at Sep

Chef Dobee Lam reimagines Hoi An’s free-range chicken salad as a wood-fired roast at Hong Kong’s Sep, blending Vietnamese street soul with live-fire precision.

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‘Excellent’ oysters, ‘deeply satisfying’ congee: where a chef eats in Hong Kong

Eric Chan of Pedder Chinese shares his favourite Hong Kong restaurants for Spanish food, chicken congee and his ‘guilty pleasure’.

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11 new Hong Kong restaurants and bars to try in February 2026

New openings include the new branch of a Korean pizza chain, a Japanese gelato joint, a borsch specialist and two French restaurants.

Hot udon with beef and burdock tempura at Daichi no Udon. The Fukuoka-style noodle restaurant in Tai Kok Tsui is just one of the exciting new openings in Hong Kong in February 2026, which also include an Eastern European comfort-food spot and a special kind of matcha joint. Photo: Daichi no Udon
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Exclusive | Hong Kong chef wins Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants’ first Champions of Change Award

Sustainability pioneer Peggy Chan talks about her mission and what winning the Champions of Change award means for her and the industry.

Your Perfect Week

The best things to do in Hong Kong, January 25-31

Enjoy new media art courtesy of Austria’s Ars Electronica, a sensory 8-drink menu at Quinary, and an exhibition celebrating time from Van Cleef & Arpels.

Food and Drinks

Dish in Focus: Le Caviar Impérial at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon

Joël Robuchon’s most recognisable signature layers caviar, crab and lobster jelly into a precise manifesto of product-first simplicity.

L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon’s Le Caviar Impérial in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
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On the Menu | 2016 was a great time for Hong Kong’s dining scene. Which openings survived?

As the 2016 social media trend picks up, Charmaine Mok looks back at notable restaurant openings that year and which are still with us.

A bowl of wagyu beef boat noodles from Samsen in Wanchai, Hong Kong. The Thai noodle bar opened its first branch, in Wan Chai, in 2016, and has since opened two more. As the 2016 nostalgic social media trend gains steam, we look back at the best of Hong Kong’s dining openings that year. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 23-25

Head to Tai Kwun this Friday for sushi and sashimi, channel Aussie vibes with a sausage sizzle on Saturday, and swing by Festival Walk’s newest bakery on Sunday.

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He wasn’t allowed to grill for years. That’s how he mastered yakitori

The chef behind Tokyo’s Torishiki brings his gospel of succulent skewers, steady discipline and generous mentorship to Torikaze in Hong Kong.

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In the heat of competition, this young chef kept a cool head

Now sous chef at Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred Belon, the 30-year-old Indonesian-Canadian once wanted to be an engineer.

Chef Ardy Ferguson (centre) and his mentor, chef Vicky Lau (right), at the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition in Milan, Italy. Photo: courtesy S.Pellegrino
Food and Drinks

Why Dali in China’s Yunnan province is a great place for food adventurers

Yunnan’s climate and geography are ideal for growing a wide range of produce, and chefs in Dali are taking the cuisine to the next level.

Kang Hui (right) runs a cooking lesson at the Linden Centre in Xizhou, a town located just outside Dali in China’s Yunnan province. Photo: Xiong Yang
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Sourdough the star at Paul Lafayet co-founder’s new Hong Kong bakery concept

Social Goods sees Christophe Younes’ love of health and baked treats come together, with his mother helping realise his sourdough vision.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 16-18

Indulge in Michelin-starred Huaiyang cuisine, a French free-flow champagne brunch with theatrical desserts, and a royal Indian banquet.

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