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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
Sol Restaurant’s Jeonbok is built around abalone and seaweed. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography

Dish in focus: Jeonbok at Sol

Home to a mix of cultures, traditions and flavours, Macau was already a pioneer of fusion food long before the term for this creative cuisine was invented. Photo: Getty Images

International Cities of Gastronomy Fest Macao launches 10-day celebration

Supported byMacau Government Tourism Office
Chicken cordon bleu with Fontina cheese and sautéed porcini mushrooms at Hong Kong’s LucAle Italian restaurant. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 20-22

Indigenous fats like shea butter provide livelihoods for rural women producers in Africa, but are often unknown to or dismissed by consumers. Photo: Shutterstock

Young chefs are turning food traditions into tools for global change

Supported byMacau Government Tourism Office
A special dinner at Tosca di Angelo in Hong Kong, a collaboration with jewellery brand Damiani. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 26-29

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Rene Redzepi in Kyoto ahead of a Noma pop-up in the Japanese city. The chef-owner of the three-Michelin-star Copenhagen restaurant recently resigned after being accused of abusing his staff. While his behaviour is hard to defend, it is unlikely to spark a revolution against bad kitchen bosses. Photo: Noma
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Mouthing Off | Why Noma chef Rene Redzepi’s downfall won’t spark a restaurant revolution

Redzepi’s abuse at Noma is inexcusable but a #MeToo-style movement is unlikely among restaurant staff accustomed to pressure-cooker kitchens.

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Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 26-28

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 26-29

New Openings

Hong Kong’s hottest new openings, from Terrace Boulud to Ramenya Shima

Daniel Boulud finally makes his Hong Kong debut, Tokyo’s Ramenya Shima arrives, and LucAle moves to a new location.

Terrace Boulud on the rooftop of Landmark Prince’s. Photo: courtesy Terrace Boulud
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Hong Kong’s chefs receive top honours in 2026 Black Pearl Restaurant Guide

The Michelin-equivalent list published by Meituan knighted two Hong Kong chefs, Vicky Cheng and Terry Ho, with special awards.

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5 art-inspired menus to indulge in during Hong Kong’s Art Month

The city’s chefs and mixologists add to March’s colours with masterpieces like Banksy-style desserts, a Van Gogh highball and Warhol Wagyu.

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Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau 2026: China Tang gains a Michelin star

The Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau 2026 honours 98 restaurants, with 15 new to the list. Sol’s Kim Gwan-ju wins young chef award.

Some of the winners at the Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau 2026 awards ceremony at the Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau on March 19. Photo: Michelin Guide
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Dish in focus: Jeonbok at Sol

Head chef GwanJu Kim blends French techniques and Korean nostalgia in a Jeju abalone and seaweed dish that reframes ‘birthday‑soup’ comfort.

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.

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

For the Kazakh founders of Yurt, opening the new Central Asian restaurant was written in the stars.

Yurt is championing Central Asian cuisine in Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Your Perfect Week

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

Enjoy Max Levy’s pizza at 10-seat studio Salisterra, sip Magnolia Lab cocktails at Clan & Co. Lounge, or book into the new Capella at Galaxy Macau.

Max Levy (left) is one of the talents due to take up a residency at Chef’s Room. Photo: courtesy Chef’s Room
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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.

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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.

Shake Shack has a French onion line-up that reimagines classic French onion soup into stacked burgers. Photo: Handout
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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
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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

Pandan Man co-founders Brian Kwan (right) and Caroline Yuen are among Hong Kong’s F&B power couples who share space at work and home. Photo: Handout
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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.

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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’.

Spanish whole seabass at Aire in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighbourhood, where Eric Chan enjoys casual Spanish food. The chef also shares where he goes in the city for Cantonese comfort food and flavours from his childhood. Photo: Aire
Food and Drinks

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.

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