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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.
highlights from
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 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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Xiamen-Style “popiah” at Ming Pavilion in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
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Dish in Focus: Xiamen-style popiah at Ming Pavilion

At Ming Pavilion, chef Jack Lam Yeung redefines Hokkien cuisine with new flavours while celebrating Fujian’s culinary heritage.

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Peru’s Maido tops World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, Hong Kong’s Wing is 11th

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 20-22

New Openings

Hong Kong new openings, from a refreshed Chinese favourite to an iconic teahouse

China Tang re-emerges after a renovation, Lin Heung Lau opens in Tsim Sha Tsui, and Aer brings smooth beats, tipples and comfort food to SoHo.

Interiors at Aer in Hong Kong. Photo: courtesy Aer
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Meeting father and son at Hong Kong’s legendary Seventh Son restaurant

This Father’s Day, we hear from Chui Wai-kwan and his son; Chui is the seventh son of Fook Lam Moon founder Chui Fook-chuen.

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Chef of Hong Kong’s 3-Michelin-star Ta Vie on his go-to restaurants

Hideaki Sato, chef of Ta Vie in Hong Kong, is a fan of simple fare, dim sum and roast goose, and classic and high-end French dishes.

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The flavours of Hong Kong? 5 up-and-coming chefs weigh in

Inspired variously by street food, Cantopop and locally caught fish, chefs put new and flavourful spins on familiar Hong Kong dishes.

Butter-aged lobster at Hong Kong restaurant Ankoma. Photo: Ankoma
Art Basel

Is food art? How Hong Kong creatives are bridging the gap

What happens when culinary creations meet artistic vision? From chefs to photographers and artists, a new wave of Hong Kong creatives are exploring the compelling intersection of food and art.

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Hong Kong restaurant China Tang reopens with an inspired new menu

Executive chef Menex Cheung is guiding David Tang’s iconic restaurant into 2025 with fresh twists on Cantonese cuisine.

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Dish in Focus: Farmhouse Productions tomatoes at Roganic

Chef Adam Catterall champions sustainable dining through his zero-waste menus and relationships with local suppliers.

Farmhouse tomatoes in perilla and coal with fermented pistachio, at Roganic in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 30 – June 1

Enjoy Yat Tung Heen’s zongzi, try Ruen’s new hawker-style menu, and indulge in a 7-course Black Pearl Tasting Menu at Celestial Court.

Ruen in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui East has unveiled a new menu inspired by the buzzing hawker dishes of Bangkok. Photo: Handout
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Cold, or fried with XO sauce? Creative ways to serve sticky rice dumplings

Drizzled in honey, fried with a fish sauce dip. Hong Kong chefs share inventive ways to serve Dragon Boat Festival snack we usually steam.

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Where a French chef eats reminders of home in Hong Kong

Rex Wine & Grill’s Thomas Caro shares his favourite places to eat in Hong Kong for ‘heavenly’ pizza, French pastries and Cantonese classics.

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How Hong Kong restaurant Gróa grew from smoothie bars and bento

Wellness entrepreneur Cheman Cheung on why his new Hong Kong restaurant, Gróa, in Repulse Bay, aims to not just feed but rejuvenate diners.

Gróa in Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, is a mix of natural wood and green tones. Photo: Gróa
Food and Drinks

Chef Marino D’Antonio on his culinary journey from Italy to Beijing and Macau

After working with Umberto Bombana in Beijing, D’Antonio is once again partnering with the legendary chef – this time in Macau.

Marino D’Antonio, the new executive chef at 8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana at Galaxy Macau. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

3 new pastry chefs in Hong Kong who are redefining desserts

‘Sweet but not too sweet’ – Eve Minialai of Louise, Leo Faler of Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic, and Astoria Koh of Caprice rise to the challenge.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 23-25

Take shelter from the summer heat this weekend with a seasonal Japanese bento, Wagyu burgers and a musical Italian feast.

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Inside Wild Yeast’s reinvention of Taizhou cuisine

When we hear ‘regional cuisine’ we think ‘authenticity’ – but tradition is only a starting point for Lin Zihan of Hangzhou’s Wild Yeast.

Steamed donghai pomfret with chicken fat and hua diao rice wine served at Wild Yeast. Photo: Penn Wang
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 16-18

Round off your week with steak night, start your Saturday slow with a coffee and a pastry, and celebrate with a Spanish fiesta this Sunday.

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Shanghainese classics, Cantonese chef – just don’t call it fusion

There are 77 items on the ambitious menu of Shanghai Plus – and it’s light and healthy, perfect for the modern diner.

Food and Drinks

Where Polish chef in Hong Kong eats lunch and late-night Japanese

Soho House chef Krzysztof Czerwinski shares his top picks for lunch, Italian food and after-hours Japanese, and a ‘charming’ Cantonese joint.

Okonomiyaki at Kozy Okonomi-yaki Teppan-yaki restaurant. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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Bistro Jean-Pierre brings taste of Paris to Hong Kong, plus more new openings

Pumpkin gnocchi at Primo Posto Ristoro, Parisian bistro classics at Jean-Pierre, curry noodles at Mama Tiger – and a new Jollibee.

Jean-Pierre revives Parisian bistros of yore. Photo: Jean-Pierre
Food and Drinks

Vancouver bakeries didn’t satisfy Hongkonger so she opened her own

When Stephanie Wong shut her Hong Kong restaurant she needed a breather. Now she is back in the kitchen, having opened a bakery in Vancouver.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 9-12

From a pinwheel of Italian appetisers to dim sum on a harbour cruise, make the most of Mother’s Day weekend.

Food and Drinks

China’s Black Pearl dining guide makes its international bow

At its first awards ceremony outside China, in Singapore, chefs talked up the influence of Chinese answer to the Michelin Guide.

Meituan’s Black Pearl restaurant guide held its first awards ceremony overseas, including a gala dinner, in Singapore. Photo: Meituan
Food and Drinks

Recap | Unveiling the best of Cantonese cuisine

Explore the global influence of Cantonese cooking, from the kung fu secrets of wok hei to Michelin-starred fine dining around the world, to the worldwide embracing of XO sauce and shrimp paste.

Cooks working in a dai pai dong in Hong Kong. From such street food stalls to fine-dining Cantonese restaurants, customers savour the effect of wok hei, the “breath of the wok”, in their food. Photo: Llewellyn Cheung
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 1-4

This weekend has it all: the art of Portuguese dining, a journey through Cantonese cuisine, Italian romance and weekend brunch bliss.

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French bistro classics star at new Hong Kong restaurant Jean-Pierre

Chef John Troupis talks about the new member of the Black Sheep Restaurants family, which pays homage to traditional Parisian bistros.

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