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Hong Kong people eat out more than most. We regularly ask some of them – food and beverage insiders, entrepreneurs, and others – about the best restaurants for every day and for special occasions, and the restaurants they like to take visitors from out of town.
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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
A charcoal grilled steak at Carna. Photo: Gary Jones

How 3 Hong Kong chefs reimagine classic beef dishes

Clan & Company’s Five Flower Tea. Photo: Handout

Drink in Focus: Five Flower Tea at Clan & Company

Mashed green bean tart and chilled kale juice, representing the green “wood” element of traditional Chinese medicine, at Man Ho Chinese Restaurant in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

How traditional Chinese medicine found its way onto fine-dining and bar menus

Ginza-style bars like Bar De Luxe have given Hongkongers a taste of Japanese cocktail culture. Photo: Handout

How Hong Kong’s Ginza-style bars have evolved in the past 20 years

Drinking and listening are treated as equals at Bar Sepia in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong’s listening bars beat the noise with vinyl vibes

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Dish in focus: Iberico pork three-ways at Whey

Chef Keith Teo gives Singapore’s bak kut teh a polished new form in the Iberico pork three-ways: a tender pork rack, slow-braised belly and house-made sausage.

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9 dog-friendly cafes, bars and restaurants in Hong Kong to visit

If you need a recommendation or two for where to go with man’s best friend for food and drink, we have narrowed down a few options for you.

Dogs are welcome to join their owners in Bonza! by Waffling Beans. Read on for other places to take your furry friend in Hong Kong. Photo: Instagram/pom.chikiwi
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This Hong Kong artisan ice cream maker will recreate a flavour you crave

With its handcrafted premium French-custard-style ice cream, Ernest Fung’s Fun Kee Scoops brand can’t even begin to keep up with requests.

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Authentic French, ‘divine’ duck: a Frenchman’s Hong Kong food picks

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for July 17-19

Book a steakhouse-inspired pop-up in Wan Chai, try a new summer tasting menu in West Kowloon and enjoy a lively Sunday brunch at The Mira.

The blue crab rigatoni at the limited-time Wan Chai pop-up, Marrow. Photo: Handout
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Never mind the time difference, you can watch the football while you eat, drink or shop at a number of places across Hong Kong.

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Dish in focus: Beef empanada at Don Pedro

Built around grass-fed Aberdeen Angus beef and finished with chimichurri, this dish captures the neighbourhood steakhouse’s Buenos Aires spirit in a single bite.

Don Pedro’s beef empanada uses 100 per cent Aberdeen Angus beef, herbs and spices. Photos: Jocelyn Tam
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On the Menu | It’s goodbye to chef Vicky Lau’s Tate Dining Room, but not for long

Hong Kong’s Tate Dining Room, which has closed its Hollywood Road space and will reopen nearby, has felt like a steady presence in the past 14 years.

Tate Dining Room in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. The restaurant helmed by chef Vicky Lau closed in June 2026 and will reopen at a nearby address later in the year. Photo: Tate Dining Room
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Where a Chinese-Japanese architect goes for tapas, noodles, ‘best harbour views’

Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui loves honest food like wonton noodles, fresh seafood and tapas outdoors, and the ambience is just as important to him.

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Why Hong Kong’s Ninetta serves homely Italian fare. Just like how nonna made it

Chef Marco Xodo’s Ninetta brings home-style Italian dining to Hong Kong, blending fine dining quality with casual, family-style portions.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for July 10-12

Rooftop Italian Ponentino opens in Tseung Kwan O, Santa Nata brings pastéis de nata to Lyndhurst, and Black Sheep’s Jean-Pierre marks its anniversary.

Santa Nata has opened in Hong Kong’s Central district, offering traditional Portuguese egg tarts. Photo: Handout
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Swiss-Hong Kong chef Jacques Kagi brings his ‘world of fusion’ to new role

Anthony Wong’s self-professed Swiss doppelganger talks about serving haute fusion food to reflect his diverse past as he leads CulinArt 1862.

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Once nicknamed ‘har gow’, a French-American shares her favourite eats in Hong Kong

Camille Glass, the French-American co-owner of Brut and Crushed Wines, loves noodles, Hainanese chicken, Myanmese food and har gow, of course.

French-American restaurateur Camille Glass moved to Hong Kong in 2012 and earned the nickname har gow after her love for the steamed shrimp dumplings. Photo: Camille Glass
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Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for July 3-5

Three bars celebrate Two Moons’ new Ginger Gin, a new venue brings live jazz to the heart of Central, plus summer cocktails at Avoca.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for July 3-5

Dive into a meat feast at Chef’s Cuts, brunch on the terrace at The Hari Hong Kong’s Zoku, or take it slow this Sunday at The Orient Steakhouse.

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Enjoy a matcha drink in a Sai Ying Pun cafe, relax in a space steeped in Hong Kong nostalgia, grab a coffee on the go in Central and more.

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This sauce is deeply rich, packed with umami – and created in Hong Kong

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Matt Abergel turns a chicken wing into one of the diner’s most playful signatures: a Nagoya-style stuffed wing that is crisp and juicy.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 26-28

An eight-hands Chinese feast at Shanghai Plus, lamb-led snacks and cocktails at Kinsman, and a new Smoke & Barrel barbecue joint in Sai Ying Pun.

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If you like to eat well without breaking the bank, these upscale summer menus serving everything from caviar to Wagyu have you covered.

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