Sabatini Ristorante Italiano at the Royal Garden in Tsim Sha Tsui is featuring porcini mushrooms and black summer truffles until the end of September. Dishes include lobster carpaccio with porcini, fennel and truffle, beef carpaccio with porcini, celery heart, rocket, parmesan and truffles, risotto with porcini, scampi and truffles, tagliatelle with porcini and truffles (right), and pan-roasted milk-fed veal tenderloin with potato rosti, grilled porcini, spicy bell pepper sauce and truffle. Bookings: 2733 2000

One Bar in Exchange Square in Central has an Italian guest chef, Marco Furlan, who's cooking from Monday to Friday throughout August and September. Furlan's dishes are available as set dinners (HK$298 for three courses, HK$498 for five). The three-course dinner includes a choice for mains of orecchiette with baby calamari and cherry tomatoes with caprino cheese sauce, kurobuta pork chop with tangy dried plum sauce, Swiss chard and roasted potatoes, or oven-roasted French duck with marsala sauce and garden vegetables. The five-course options include starters of tuna tartare with chilled green apple soup and oyster with mustard almond cream or smoked seafood platter, and main courses of slow-cooked veal tenderloin or gratinated Italian monk fish with hazelnut and orange-infused extra virgin olive oil. Bookings: 2522 2246

Lovers of modern sushi should check out the classes being held in the next three months at Nobu InterContinental at the InterContinental Hong Kong in Tsim Sha Tsui. The classes will take place from 10am to 2pm on September 6, October 11 and November 5. The Nobu chefs will demonstrate dishes such as new-style salmon sushi with Nobu-style toppings and maki sushi with Nobu and traditional fillings. Participants will then make their own nigiri sushi, Nobu sushi rolls and hand rolls. The class is HK$888 plus 10 per cent and includes lunch with dishes learned that day served with Nobu Matsuhisa Chardonnay. Bookings: 2313 2323