Dished up
Cinecitta restaurant in Wan Chai will have a dinner on Monday featuring the wines of Tenuta dell'Ornellaia. The four-course meal includes risotto with peas, sheep ricotta and emulsion of sea urchins paired with the Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Le Serre Nuove 2007, braised Wagyu beef cheek with red wine, cinnamon, onion fondant and carrot-ginger mousse with the Ornellaia 2006, and pear and honey jelly served with the Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Grappa. It costs HK$648. Bookings: 2529 0199
Cepage in Wan Chai will have a dinner on September 19 featuring fine Burgundy wines. The wines - Domaine de la Romanee Conti Richebourg 1959, Leflaive Puligny Montrachet les Clavoillon vintages 1999, 1989 and 1979, Maison Leroy Echezeaux 1969, Bouchard Pere et Fils La Romanee 1979, and Mommessin Clos de Tart 1989 - will be served with dishes such as langoustine carpaccio with Cavaillon melon, fennel and oscietra caviar, pan-roasted quail with cep and girolle mushroom risotto, and oven-roasted Greffeuille triple-A lamb rack and loin from Aveyron. The dinner is HK$4,999 plus 10 per cent. Bookings: 2861 3130
Amber at the Landmark Mandarin Oriental in Central is serving a set menu of Brittany blue lobster for lunch and dinner all month. The five-course meal includes lobster and shaved daikon ravioli with ginger and kaffir lime, lobster knuckles with penne, duck gizzards and heirloom tomatoes, and lobster tail roasted in the shell with chanterelles and root vegetables in bordelaise sauce. The meal with wine pairing is HK$1,188 plus 10 per cent. Bookings: 2132 0066
Aspasia at the Luxe Manor in Tsim Sha Tsui has a special menu of crab dishes until the end of the month. Dishes include Canadian blue king crab souffle vegetable brunoise couscous with steamed Japanese king crab, egg yolk powder and cucumber foam, blue crab bisque with zucchini flower tempura and stracciatella di burrata, and spinach ravioli with Italian crab meat, saffron sauce and bisque. Bookings: 3763 8800
Le Creuset (below) is having a sale from September 12-18, with discounts of up to 80 per cent. The sale takes place at 3/F Victoria Room 3, Regal Hong Kong Hotel, 88 Yee Wo St, Causeway Bay. For inquiries, phone 2790 1808
Gaylord restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui is featuring Punjabi dishes until the end of the month. Try Punjabi aloo tikki (deep-fried potato patties with mint and tamarind chutney), tawa fish (fish cooked on a griddle with mustard and coriander), bhatti da murg (chicken leg marinated in spices and cooked in a clay oven) and radha gosht (lamb cooked with ground herbs and spices; left). Bookings: 2376 1001