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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Enjoy a classic Christmas turkey at Regent Hong Kong this festive season. Photo: Handout

Where to enjoy Christmas dinner in Hong Kong this festive season

The World’s 50 Best Bars awards ceremony was held at Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong this year. Photo: Dickson Lee

Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s F&B gurus on the highs and lows of 2025

Belon’s brioche beef tartare with caviar is a masterpiece of precision and presentation. Photo: Belon

Dish in Focus: Brioche beef tartare with caviar at Belon

Hot Wine at The Aubrey, Hong Kong, one of the many seasonal drinks on offer in the city this year. Photo: Handout

Your 2025 guide to the best Christmas cocktails in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s hospitality sector faces staffing shortages, but start-up Shift Happens is offering a recruitment solution. Photo: Jelly Tse

Need restaurant staff? Shift Happens is here to help

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An “East-meets-West” festive tablescape by Gloria Chung. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Food and Drinks

A Christmas table built from grapes, radicchio and a single red chilli

Food stylist Gloria Chung presents a masterclass in creating a deliciously quirky tablescape.

Food and Drinks

‘Excellent’ dumplings, tapas, Indian: Hong Kong hotel manager’s food picks

Christmas

Hong Kong’s best Christmas feasts, from traditional to more adventurous fare

Editor's Letter

This week in PostMag: festive tables, Cantopop and Christmas lights

As the holidays arrive, we reflect on food, memory, music – and the Hong Kong rituals that still anchor the season.

A festive tablescape by food stylist Gloria Chung features on the cover of this week’s PostMag print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Food and Drinks

‘Hong Kong taught me balance’: Hutong chef on Sichuan spice and new menu

Sichuanese chef Ren Dingxu of Hutong Dubai talks about exploring spice in his new menu available in Hong Kong and his aim to ‘evoke emotion’.

Food and Drinks

Dish in Focus: Toasted sesame tofu at Mosu Hong Kong

The M+ museum restaurant’s signature ‘tofu’ dish is a study in detail and texture, uniting Korean creativity, Japanese inspiration and playful presentation.

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Where to enjoy Christmas dinner in Hong Kong this festive season

For Christmas dining with flair, the city’s top restaurants Belon and The Magistracy, and hotels like Regent Hong Kong and Island Shangri-la, are laying on some delicious festive feasts.

Enjoy a classic Christmas turkey at Regent Hong Kong this festive season. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

11 of the best places to eat hairy crab in Hong Kong in 2025

From steamed Jiangsu crabs to dumplings, soups and even a pizza featuring the seasonal delicacy, here’s where to get your hairy crab fix.

Food and Drinks

Superb steaks, perfect pasta: where a mixologist eats in Hong Kong

Nischal Gurung shares his favourite restaurants in Hong Kong, from the best steak places to where to experience real Hong Kong food culture.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for November 21-23

Try new menus at a Chiu Chow private kitchen, enjoy kappou cuisine with rooftop views at The Henderson, and start the festive season with an afternoon tea at 181 at Fortnum & Mason.

The eight-dish appetiser at Hana no Kumo in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

A jewel to crown Hong Kong’s newest skyscraper, Peridot really shines

Topping Central’s Zaha Hadid-designed The Henderson building, this new cocktail bar and restaurant offers a vision all of its own.

Peridot is located at Summit 38, on the 38th floor of The Henderson, Hong Kong. Photo: Alexander Mak
Food and Drinks

Dish in Focus: Aged rice duck à l’orange at Épure

At Épure in Hong Kong, head chef Aven Lau reimagines French classic duck à l’orange with Asian sensibilities – here’s how he does it.

Food and Drinks

Where a culinary critic eats dim sum and Michelin-starred food in Hong Kong

Nelson Siu loves Chinese cooking, from street food to dim sum and Michelin-starred elegant dishes. He is also a fan of high-end French food.

Style Edit

Style Edit: Meet Baken, the world’s first all-bacon snack line

Philippine brand Baken aims to make bacon a pantry staple in Hong Kong and beyond – beginning with a dinner at Michelin-starred Louise.

All-bacon snack brand Baken’s pop-up at the HKTDC Food Expo Pro in August. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

World’s best young chef Ardy Ferguson on plating up ‘the spirit of Asia’

The San Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition 2024-25 winner never planned to cook. Now his dishes tell stories of his past – and future.

Ardy Ferguson speaks at the San Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition 2024-25 final in Milan. Photo: S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy
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Where a Hong Kong food entrepreneur goes for sushi, suckling pig, char siu

Jeffrey Mui, who has opened Hong Kong restaurants such as Banh Mi Nem and La Volta pasta bar, shares his love of Chinese cuisine.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for November 7-9

Enjoy a guest meal from Dutch duo Blend Brothers, a spicy taste tour at Hutong, or an Indian kitchen takeover by Jhol Bangkok.

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15 new restaurants to visit in Hong Kong during November

Enjoy the cool weather in Hong Kong with new eateries serving everything from modern Chinese to fermented, plant-based and izakaya food.

Chef Vicky Lau of Tate Dining Room is serving a modern interpretation of Yunnan food at Jija in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Photo: Jija
Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival 2025 draws over 160,000, daily visits up 30%

Hong Kong Tourism Board also says spending sentiment improved among visitors at this year’s four-day event.

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How to best enjoy white truffles and why they can cause ‘dog-nappings’

This lucrative fungus, which is only in season for a few months a year, shines when shaved over simple dishes.

Hong Kong tourism

Hong Kong’s annual Wine and Dine Festival returns with focus on Chinese vintages

Four-day festival boasts around 300 booths, with organisers expecting to draw 150,000 visitors throughout event.

The Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival’s opening hours have been extended to midnight. Photo: Nora Tam
Hong Kong tourism

Explainer | Hong Kong’s Wine and Dine Festival: how to taste the best of all worlds

Event runs from Thursday to Sunday and features Michelin-starred chefs, larger gourmet avenue, sunset tasting party and exclusive promotions.

The 25th edition of the festival runs from Thursday to Sunday. Photo: Sun Yeung
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for October 24-26

Usher in the weekend with a four-hands dinner at Island Shangri-La’s Petrus, enjoy a seasonal crab feast on Saturday, and end on a high note with a Diwali celebration.

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Dish in Focus: Bone marrow macaroni at Twist Pasta Bar

Ben Sears reimagines classic comfort food with Hong Kong playfulness, inviting diners to savour nostalgic dishes in a lively mid-century-inspired setting.

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Dim sum, Thai, hotpot: Mauritian chef’s favourite Hong Kong restaurants

The Mira’s Smita Grosse shares her top Hong Kong dining spots, from where she goes for a taste of home to a place for dim sum with a view.

Hotpot at Haidilao, one of Mauritian pastry chef Smita Grosse’s favourite restaurants in Hong Kong.
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for October 17-19

Enjoy Nobu’s omakase with the man himself, feast at LPM’s anniversary brunch event, and lean into autumn with a porcini set menu.

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Food and Drinks

What’s this Korean-American celebrity chef’s new Hong Kong restaurant like?

Picky eater turned top chef Akira Back shares how his restaurant in The Henderson is about telling his family story in a stress-free setting.

New Openings

Hong Kong’s new openings, from Aera restaurant to L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon

Experience Aera’s tasting menus at its new home, visit a refreshed L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, and explore To Summer’s first Hong Kong store.

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