Michelin stars for Hong Kong and Macau restaurants 2021 announced
- Tate Dining Room and L’Envol are new recipients of two Michelin stars in Hong Kong, while eight other restaurants in the city were handed one star
- Chef Vicky Lau of Tate Dining Room is the first woman chef in Asia to receive two Michelin stars
Tate Dining Room, run by Hong Kong’s only woman Michelin-star chef Vicky Lau, and French fine dining restaurant L’Envol in the St Regis hotel were awarded two Michelin stars in the 2021 Michelin Guide Hong Kong & Macau, while eight others were handed one star, including The Chairman and Yardbird.
The results were announced in a virtual ceremony with Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin guides, reading out the names from Paris, two days after stars were awarded in the UK and Ireland.
Hong Kong now has 12 restaurants with two stars and 50 with one star. The number of three-star restaurants remains unchanged at seven.
In Macau, Wing Lei Palace at the Wynn Palace Cotai received one star, the only change in the “Vegas of China”.
One of the Hong Kong restaurants awarded one star for the first time was Ando, helmed by chef and co-owner Agustin Ferrando Balbi.
When asked his reaction, Balbi admitted he was still in shock. “I didn’t know anything before the ceremony and found out just now. When we heard the name ‘Ando’ we went crazy! Our customers who were eating a late lunch or early dinner asked us what was going on,” he said with a laugh, adding the staff gave all the diners a glass of champagne.
“We opened in July and then closed the restaurant two times,” Balbi said of opening in the midst of the pandemic. But he was grateful to his team for working hard together.