The best new Hong Kong restaurants in August 2022: Thai, Japanese, fine dining – new concepts headed by L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon chefs and more

Dining options continue to expand in Hong Kong, including a seafood-centric Thai restaurant headed by a chef who was at Bangkok’s L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon

An old city fave, Yucca de Lac, is reopening on The Peak; Parisian food can be found at Terroirs by LQV and caviar-and-champagne-themed Huso is in Central

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Threadfin fish at Plaa, one of many new Hong Kong restaurants that have opened or are opening this month. Plaa

Published: 11:15am, 5 Aug 2022

The weather is heating up – and so is Hong Kong’s dining scene, with a slew of new openings to tempt you into the summer sun.

K11 Musea in Tsim Sha Tsui, in Kowloon, is home to new restaurants such as Oomaki and Crust Amalfi, and there have been openings at other locations such as the Hong Kong Palace Museum in West Kowloon and AKI Hong Kong – MGallery in Wan Chai.

Meanwhile, Japanese restaurants specialising in yakiniku (grilled meat), shabu-shabu (Japanese-style hotpot), sukiyaki (lightly simmered dishes) and kushiyaki (Japanese skewers) have opened in Causeway Bay and Sheung Wan on Hong Kong Island.

Read on to see which new openings – listed in no particular order – might pique your interest this August.

1. Plaa

Soft opening from August 5 is a seafood-centric Thai restaurant, launched by ZS Hospitality in collaboration with two mega chefs: Richie Lin of Taipei’s Mume and Ian Kittichai of Bangkok’s Issaya Siamese Club.

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