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Hong Kong and Macau’s best restaurants and bars, revealed – SCMP’s 100 Top Tables 2024 fine dining guide serves awards to Umberto Bombana, Manav Tuli, Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic, and more

  • Now in its 12th edition, the South China Morning Post’s 100 Top Tables fine dining guide was launched to the cream of the city’s dining scene at The Peninsula Hong Kong
  • Awards were handed out honouring excellence in F&B, with chefs including Leela’s Manav Tuli, Dolos’ Sean Yuen and 8½’s Umberto Bombana singled out for praise – but who claimed the inaugural Chef’s Choice title?

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Patrizia Yeung acted as emcee at 100 Top Tables 2024, the South China Morning Post’s annual fine dining guide and awards ceremony, which took place at The Peninsula Hong Kong on Monday, March 11. Photo: The Mark Studio and Kong Yat-pang. Photo: Kong Yat-pang
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The South China Morning Post published the newest edition of its 100 Top Tables dining guide yesterday. Now in its 12th edition, the book serves as an annual independent guide to the best fine dining restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and Macau, as judged by the Post’s dedicated F&B writers. This year’s guide features 100 restaurants in Hong Kong, plus 25 venues in Macau, and 10 bars in Hong Kong.

The 2024 edition was unveiled at an awards ceremony at The Peninsula Hong Kong, sponsored by Standard Chartered Priority Private. The event in Tsim Sha Tsui highlighted the achievements of all 135 establishments included, and was attended by hundreds of luminaries from across the Hong Kong and Macau dining scenes.

Chef Umberto Bombana receiving his 100 Top Tables 2024 Legend Award from SCMP’s COO Kevin Huang. The South China Morning Post’s annual fine dining guide and awards ceremony took place at The Peninsula Hong Kong on Monday, March 11. Photo: The Mark Studio and Kong Yat-pang
Chef Umberto Bombana receiving his 100 Top Tables 2024 Legend Award from SCMP’s COO Kevin Huang. The South China Morning Post’s annual fine dining guide and awards ceremony took place at The Peninsula Hong Kong on Monday, March 11. Photo: The Mark Studio and Kong Yat-pang

Kevin Huang, chief operating officer, South China Morning Post, told the audience: “100 Top Tables is the ultimate culinary guide [to Hong Kong and Macau] for all those with an appreciation for fine dining. We are thrilled to continue giving a much-needed voice and platform to talented chefs such as yourselves.”

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This year’s 100 Top Tables represented a “significant evolution” for the brand, according to its editor, Douglas Parkes. For the first time, the individual award winners – such as the person or establishment selected as Best Chef or Best New Restaurant – were not informed of the results in advance.

“It did mean there were some nerves about whether we would get all the award winners to the event, especially since this was an evening event for the first time, when many chefs might be working,” said Parkes. “But we succeeded without giving the game away, and the uncertainty helped generate plenty of excitement on the night.”

As part of this year’s new event format, a string quartet serenaded guests before the awards ceremony. Photo: Kong Yat-pang
As part of this year’s new event format, a string quartet serenaded guests before the awards ceremony. Photo: Kong Yat-pang
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