Belvedere Restaurant & Wine Bar
Secretary’s Day is about more than just saying, “Thanks for that coffee you always make and I never thank you for.” For some, it’s an ideal chance to court sexual harassment charges. So why not do it in the lush, warm decor of this cozy wine bar? It’ll be an almost no-fail affair to get this affair started – the resident pianist and soft lighting are bound to soften even the most dragonish of ladies, especially when they provide the background for a special Secretary’s Day three-course lunch menu this Apr 26. Complete with a complimentary Bulgari gift bag, you’ll look like the thoughtful boss you’re not for a mere $300 plus 10% service charge. 1/F, Intercontinental Hotel, 18 Salisbury Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui, 2731-2880.
Rive Droite Rive Gauche
Got a six-packed, steel-bunned office boy who’s taken with the finer things of life? This French restaurant-bar is the perfect place to wine, dine and seduce him in the most animalistic of ways – while in the most refined of settings. Does he need a bit of chasing? Introduce him to the spectacular list of French wines. Or sit him at the spiraling blue-lit bar, and entice him for a little more than a relaxing cocktail. Before you know it, you’ll be pressed against each other on the earth-toned suede seating and before long, you can even start planning your unfair dismissal pleas as a couple. 2/F, Onfem Tower, 29 Wyndham St., Central, 2525-1681.
Hue
There’s a tiny, dark, green-lit bar down a little street behind Times Square. In this bar people talk quietly without the accompaniment of crappy music and choose from an entire wall of wines and champagnes. With chilled-out tribal beats easing unobtrusively from the speakers, it’s the place to be for people who don’t actually want to be seen. Which works out for you because on your arm is the object of your affection, the unsanctioned target of your illegal employee-to-employee fraternization, your wine-scoffing secret harlot of a secretary. So have a seat, partake of trendy wines, and enjoy being somewhere where no one knows your name. 14 Yiu Wa St. Causeway Bay, 2838-9955.