Hong Kong's Top Christmas Buffets in 2013
Your waistline’s the limit for these festive spreads. By Leah Oh and Anya Beniac
The more food, the merrier when it comes to festive spreads—and nobody does them better than the city’s hotels. Grab a fork and a Christmas cracker, and
dig right in.
Free for All
The Deal: Delve into some traditional and some less traditional Christmas delights such as herring jelly, seabass, onion tart, crab and shrimp bisque, grilled lamb chops and more, all at the Promenade Restaurant in the Harbour Plaza Metropolis. There will also be a spread of beautifully prepared seafood such as grilled Hokkaido scallops with black truffle butter sauce and oven-baked jumbo Pacific rock oysters with bacon and cheese sauce.
Dates: Through Dec 31.
Price: Lunch: $318-508 per head; Dinner: $358-638 per head.
7/F, Harbour Plaza Metropolis, 7 Metropolis Drive, Hung Hom, 3160-6880.
Fun for the Family
The Deal: At Three On Canton, help yourself into western and Asian delights alike, such as roast goose with all the trimmings, glazed bone-in ham, and braised abalone with soy sauce. Also on offer is a scrumptious collection of chilled seafood from the raw bar. Rumor has it that Santa Claus will stop by to say hi to on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Dates: Through Jan 1.
Price: $268–708 per head, depending on date and time.
3/F, Gateway Hotel, Harbour City, 3-27 Canton Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui, 2113-7828.
Christmas Market
The Deal: Hotel Icon’s The Market will be offering an international lunch buffet including Christmas turkey, honey-glazed ham, Korean bulgogi, samgyeopsal (pork belly), braised snake soup, Spanish-style seafood and lobster paella. For dinner, there’s hamachi and shrimp sashimi, fresh scallops, French duck with liver terrine, Boston lobster and Macanese-style roasted suckling pig.
Dates: Dec 24-25.
Price: Lunch buffet on Christmas Eve: $498 per head; brunch buffet on Christmas Day: $628 per head; dinner buffet on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: $828.
Hotel Icon, 17 Science Museum Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui East, 3400-1000.
Green Christmas
The Deal: 1881 Heritage’s The Parlour is attempting the impossible: a vegetarian
Dates: Dec 24-26.
Price: $628 per head.
1881 Heritage, 2A Canton Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui, 3988-0000.
Fond for Fondue
The Deal: Get Swiss at the Hyatt Regency’s Café, which is offering a Swiss Cheese Fondue dinner from now until Feb 28. Enjoy a country-style, air-dried meat platter, consisting of traditional European treats such as German pickles, gherkins and radishes with smoked salmon rillettes. The set comes with a Zurich-style veal or grilled salmon fillet.
Dates: Through Feb 28.
Price: $428 per head, minimum of two persons.
Hyatt Regency, 18 Chak Cheung St., Sha Tin, 3723-1234.
The Choice is Yours
The Deal: The Place at Langham Place will be serving lunch and dinner buffets on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Queue up at the Beef Wellington and Kintoa ham carving stations, or go straight for the Christmas turkey and freshly seared French foie gras. While you’re at it, pop a bottle of champagne to go alongside it. It’s Christmas, after all.
Dates: Dec 24-25.
Price: Lunch: $378 per head; dinner: $628 per head.
Langham Place, 555 Shanghai St., Mong Kok, 3552-3388.
Brunch Crunch
The Deal: Design hotel, designer meals: Whisk at The Mira will be offering a Christmas Eve and Christmas Day semi-buffet brunch this festive season. Celebrate over a spread of fresh oysters, crabs and caviar; a barbecue corner; and made-to-order mains. There will also be a decadent dessert station to end things on a sweet note.
Dates: Dec 24-25.
Price: $1,699 per head.
The Mira, 118 Nathan Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui, 2368-1111.
Chocolate for Charity
The Deal: The Renaissance hotel will be hosting Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve meals at The Renaissance Café and Lounge. There will be a delightful range of dishes, from buffet spreads and seasonal delicacies to a
Dates: Dec 24-25, Dec 31.
Price: $198 per head.
Mezzanine, Renaissance Harbour View Hotel, 1 Harbour Rd., Wan Chai, 2802-8888.
Seafood And Some
The Deal: From now until the end of the year, Café 8 Degrees at Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees is laying on a a Christmas lunch and dinner buffet. The meal includes freshly shucked oysters, sweet shrimp and mussels, Christmas turkey and grilled lamb chops with mint yogurt.
Dates: Through Dec 31.
Price: Lunch: $298 per head; dinner: $448 per head.
Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees, 199 Kowloon City Rd., To Kwa Wan, 2126-1988.
Mixed Bag
The Deal: The Harbor Grand’s The Promenade presents an international buffet on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The buffet includes turkey, ham, seafood as well as international dishes. Enjoy alongside magic and balloon-twisting performances, and a live band. Unlimited fresh and chilled orange juice, soft drinks, beer and house wines will be served.
Dates: Dec 24-25.
Price: Lunch: $438 per head;
Dinner: $758 per head.
Harbour Grand Kowloon, 20 Tak Fung St., Whampoa Garden, Hung Hom, 2621-3188.
Tropical Temptations
The Deal: It’s too hot and tropical for a full roast dinner, anyway. Put the turkey aside and celebrate this Christmas with authentic Straits cuisine at Café Malacca. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, it’s offering a Malaysian and Singaporean lunch and dinner set. The five-course lunch comes with beef or chicken satay skewers, bak kut teh (pork bone tea) and beef rendang with roti prata. Dinner is eight courses long, and includes Hainanese chicken rice, Penang char koay teow (fried rice noodles) and morning glory fried with shrimp paste and chili.
Dates: Dec 24-25.
Price: Lunch: $220 per head.
Dinner: $320 per head.
2/F, Traders Hotel, 508 Queen Rd. West, Shek Tong Tsui, 2213-6613.
