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What is eating Hong Kong’s restaurant scene?

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Is there any way back for Hong Kong’s crisis-hit restaurant sector?

Illustration: Henry Wong 

Metropol Restaurant in Hong Kong is bowing out after 35 years. Photo: Jelly Tse

Chief Executive John Lee has urged the local dining sector to embrace reform and adapt to the new challenges. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Industry leaders say city’s dining scene needs to transform itself, with business in free fall following decades of bumper demand.


A Hong Kong recipe to beat restaurant crisis – clever concepts, cheaper meals?

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Stefano Rossi (left) and Lorenzo Aussello have set up Italian Bite in Sham Shui Po. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Celebrity chef Alvin Leung says he has gone from “one end of the spectrum to the other”. Photo: Cafe Bau

Head chef Guillaume Sejourne at Le Colvert. Photo: May Tse

Staff member Grace Lu with a ramen dish at Chiikawa Ramen Buta in Langham Place. Photo: May Tse

Analysts urge operators to think outside the box to lure diners in a market that some say is at its most cutthroat in decades.


Hong Kong’s restaurant sector is in crisis, with a wave of closures, shrinking margins and residents lured by cheaper options locally and across the border. In this two-part series, the Post looks at the industry’s troubles and whether it can reinvent itself.
 


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