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Hong Kong has one of the world's highest density of restaurants, with more than 15,000 eateries operating around the city, ranging from private kitchens to Michelin-starred dining rooms.
- Anthony Cheung, the chef and owner of Italian restaurant Casa Cucina, reveals where he likes to go to eat in Hong Kong, including a hotspot that closes at 2am
- He names a Vietnamese place that keeps you going back for more, his place for lunch ‘three or four times a week’ and a spot that invokes old Hong Kong glamour
A new No 1 restaurant is crowned at the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024 presentation in Seoul, South Korea. Singapore comes away with the most restaurants ranked; Hong Kong takes two awards.
The Cakery’s Shirley Kwok shares her favourite restaurants to eat at in Hong Kong, including a casual spot for salads, the place to find the best garlic bread, and one with a great community vibe.
Restaurants at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong and The Londoner Macao earn second stars, Cristal Room by Ann-Sophie Pic, Feuille, Mora, Racines and Chef Tam’s Seasons among others earn first Michelin stars.
Every year, the Post’s 100 Top Tables pays tribute to the outstanding individuals and restaurants who help make Hong Kong’s F&B scene one of the very best in the world. Here are this year’s award winners.
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
A Cantonese restaurant recently opened in a Kowloon housing estate, and a modest place specialising in Vietnamese noodles and baguette sandwiches, are among new Bib Gourmand awardees in Hong Kong.
Selling high-quality, low-priced food, Hong Kong’s numerous cooked-food centres are the understated masters of the local culinary scene, but we must keep loving them, or risk losing them.
Dough Beings’ bomboloni are the bomb, and their doughnuts are to die for – but the secretive sisters behind this smash hit bakery are giving nothing away
The location of Hong Kong’s newest fine-casual Italian restaurant Trattoria Felino has seen its fair share of openings in the past few years – but its new tenants are hoping to beat the odds.
For his Hong Kong fine-dining restaurant Plaisance, chef Mauro Colagreco takes pains to source local, seasonal ingredients. He talks about why being a chef is not just about ‘making a good dish’.
Hongkongers love nothing more than munching on basic, hearty soul food at traditional dai pai dongs – but the city’s upmarket restaurants have typically disparaged everyday home-grown favourites
Navigating the world of wine can be confusing for a new collector or casual drinker, so we spoke to experts at the helm of some of Hong Kong and Macau’s best wine cellars to get an insider’s view
Japanese ramen, authentic Malaysian, and classic Italian as well as French- and Chinese-inspired cocktails are just some of the offerings at restaurants and bars opening in Hong Kong in December 2023.
After 16 years in the heart of Hong Kong’s Central district, an icon will close its doors, leaving a big hole to fill. Sevva proprietor Bonnae Gokson tells the Post the city has changed.
Laila Harilela, head of public relations for her family’s hotels group, shares her favourite Hong Kong restaurants, from one serving Cantonese food to a place where ‘everything is perfect’.
Hilda Fung, a noodle ‘addict’, reveals where to find a bowl of tomato soup noodles in Hong Kong that ‘are truly in a league of their own’, and a French bistro to celebrate special moments.
New restaurant Liberty Exchange Singapore mixes Asian dishes and styles with Southern barbecue and smokehouse cooking. Hong Kong-based chefs Yong Soo-do and Chris Tuthill talk about what inspired it.
Andō’s Agustin Balbi, Salisterra’s Cary Docherty, The Dining Room’s Giovanni Galeota, Grand Majestic Sichuan’s Theign Phan and Yuan’s Law Chak Kei all recall the family origins of recipes on their menus today
Food influencer Yuki Maryrose Leung reveals where she goes in Hong Kong to eat spicy Chongqing hotpot, boat noodles and British pies – and a go-to place abroad to find ‘one of life’s most delicious dishes’.
Michael ‘Mick’ Bolam, executive chef of Porterhouse in Central, Hong Kong, appreciates ‘honest, uncomplicated, yet refined flavours’. He names his top places to eat in Hong Kong.
Lau, chef of two-Michelin-star Tate Dining Room, blind tasted and rated 14 Hong Kong mooncake brands, from those sold by five-star hotels to retail chains. Some of the results were a surprise.
Where an Italian chef goes for Chinese, Thai and French food and Hong Kong’s best seafood, and where he takes visitors for ‘wontons, noodles, tendons’.
It’s no easy feat to find truly exquisite contemporary Japanese restaurants in Hong Kong, but The Peninsula’s offering is a strong contender – and discerning diners will appreciate its omakase menus
Sushi restaurants continue to open despite the ban on seafood imports from around Fukushima, Japan, there’s a Moroccan coffee shop and Roman pizza in town, and several new openings in Kowloon.
The head chef at Hong Kong contemporary Cantonese restaurant Ho Lee Fook, ArChan Chan Kit-ying, reveals how reading a collection of old Chinese cookbooks from the 1950s changed the way she cooks.
A modern Cantonese diner, pierogi and pork ribs at a Ukrainian restaurant, Michelin-star char siu – Sharon Chan’s taste in Hong Kong restaurants is eclectic. The auctions director tells us her go-to places.
Japanese-Italian fusion dishes, the best steak and fries, a yakiniku grill place so good it reminds her of Japan – jewellery designer June Lau reveals her favourite Hong Kong restaurants.
A Parisian reveals where she goes in Hong Kong to eat the best French food, from a tiny restaurant offering an ‘unforgettable experience’ to the beachside restaurant serving up seafood platters.
