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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
How are Hong Kong’s bars adapting to changing trends in drinking and socialising in 2026? Photo: Jonathan Wong

Hong Kong’s bar scene was extra volatile last year – what’s in store for 2026?

L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon’s Le Caviar Impérial in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Dish in Focus: Le Caviar Impérial at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon

Daulat ki chaat, a regional variation of makhan malai, at Indian Accent. Chefs are recreating this dish with modern equipment, extending the seasonal street food’s availability throughout the year. Photo: Handout

What is makhan malai, Lucknow’s favourite winter street food?

Aokomi is located in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong. Photo: Aokomi

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 6-8

Peridot’s Durian’s Consent cocktail in the making. Photo: Alexander Mak

Drink in Focus: Durian’s Consent at Peridot

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Luckin Coffee’s store network spans more than 300 cities across mainland China. Photo: Handout
China’s private sector

Luckin’s 30,000th store milestone adds buzz to China’s brewing coffee battle

Xiamen-headquartered chain pushes to integrate supply network worldwide and accelerate growth in markets from Asia to the US.

100 Top Tables

Unsung Eats: 5 best places to eat – and drink – in Singapore

Italy

How to make Winter Olympics special beetroot-filled ravioli from Cortina

Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong, February 8-14

Try two new menus at Michelin-starred Hansik Goo, combine alcohol and tattoos at Cordis Hotel’s Alibi bar, or enjoy retro-futuristic neon art at Tai Kwun.

The Garden of Reflection projection-mapping installation at Tai Kwun during last year’s InnerGlow show. Photo: Elson Li
Consumers

How Chinese consumers’ changing demands are keeping KFC’s owner on its toes

Yum China CEO Joey Wat banks on fast-food firm’s flexible store format and cheaper products to attract more Chinese consumers.

On Our Radar

Fireworks views, fortune tosses – and the city’s most wanted tables

The best restaurants in Hong Kong to see in the Year of the Horse, from Lai Ching Heen to China Tang.

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Susan Jung's recipes

How to use sage and 3 recipes that make the most of its savoury flavour

Taken medicinally for centuries and famously used in stuffing, sausages and sauces, sage adds a distinctive savoury flavour to dishes.

Sage is a Mediterranean herb that imparts a savoury, earthy aroma to dishes from gnocchi to pumpkin flans. Photo: Shutterstock
Singapore

Inside the refreshed Odette, a French restaurant with an Asian soul

Singapore’s fresh look Odette has both Eastern and Western palates in mind as it combines French techniques with Asian ingredients.

Pizza Hut

Pizza shut: iconic chain to close 250 US locations

Yum! Brands targets underperforming restaurants as it conducts a strategic review for Pizza Hut.

Thailand

Video | Tourists mistake Thai funeral for a restaurant

Serving food and drinks at funerals are a way to thank guests for paying their respects.

A video has gone viral on Thai social media showing foreign tourists repeatedly mistaking a funeral for a restaurant.
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Best bars in Hong Kong

Serious about wine? New Hong Kong wine bar focuses on true connoisseurs

Champion sommelier Mason Ng designed his Maison Natsukashii to attract wine fanatics like himself who ‘know what they want’.

Sommelier Mason Ng Yin-song poses for a photo at wine bar Maison Natsukashii in Central. 31JAN26 SCMP / Karma Lo
100 Top Tables

Dish in Focus: Ga quay Hoi An at Sep

Chef Dobee Lam reimagines Hoi An’s free-range chicken salad as a wood-fired roast at Hong Kong’s Sep, blending Vietnamese street soul with live-fire precision.

Chinese culture

On the Menu | How to become a real ‘Chinese baddie’? It’s more than just drinking hot water

TikTokkers claim they’re ‘becoming Chinese’ because they drink hot water, but achieving true ‘Chinese baddie’ status is much harder.

Wine and Spirits

‘Martini craze’ sweeps New York and London as bars shake up classic cocktail

James Bond’s favourite drink is finding fans and driving profits in the US and UK as bartenders serve twists with carrot wine and coriander.

Martinis at the Martini Bar at Hawksmoor St Pancras, in London. Photo: Instagram/hawksmoormartinibar
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 5-7

Kick off this month with painter-themed drinks at Dead Poets, guest shifts that bring Asian-inspired cocktails to The Opposites, and Italian flavours to Avoca.

The Scream from Dead Poets’ Liquid Gallery v4: Dead Painters menu in Hong Kong, inspired by the Edvard Munch artwork of the same name. Photo: Handout
What to do in Hong Kong

‘Excellent’ oysters, ‘deeply satisfying’ congee: where a chef eats in Hong Kong

Eric Chan of Pedder Chinese shares his favourite Hong Kong restaurants for Spanish food, chicken congee and his ‘guilty pleasure’.

Thailand

Thai funeral ‘food court’ blunder: tourists looking for buffet attend wake

The tourists who were served food by a family at the funeral were impressed with the kindness of the people in Thailand.

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In coffee and beer country, one quiet German town runs on tea

In Frisia, northwestern Germany, where tea is more popular than beer, tea tasters are keeping a centuries-old culture alive, sampling 300 varieties a day.

German tea taster Stefan Feldbusch samples a spoonful of tea. The inhabitants of Frisia, in northwestern Germany, drink more tea than beer. Photo: Philipp Schulze/dpa
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 6-8

Sip on single-origin matcha, sink into a black sesame flan afternoon tea at Rosewood, then feast on an Italian-led Sunday roast at Island Shangri-La.

2026 Olympic Winter Games

Milan as it hosts the Winter Olympics: where to eat, shop and be pampered

Savour authentic cuisine at Rovello 18, get the full Italian barbershop treatment at Eredi Zucca, and admire Robert Mapplethorpe’s sensual photographs.

Macau

Craving a midnight bite in Macau? The city’s top chefs are here to help

Macau’s top chefs share their favourite post-shift haunts where the city’s culinary roots run deepest – and where inspiration is born.

Macau’s late-night dining culture sets the city aglow. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
What to do in Hong Kong

10 alternative Valentine’s Day events in Hong Kong for singles looking to mingle

Here are 10 events for singles to enjoy around Valentine’s Day in Hong Kong, from blind dates to parties and fun runs.

The Stage in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, will be hosting an Anti-Valentine’s Singles Party on February 14, one of a number of such events in the city. Photo: Instagram/thestagehk
Hong Kong stock market

Chinese energy drink maker Eastroc’s shares debut flat in Hong Kong

Eastroc, which raised US$1.3 billion in city’s biggest IPO so far this year, draws strong retail demand amid heightened regulatory scrutiny.

Coffee

6 new Hong Kong coffee shops to welcome the Lunar New Year in February 2026

From a Korean-style cafe to a Japanese toast joint and new branches of cult favourites, there’s a lot to excite coffee lovers this month.

Valentine's Day

10 romantic Hong Kong restaurants for the perfect Valentine’s Day dinner

From Michelin-starred dining to vibey Spanish tapas and Italian fare, here are some of the best restaurants to visit this Valentine’s Day.

Dishes from Ask for Alonzo’s Valentine’s Day menu. Hong Kong has a range of romantic dining spots for Valentine’s Day 2026, from Michelin-starred artistry to bistro feasts. Photo: Ask for Alonzo
Hong Kong

2016 trends from Pokemon Go to poke bowls amid viral internet nostalgia

Looking back at 2016 is viral online, but what was hot back then? We look at food, travel, health and pop culture trends from a decade ago.

People play Pokemon Go in Hong Kong on July 25, 2016, the day it was released in the city. The online game was one of the hottest trends in the city 10 years ago. Photo: Nora Tam
Japan

Japanese start-up puts elderly women at heart of local economy

Ukiha no Takara, or Ukiha’s Treasure, in Fukuoka draws on cooking, hospitality and fashion skills accumulated over decades.

So you bought capers. Here’s what to do with them

The bold, tangy magic of capers and caper berries helps elevate dishes such as pasta puttanesca, salsa verde and beurre noisette.

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