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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Shenzhen, as seen from MO Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen. Photo: Handout

Inside Shenzhen’s evolving culinary scene

The Bamboo is one of Bar Anima’s signature cocktails. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Drink in Focus: Bamboo at Bar Anima

Socio’s collaboration with Avallen yields three drinks, all called the Apple, but with different flavour profiles. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 4-6

The claypot rice dish at Hong Kong’s Isseki Niaji melds Cantonese banqueting traditions with tastes of Osaka. Photo: Handout

Meet the Hong Kong chefs doing Japanese food with a Cantonese twist

Scallop Pie Tee & Crab Bao at Whey. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 5-7

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Sézanne at Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi, Japan. The restaurant has been quietly stripped of its three Michelin stars. Photo: Sezanne
Japan

Where did Tokyo restaurant Sézanne’s 3 Michelin stars go?

After Daniel Calvert’s high-profile exit, Sézanne is being reassessed by Michelin as new chef Stephen Lancaster reshapes the restaurant’s menu.

United States

Inside the crazy New York queues where people wait for hours for Insta-cred

US-China relations

How Chinese drink chains are testing the limits of soft power

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Chinese cuisine

Prawn toast as a Scotch egg? How UK chefs are reinventing a Cantonese classic

A beloved Chinese restaurant dish across Britain, Cantonese prawn toast is being transformed in ways that must be tasted to be believed.

The prawn toast scotch egg at Jikoni is a coming together of Cantonese, British and Southeast Asian influences. Photo: Laura Jalbert
Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s pizza scene heats up with 2 new world-class pizzerias

Two of the world’s best pizza restaurants are opening Hong Kong branches, heating up competition in the city’s already bustling pizza scene.

100 Top Tables

Drink in Focus: Bamboo at Bar Anima

The bar’s signature cocktail, a classic reimagined with dry sherry, vermouth and bitters, also highlights the evolution of Hong Kong mixology.

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Hong Kong

Mouthing Off | Why do we need so many pots and pans in Hong Kong’s tiny kitchens?

From woks and griddles to skillets and sauciers, many people own far too much cookware – some items never even get used.

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How many pots and pans do we really need and why do we refuse to throw away or recycle items we know we will never use again?Photo: Shutterstock
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 4-6

Socio collaborates with Avallen on apple-themed cocktails, Beefbar hosts Macau’s Two Moons, and K11 Musea throws a party to conclude its Sky Bar.

Where to eat in Hong Kong

Where to go for amazing steak and seafood in Hong Kong? Food influencer reveals

Jen Balisi, founder of modern Filipino restaurant Barkada in Hong Kong, gives her top picks for steak, noodles, pasta and more in the city.

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 5-7

Fill your weekend with celebratory anniversary menus at Belon and Whey, plus a citywide burger showdown from Feather & Bone.

Scallop Pie Tee & Crab Bao at Whey. Photo: Handout
China’s private sector

The big scoop: lemon tea chain to revamp Haagen-Dazs’ struggling China business

General Mills is offloading the ice cream brand’s mainland China stores, as foreign businesses revamp models amid heated domestic competition.

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Haagen-Dazs currently operates nearly 200 stores in mainland China. Photo: Handout
Social media

This Edinburgh Chinese takeaway is ‘dying’. Meet the daughter out to save it

Opened in 1997, China Star has weeks to turn things around before it sinks. Can the founder’s Instagrammer daughter Lisa He serve up success?

Hong Kong

5 new cafes and coffee shops to try in Hong Kong in June 2026

From Blue Bottle Coffee’s new branch and Sang Roastery’s airport outpost to a newcomer in Sham Shui Po, here are 5 cafes to stay cool at.

K-pop, Mandopop, other Asian pop

Oreo and BTS launch purple cookies in new K-pop collaboration

Oreo spent two years developing the BTS cookies, which have centres that taste like hotteok, a popular Korean street food pancake.

The new Oreo and BTS collaboration cookies will go on sale on June 1 online and on June 8 in stores in 80 markets around the world. Photo: AP
Hong Kong

Hong Kong-style cha chaan teng cafes thrive globally as Gen-Z embraces nostalgic dining

Cha chaan teng were built on reinvention and resourcefulness. Now, as a new generation claims them for the digital age, PostMag finds everyone hungry for more.

Tai On Coffee and Tea Shop, in Hong Kong's Yau Ma Tei district, has harnessed the power of social media to attract young diners. Photo: Alexander Mak
Penfolds returns to France

An Australian wine icon returns to France

Penfolds’ growing portfolio in France reflects a philosophy of innovation and uncompromising quality, anchored by its long-standing tradition of experimentation and pushing boundaries.

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Mainland China

Why Korean rice wine could be the next big drink in Hong Kong and mainland China

There’s a ‘big gap’ in the market for the ancient tipple, one bar owner says, as more restaurants add Korean rice wines to their menus.

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Hong Kong dining & recommendations

15 new Hong Kong restaurants to try in June 2026, from pizza to ramen

New openings include a Neapolitan pizzeria, a Tokyo ramen chain’s outpost, an Argentinian steakhouse and a modern Chinese dessert bar.

The mortadella and pistachio pizza at Fugazzi Pizzeria Napoletana, a new Neapolitan pizzeria in Kai Tak. Check out this and our other new Hong Kong restaurant recommendations in June 2026. Photo: Fugazzi Pizzeria Napoletana
Taiwan

Discover Tainan’s culinary renaissance at Yudao

Yudao in Tainan: chef Nick Yang’s ‘New Taiwanese’ fine-dining restaurant celebrates local produce, indigenous heritage, Dutch-Japanese history and sunset-soaked island serenity.

Hong Kong

This legendary Chinese snake soup was all but lost. How 2 chefs are reviving it

Once the centrepiece of political and business gatherings, Taishi five-snake soup is making a return in a form more suited to the modern era.

100 Top Tables

Dish in Focus: Pâté en croûte i caille at Terrace Boulud

Terrace Boulud’s Aurélie Altemaire turns a Lyonnais pâté en croûte into a 4-day exercise that rewards time, precision and a chef’s instinct for balance.

Pâté en croûte i caille at Terrace Boulud in Hong Kong. Photos: Jocelyn Tam
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, May 29-31

See Mads Mikkelsen and other stars at Hong Kong Comic Con 2026, indulge in a two-day wellness retreat, watch top cabaret shows and more.

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Hong Kong Comic Con 2026 will take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai from May 29 to 31. Photo: Hong Kong Comic Con 2026
Macau

On the Menu | French dining but not as we know it at Vicky Cheng’s Estuary in Macau

Vicky Cheng blends healing ingredients with French finesse and Asian touches at his new restaurant Estuary at Macau’s Capella hotel.

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 29-31

Escape the heat at new steakhouse Don Pedro, enjoy an Italian brunch at LucAle, or indulge in a leisurely afternoon tea at The Butterfly Room.

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 29-31

Tipples to tease your tongue, from Bar Tincture’s bespoke cocktails to Jean-Pierre’s French bistro flair and Monkey Shoulder’s ode to whisky.

Bar Tincture opened on the 23rd floor of Foco in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong

Where to go for ‘real’ Italian, ‘funky’ Japanese in Hong Kong? This CEO knows

Pak-man Lee of Hong Kong design shop Nuovo shares where he enjoys Japanese bites, real Italian dishes and Thai food on the beach.

Mackerel sushi at Tomokazu Japanese Restaurant in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai neighbourhood, one of Nuovo CEO and creative director Pak-man Lee’s favourite places to eat in Hong Kong. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong

95-year-old dim sum chef launches menu of forgotten items in Hong Kong

Foo Shing looks back on an astonishing life as he opens up about items featured in Tim Ho Wan’s nostalgic dim sum series.

China’s private sector

A new battlefront for KFC and its Chinese rivals: the lighter meal

Big-name fast-food chains are seeking to capitalise on a surge in demand in China for lighter meals.

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