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Hong Kong chefs

Hong Kong chefs
Get to know Hong Kong’s best chefs, from icons of Michelin-starred fine dining restaurants to talented young chefs in the kitchen.
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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
From celebrating love to leaving the past behind, Hong Kong’s bars have you covered this Valentine’s weekend. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

Ming Pavilion’s Beng Hiang pop-up at Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 27-March 1

Arm Coffee in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, serves a delicious brunch. Photo: Handout

Seaside and sunshine: Sai Kung offers fertile grounds for independent cafes

Crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock in Hong Kong is inspired by the cuisine of Kerala in South India. Photo: Handout

Dish in focus: crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock

Wazup Running Club at The Station in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

The unlikely reinvention of Hong Kong’s cafe scene

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Ming Pavilion’s Beng Hiang pop-up at Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 27-March 1

Indulge in a Hokkien cuisine pop-up dinner at Island Shangri-La, an afternoon tea overlooking Victoria Harbour, and a quiet slice of cake at home.

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Can Cadbury chocolate-fed Wagyu outshine Japan’s finest beef?

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Dish in focus: crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock

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Why do Chinese love water chestnuts? All about the lucky ‘horse’s hoof’

A humble and vastly underrated ingredient, water chestnuts are used in a popular Lunar New Year dessert and also have many health benefits.

The water chestnut, a versatile ingredient known as “horse’s hoof”, is celebrated for its crisp texture and auspicious meaning in Lunar New Year dishes. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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Where a Hong Kong chef loves to eat dim sum, hotpot, pizza and more

Keith Yam of Tuber Umberto Bombana and Cannubi reveals his Hong Kong restaurant hotspots for Italian, Japanese, Chinese and more.

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He saw Guangzhou as a challenge. Now, his restaurant has a Michelin star

Chef Louis Tam’s Chowa earned a Michelin star in Guangzhou, defying the city’s fine dining norms with his rebellious Japanese-French cuisine.

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Word on the StrEAT: 6 F&B power couples on what love looks like after service

Penicillin’s Agung and Laura Prabowo, Dieci’s Paolo Olivieri and Hanna Lee, and more on married life, work and everything in between.

Pandan Man co-founders Brian Kwan (right) and Caroline Yuen are among Hong Kong’s F&B power couples who share space at work and home. Photo: Handout
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Hotel chef’s Hong Kong picks for Italian fine dining, French food and more

Genoa native Fabio Mariella shares his favourite restaurants for top Italian dishes, French chicken, dim sum, Peking duck and Indian.

New Openings

Hong Kong’s hottest openings, from Ébauche to the Hilton’s new Motto hotel

The team behind Mt. Yotei launches high-level izakaya Kyanbasu, while Dieci serves thoughtful Italian cuisine in a space reminiscent of a 1970s trattoria.

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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.

Ga quay Hoi An at Sep in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
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‘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’.

Spanish whole seabass at Aire in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighbourhood, where Eric Chan enjoys casual Spanish food. The chef also shares where he goes in the city for Cantonese comfort food and flavours from his childhood. Photo: Aire
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11 new Hong Kong restaurants and bars to try in February 2026

New openings include the new branch of a Korean pizza chain, a Japanese gelato joint, a borsch specialist and two French restaurants.

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Exclusive | Hong Kong chef wins Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants’ first Champions of Change Award

Sustainability pioneer Peggy Chan talks about her mission and what winning the Champions of Change award means for her and the industry.

Your Perfect Week

The best things to do in Hong Kong, January 25-31

Enjoy new media art courtesy of Austria’s Ars Electronica, a sensory 8-drink menu at Quinary, and an exhibition celebrating time from Van Cleef & Arpels.

Lau Wai, one of the artists featured in the “Pluriversal Futures” exhibition, with their 2024 artwork The Cast of the Invisible. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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Dish in Focus: Le Caviar Impérial at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon

Joël Robuchon’s most recognisable signature layers caviar, crab and lobster jelly into a precise manifesto of product-first simplicity.

L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon’s Le Caviar Impérial in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
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On the Menu | 2016 was a great time for Hong Kong’s dining scene. Which openings survived?

As the 2016 social media trend picks up, Charmaine Mok looks back at notable restaurant openings that year and which are still with us.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 23-25

Head to Tai Kwun this Friday for sushi and sashimi, channel Aussie vibes with a sausage sizzle on Saturday, and swing by Festival Walk’s newest bakery on Sunday.

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He wasn’t allowed to grill for years. That’s how he mastered yakitori

The chef behind Tokyo’s Torishiki brings his gospel of succulent skewers, steady discipline and generous mentorship to Torikaze in Hong Kong.

Chef Yoshiteru Ikegawa uses Kishu binchotan, a revered type of charcoal from Wakayama prefecture. Photo: courtesy Torikaze
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In the heat of competition, this young chef kept a cool head

Now sous chef at Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred Belon, the 30-year-old Indonesian-Canadian once wanted to be an engineer.

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Why Dali in China’s Yunnan province is a great place for food adventurers

Yunnan’s climate and geography are ideal for growing a wide range of produce, and chefs in Dali are taking the cuisine to the next level.

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Sourdough the star at Paul Lafayet co-founder’s new Hong Kong bakery concept

Social Goods sees Christophe Younes’ love of health and baked treats come together, with his mother helping realise his sourdough vision.

Social Goods founder Chris Younes holds a tray of sourdough loaves at the new bakery and cafe in Central, Hong Kong Island, on January 8, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 16-18

Indulge in Michelin-starred Huaiyang cuisine, a French free-flow champagne brunch with theatrical desserts, and a royal Indian banquet.

Ming Pavilion in Hong Kong features a blend of Jiangnan cuisine with Minnan and Fuzhou influences this weekend. Photo: Handout
Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for what to do in Hong Kong, January 11-17

Disney on Ice skates into town, the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon takes over, and Cristal Room hosts a star Beijing chef.

On Our Radar

A Napa legend, a Cantonese feast and a very bold pairing

The Californian vineyard that stunned the wine world 50 years ago is being paired with Cantonese cuisine.

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Dish in Focus: Sicilian artisanal busiate at Tosca di Angelo

Southern Italian soul meets Hong Kong’s skyline atop The Ritz-Carlton, in this coastal classic turned elegant signature.

Sicilian artisanal busiate with Mediterranean red mullet at Tosa di Angelo in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
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How this new Hong Kong restaurant is authentically Italian in every way but one

Osteria Uno chef Bhupendra Singh developed his Italian cooking skills in restaurants run by Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali and Enrico Bartolini.

Osteria Uno head chef Bhupendra Singh presents a pizza at the restaurant in Tai Kok Tsui, Hong Kong. Photo: Edmond So
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11 exciting new Hong Kong restaurants to visit in January 2026

From seafood teppanyaki to pan-Asian and fusion cuisines, as well as two new Italian eateries, here are 11 new restaurants for January 2026.

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Yong Fu’s Ningbo cuisine evolution, from Shanghai tradition to Hong Kong fusion

The original Yong Fu’s sister branch uniquely adapts Ningbo cuisine, blending tradition with innovation to cater to regional tastes.

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