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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Dieci’s co-founders in Hong Kong worked with Dix Design + Architecture to bring its interiors to life. Photo: Handout

How Hong Kong’s new restaurants are using thoughtful design to draw crowds

Bourke’s Wattleseed cocktail is part of the Australian bar’s new drinks menu, in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Drink in Focus: Wattleseed cocktail at Bourke’s

The Apple Cooler cocktail from Bar Oasis in Hong Kong features a jalapeño kick. Photo: Handout

How Hong Kong’s best bars and mixologists embraced spicy cocktails

Saicho afternoon tea at Tiffin, and a Chocolatier x Saicho takeaway gift box, at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for April 24-26

Six Hong Kong outlets are celebrating Art Month with special offerings, such as this roasted quail dish at Akira Back. Photo: Handout

5 art-inspired menus to indulge in during Hong Kong’s Art Month

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The Bleu Martini, one of the new cocktails at Jean-Pierre’s Le Bar, in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 23-25

Parisian bistro Jean-Pierre launches new cocktails, Qura at the Regent is doubly taken over, and Osaka’s Craftroom heads to The Aubrey.

Banking & finance

Liquid courage: Hong Kong fund pitches whisky as alternative investment

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 17-19

Food and Drinks

How Hong Kong’s best bars and mixologists embraced spicy cocktails

Spicy cocktails – think jalapeño-infused liquors or drinks spiced with peppercorns – are still niche, but they’re increasingly seen on menus across the city.

The Apple Cooler cocktail from Bar Oasis in Hong Kong features a jalapeño kick. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Alcohol-free drinks are on the rise. Here’s what’s new on menus

From Chinese-style sparkling tea to shrubs and verjus to spirit alternatives, here are some non-alcoholic alternatives now on menus.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 9-11

Pony & Plume hosts a guest mixologist, Honky Tonks unveils new spring cocktails, and Bad Times Records offers wine and vinyl for its Steps party.

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Food and Drinks

How sake breweries near Japan’s Mount Fuji are taking the drink to new heights

From elevated premium spirits to sparkling sake and even a rosé-inspired red sake, two Yamanashi sake makers are elevating the drink.

The wide selection of sakes available from Shichiken, a brewery in Daigahara, Hokuto city, in Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, includes sparkling sake collaborations with French chef Alain Ducasse (pictured on the left and right). Photo: Shichiken
Art

Top Hong Kong bartender swaps cocktails for cameras for first photo exhibition

Jay Khan of Coa and The Savory Project compares mixology and photography as his first photography exhibition opens at Sin Sin Fine Art.

100 Top Tables: Cities of Gastronomy

The Chinese Wine Awards shine a spotlight on flourishing mainland vineyards

Local restaurants and the Chinese Wine Awards mark the growing interest in home-grown vintages.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Easter weekend

Asia’s 50 Best Bars No 22 winner St Regis Bar Jakarta is heading to the city, while cocktail creations made for the warmer weather await.

Bourke’s Wattleseed cocktail. Photo: Handout

Video | Ningxia winemakers aim to be more than ‘Bordeaux of China’

Some Chinese winemakers are focusing on growing a unique grape varietal named cabernet gernischt and have renamed it “cabernet loong”.

Zhang Yan-zhi, founder of Xige Estate
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Food and Drinks

Can wine from ‘Bordeaux of China’ rival French bottles?

Emmanuel Macron ‘loved’ it. Now red wine from Ningxia, in northern China, is finding fans around the world while remaining ‘uniquely Chinese’.

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Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Tropical Spicy Brew at Friday After Class

Friday After Class, one of the latest additions to buzzing Peel Street, is launching a new cocktail menu that features fruity, tropical creations that evoke summer holidays.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 26-28

Easter might not be here yet, but Hong Kong’s bars are keeping things lively with guest shifts at Gokan and The Pottinger’s Dr Fern’s, as Bar Anima reopens.

Bar Anima’s interiors in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Trailblazing Chinese restaurant is showing Swedes what the culture is all about

From baijiu to Sichuan cuisine, Surfers in Stockholm has it all. Now, this Chinese culture hub is gearing up to celebrate 20 years.

Surfers chef Cao Dayu prepares a dish at the Chinese restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. The restaurant has come a long way from its humble roots on a Swedish island to become one of the capital’s most popular Chinese restaurants. Photo: Emil Lif
Food and Drinks

A quick guide to sake, traditional Japanese drink that’s as nuanced as wine

Junmai, honjozo, ginjo, daiginjo – find out how sakes are classed, their best food pairings and more with these useful facts.

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Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong, March 22-28

Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants brings big name chefs to town, edible art comes to Central, and Hong Kong Ballet channels 80s pop.

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Food and Drinks

5 art-inspired menus to indulge in during Hong Kong’s Art Month

The city’s chefs and mixologists add to March’s colours with masterpieces like Banksy-style desserts, a Van Gogh highball and Warhol Wagyu.

Six Hong Kong outlets are celebrating Art Month with special offerings, such as this roasted quail dish at Akira Back. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

How to ruin a classic cocktail and which one people need to stop drinking

Top bartenders from around the world converged in Macau for guest shifts and a revealing discussion on classic cocktails.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 19-21

Problem Child pops up at Dead Poets, Overstory takes over Ozone at The Ritz-Carlton, and Argo at the Four Seasons debuts a locally focused menu.

Food and Drinks

Where a sommelier goes for top French food and cocktails in Hong Kong

Té Bo sommelier Stanko Luksic reveals his favourite Hong Kong restaurants for French food and a place for drinks, plus a gem in Singapore.

Stanko Luksic is the sommelier at Té Bo, a fine-dining restaurant in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay neighbourhood. He reveals his favourite restaurants in Hong Kong for French food, and a bar for cocktails. Photo: Té Bo
Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: DDL Old Fashioned at Terrible Baby

Bar manager Axel Gonzalez reimagines a classic cocktail with his Argentinian roots, Conspiracy Chocolate, Ezra Brooks and Michter’s rye at Eaton HK.

DDL Old Fashioned by Terrible Baby is a tribute to bar manager Axel Gonzalez’s roots. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 12-14

Socio celebrates its 2nd anniversary, Wing Lei at Wynn Palace in Macau embarks on global bar collabs, and Eaton HK’s Terrible Baby focuses on 5 flavour fundamentals.

Food and Drinks

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

Beyond the usual tourist spots lie the city’s hidden culinary gems, in quiet courtyards, basement micro-cinemas and neighbourhood bistros.

Music

Q&A | Troye Sivan on wine, creativity and working with people he loves

The Tsu Lange Yor founder on designing limited edition pieces, why wine taps the same creativity as music, and his pride in his homeland.

Australian singer-songwriter and actor Troye Sivan is Penfolds’ new creative partner. Photo: Handout
Your Perfect Week

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

Enjoy Max Levy’s pizza at 10-seat studio Salisterra, sip Magnolia Lab cocktails at Clan & Co. Lounge, or book into the new Capella at Galaxy Macau.

Max Levy (left) is one of the talents due to take up a residency at Chef’s Room. Photo: courtesy Chef’s Room
Food and Drinks

The Hong Kong vinyl bars offering music lovers ‘a glimpse into the past’

From a Japanese-style jazz cafe to a ‘relaxed’ DJ bar, these venues offer city revellers musical experiences ‘outside the algorithm’.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 6-9

Celebrate International Women’s Day with unDer Lab’s scientific cocktails, Jin Bo Law Skybar’s city-inspired menu, and women bartenders’ star turns.

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