Restaurants in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Restaurants
Taste the world at our pick of luxury hotel restaurants or share local street food. Art Nouveau decor is your backdrop to French cuisine with a twist at Caprice. Or get stuck into famous Cantonese dim sum at century-old Lin Heung's communal tables.
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International
Cafe Deco
I would be hard pressed to say which restaurant has the best views of Victoria Harbor and Hong Kong's fabled skyline, but this restaurant on The Peak would certainly be a top contender for its breathtaking panoramas. Open since 1994 and undergoing recent renovations that …$$Victoria Peak
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International/Buffet
café TOO
Buffets are big in Hong Kong. So big, in fact, that it's hard to find a hotel without one. But this one in the Island Shangri-La was ahead of the craze, raising the bar more than a decade ago with 10 different stations spread throughout the room (no more waiting in an…$$Central
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Cantonese/Dim Sum
City Hall Maxim's Palace
Most travelers try to avoid having to go to city hall, but in Hong Kong people in the know head right up the stairs to the second floor (you'll pass Maxim's Restaurant on the way up). This is my favorite Cantonese restaurant in Central for lunch, a massive dining hall with …$Central
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Taiwanese
Din Tai Fung
What started out in 1953 as a small shop in Taipei selling cooking oil has now grown into a global restaurant empire, with branches throughout Asia, Australia, and the United States. Its claim to fame is xiao long bao (steamed dumplings), which you can order filled with …$Causeway Bay
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Cantonese/Dim Sum
Duddell's
Founded by a trio of entrepreneurs who had already been wildly successful in the restaurant and hospitality business (the Press Room Group and JIA Boutique Hotels), this newcomer seems to have just about everything going for it, including a highly desirable location above…$$$Central
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Contemporary European
Felix
The fact that Felix, open since 1994, still wows with its dramatic setting, fantastic views, and ever-changing creative menu is testimony to the vision of designer Philippe Starck and his culinary team. Reservations are a must here. Offering sweeping views of Tsim Sha Tsui …$$$Tsim Sha Tsui
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Cantonese/Dim Sum
Fook Lam Moon
After making a name for themselves catering private parties in customers' homes, the owners opened Fook Lam Moon in 1972, followed by a second location at 53-59 Kimberley in Tsim Sha Tsui (852/2366-0286) just five years later. Today, loyal customes claim Fook Lam Moon is …$$$Wan Chai
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Northern Chinese
Hutong
Dining here is theatrical, first because its dim lighting puts the spotlight squarely on dramatic views of Victoria Harbour, and secondly because its decor manages to be both rustic and hip at the same time. Named after the narrow alleys that used to thread through Beijing's…$$$Tsim Sha Tsui
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Canonese/Dim Sum
Jade Garden
Maxim's Group is an extremely successful local chain that began by opening a Western-style restaurant in 1956. Today it operates more than 760 restaurants, fast-food outlets, cake shops, and catering services in Hong Kong and China. Jade Garden, its first Chinese restaurant, made its…$$Tsim Sha Tsui
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Continental/International
Jimmy's Kitchen
It's hard to imagine that any restaurant could survive more than 8 decades in fast-changing Hong Kong, but Jimmy's Kitchen has thrived since 1928, changing homes several times before landing at its present site in the 1960s. With its dark-wood paneling and old-fashioned…$$Central
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Cantonese/Dim Sum
Jumbo Kingdom
I used to be embarrassed for Jumbo Kingdom, which seemed gaudy and out of date after hip Chinese restaurants changed the Hong Kong dining scene toward the end of the last century. Now, this over-the-top Cantonese restaurant on steroids seems almost quaint, an outrageously …$$Hong Kong Island
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Vegetarian
Life
Vegetarians and vegans are the main customers at this laid-back restaurant with a Bohemian atmosphere (it would be at home on any college campus). For people with dietery restrictions, staff can prepare dishes free of wheat, garlic, onion, yeast, or other ingredients…$Central
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Cantonese/Dim Sum
Lin Heung Tea House
This somewhat scruffy restaurant has been serving dim sum since the 1920s and is one of the few tea houses that still uses trolleys to disperse bamboo baskets of goodies to the never-ending stream of hungry customers. It's up the stairs, past the pastry shop, where there's usually a…$Central
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Cantonese/Dim Sum
Luk Yu Tea House
This is Hong Kong's most famous tea house, open since 1933 and imparting an Art Deco ambience with its wooden booths, ceiling fans, and stained-glass windows. It offers dim sum from a limited English menu that changes weekly for delectables like roasted duck meat pie, as well as a…$Central
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Modern International
MIC Kitchen
MIC stands for "modern international cuisine," a rather limited definition for the singular dishes served here. Founded by Alvin Leung, who introduced forward-thinking cooking techniques at his Bo Innovation restaurant in Wan Chai to create "X-treme Chinese cuisine," MIC …$$$Kwun Tong
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International/Buffet
Nomads
This type of dining, whereby customers fill their plates with raw ingredients and then hand them over to short-order cooks, is popular in many cities, including my own Kansas hometown. But it was a new concept when this Mongolian restaurant opened some years back and has …$Tsim Sha Tsui
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Italian
Posto Pubblico
Founded by New York transplants who grew up eating Italian food, this SoHo restaurant prides itself on using organic, all-natural produce sourced from local farmers wherever possible, as well as meats, poultry, and eggs that are hormone-free. Many dishes on the menu stem from…$$Central
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Light Fare
Pret A Manger
If all you want is a quick meal or takeout but don't want to compromise your health by downing food loaded with preservatives or fat, Pret A Manger is a natural choice. This London import offers simple, freshly made soups, wraps, both hot and cold sandwiches, pastries,…$Central
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Cantonese/Dim Sum
Serenade Chinese Restaurant
How about dim sum shaped like a goldfish? Throw in great views of Victoria Harbour, a fancier setting than most dim sum restaurants, and reasonable prices, and it's easy to see why I consider this one of my favorite Tsim Sha Tsui dim sum restaurants. Although it's famous for…$Tsim Sha Tsui
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Modern French
SPOON by Alain Ducasse
This is one of Hong Kong's most dramatic venues, with a classy and seductive interior (as many as 550 hand-blown Murano glass spoons adorn the ceiling), memorable cuisine, and knock-out views of the harbor from its location right on the water's edge. The French cuisine, created by…$$$ -
Pekingese
Spring Deer Restaurant
Peking duck was a staple of China's imperial court for centuries, but it's hard to imagine a more modest place to eat it than Spring Deer, in business more than 45 years and unabashedly old school. Its simple dining hall is always packed, mostly because of its house…$$Tsim Sha Tsui
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French
The Press Room
This bustling brasserie, located just down the street from Man Mo Temple in Sheung Wan, is a great stop for those shopping the many antique stores along Hollywood Road. Taking its name from the fact that a daily Chinese newspaper, Hua Qiao Daily, was printed on this site back…$$Sheung Wan
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Varied Chinese/International
Tsui Wah
If you haven't eaten at a Tsui Wah, you've missed one of Hong Kong's most iconic dining experiences. Not that this local chain, established in 1967, is anything fancy. Indeed, it's the local equivalent of a diner (called a cha chaan teng, literally a tea food hall), where the…$Central
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Continental
Watermark
Even the directionally challenged should be able to find their way to this snazzy restaurant, located right above Central's Star Ferry pier. What I most like about dining here is that the glass panels encircling the restaurant can be pushed open when the weather is fine, providing…$$Central
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Cantonese
Yung Kee
Yung Kee is the classic Hong Kong success story, growing from a food stall founded in 1942 to this very successful restaurant, opened by Mr. Kam Shui Fai in 1964 to sell his specialty, roast goose. Hanging in the front window, roast goose remains the restaurant's …$$Central
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Cantonese
Zen
Both its name and its appearance leave no doubt that this is no ordinary Cantonese restaurant. Indeed, it became an instant trendsetter when it opened in 1989, eschewing the traditional flashy decor favored by most Chinese restaurants in favor of an austere Zen Buddhist style, with…$$Central District
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Japanese
Zuma
Located in the upscale Landmark shopping center, Zuma is a contemporary twist on the casual Japanese izakaya style of eating and drinking, in which dishes are shared and ordered in no particular order (you can, for example, order a couple dishes to start with and then add a few as…$$$Central District
