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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword. Here’s how Hong Kong’s fine dining is improving its green policies: from Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental and Michelin-starred Mono to Vicky Lau’s Mora, Roganic and the Marriott group. Photo: Ting Lung Heen

How Hong Kong’s fine dining scene is getting greener – at last

The staff of Socio at the the 100 Top Tables Tables 2025 Unveiling Ceremony and Awards. Photo: Jordan Chan

Celebrating 100 Top Tables’ top restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and Macau

Bar Leone co-founder Lorenzo Antinori. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Why neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong are gaining popularity

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A Chinese-led study has found a cardioprotective effect associated with champagne and white wine consumption. Photo: Shutterstock
Wellness

Want to protect against cardiac arrest? Drink champagne and eat more fruit

Study identifies 56 risk factors associated with sudden cardiac arrest, finds 63 per cent of cases might be avoidable with lifestyle changes.

Australia

Australian triple-murder suspect accused of killing with ‘special’ mushroom meal

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 1-5

Cantonese culture

Recap | Unveiling the best of Cantonese cuisine

Explore the global influence of Cantonese cooking, from the kung fu secrets of wok hei to Michelin-starred fine dining around the world, to the worldwide embracing of XO sauce and shrimp paste.

Cooks working in a dai pai dong in Hong Kong. From such street food stalls to fine-dining Cantonese restaurants, customers savour the effect of wok hei, the “breath of the wok”, in their food. Photo: Llewellyn Cheung
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 1-4

This weekend has it all: the art of Portuguese dining, a journey through Cantonese cuisine, Italian romance and weekend brunch bliss.

Where to eat in Hong Kong

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, April 27 to May 3

Take in some yakitori at Maison Tori in Central, satisfy your sweet tooth at Poppins in Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza, and indulge in a California smoothie from Jamba in Tsim Sha Tsui.

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Indonesia

Indonesia’s free meal scheme faces calls for stronger food safety standards

Several food poisoning incidents have led to calls for food suppliers involved in the free meals programme to undergo proper training.

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A free meal provided at a school in Depok, West Java under the Indonesian government’s free nutritious meal programme. Photo: EPA-EFE
Wine and Spirits

Let’s drink to that: the real cost of putting sustainability on the menu

What Hong Kong bars really face when it comes to going green.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Michelin star chef Daniel Boulud’s wife, Katherine Gage Boulud

The brand ambassador for her husband’s The Dinex Group, she was raised in New York, and first opted for a career in politics before giving in to her passion for cooking.

Malaysia

Fancy a Michael Jackson? A ‘tiger bites lion’? Malaysian drinks names, explained

Get the inside scoop on Malaysia’s surprisingly evocative drinks terminology, from a chocolatey dinosaur to a coffee concoction with a kick.

A “Michael Jackson” refers to a drink made from soya milk with cincau. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, April 27-May 3

Cheung Chau Bun Festival returns! Plus, Michelin-starred Cantonese cuisine, New Model Army’s debut gig, and Med-infused cocktails.

Decadent cocktails served at The Wise King that will take you back to the Mediterranean. Photo: The Wise King
Japan

Expecting export boom, sake brewer develops new flavours

With Unesco heritage listing seen as boosting Japanese sake exports, brewers such as Miho Imada look to widen its appeal and food pairings.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend April 25-27

A Japanese ice-cream parlour’s pop-up, a chance to invest in artistic mini pouches and an opportunity to sample Hong Kong heavy metal await.

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All about star anise, how cooks use it in the kitchen, and a recipe idea

Star-shaped and with a strong licorice-y taste, star anise is best used sparingly. Ideal for pork and beef dishes, it flavours desserts too.

Star anise is a spice with a strong licorice-y taste. An ingredient of five-spice powder, it pairs well with meat and can add flavour to desserts. Photo: Shutterstock
Japan

The best souvenir from Korea? It’s rice for some Japanese visitors

Amid a rice shortage in Japan that has seen prices rise 92 per cent in a year, Japanese visitors to Korea are buying the grain to take home.

Japanese visitors to Korea are buying rice to take home as the price of domestically grown rice soars. Photo: Getty Images
What to do in Hong Kong

Where a wine expert from France eats French food in Hong Kong

Romain Loriot reveals his go-to French restaurant, a recent fine-dining find and favourite places for dim sum, dumplings and hotpot.

Mouthing Off | Call that a pie? Hong Kong version no match for Australian ones

‘Pie’ covers everything from the meat-filled sort that are a meal in themselves to cottage pies, pastilla … and Hong Kong’s tart-size kind.

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Hong Kong Fine Dining

French bistro classics star at new Hong Kong restaurant Jean-Pierre

Chef John Troupis talks about the new member of the Black Sheep Restaurants family, which pays homage to traditional Parisian bistros.

Classic French cuisine such as steack au poivre (pepper steak) is on the menu at Jean-Pierre. Photo: Jean-Pierre
IPO

Chinese restaurant chain makes its fifth attempt to list in Hong Kong

The Hangzhou-based budget-dining chain has yet to reveal the amount it plans to raise from the stock offering.

Beauty

How truffles went from ancient culinary delicacy to modern skincare solution

Brands like d’Alba, Fresh and Neogen are incorporating the feisty fungus into their products, with the promise of enhancing skin tone and creating a radiant and youthful complexion.

Social media

Want to create Instagram-worthy food photos at home? Expert tips

Take the best-looking food photos, perfect for Instagram, with these expert tips on selecting textures, props, lighting, colours and more.

Eva Bachmann adds raw ingredients to her food photos to make them look good for social media. Photo: Instagram/madamedessert.de
Hong Kong Fine Dining

How 10 days in China kick-started chef Christiaan Stoop’s career

Executive chef of three-Michelin-star Taian Table Shanghai on a formative experience in the Chinese city and restaurant’s Hong Kong pop-up.

At 16, Christiaan Stoop trained as a chef for 10 days in Shanghai. He returned in 2022 as the executive chef of three-Michelin-star restaurant Taian Table Shanghai, which has a three-day pop-up in Hong Kong. Photo: Taian Table Shanghai
Travel Destinations

TikTokker’s quest to find the best kebabs at Berlin’s subway stations

For more than a year, German TikTok influencer Can F Kennedy has been eating his way through kebab shops in or near Berlin’s subway stops.

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Explore Hong Kong

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 24-26

Go low-ABV at Mostly Harmless, sip craft beer at Flower Years’ 7th anniversary party, and enjoy drinks by Jakarta’s Carrots at The Opposites.

Hong Kong property

Hong Kong retail slump claims another victim as dessert shop deserts

After You Dessert Cafe to close its two shops as retail sector downturn puts further pressure on the weak retail property market.

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People queue up at the After You Dessert Cafe at Airside in Kai Tak on April 23, 2025. Photo: Eugene Lee
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for April 25-27

Indulge in a seven-course fine-dining experience, cool down with a world-famous smoothie, and relax with some beachside dining on Lamma Island this weekend.

Black ink risotto “Lo Scoglio” at Aqua in Hong Kong, part of its Ankh tasting menu. Photo: Handout
E-commerce

JD.com boss delivers food in publicity stunt to challenge Meituan

The move reflects the e-commerce giant’s commitment to expanding its recently launched food delivery business, analysts say.

Healthy eating

From Rome, Hong Kong and Canada, chefs share the art of the artichoke

Don’t be intimidated by its appearance: find out what top chefs at Ama Ristorante and Amber in Hong Kong, and Published on Main in Vancouver, love about artichokes, and their favourite ways to cook them.

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