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Best restaurants in Hong Kong
Counters, dining rooms and neighbourhood favourites, chosen for the way they actually eat — not for how loudly they market.
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Cantonese Fine Dining • $$$$
Lung King Heen
The Four Seasons Hong Kong dining room that became the first Chinese restaurant in the world to earn three Michelin stars.
Best for: Special Occasion
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Dim Sum • $
Tim Ho Wan
The Michelin-starred dim sum chain that started as a single Mong Kok shop, still famous for its baked BBQ pork buns.
Best for: Budget Eats
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Cantonese Fine Dining • $$$$
Tin Lung Heen
The Ritz-Carlton's 102nd-floor Cantonese room, with dim sum and roast meats above the clouds over Kowloon.
Best for: Special Occasion
Italian Fine Dining • $$$$
8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana
Chef Umberto Bombana's three-Michelin-starred Central restaurant, celebrated for white truffle season dishes.
Best for: Special Occasion
Molecular Chinese • $$$$
Bo Innovation
Chef Alvin Leung's 'X-treme Chinese' tasting-menu restaurant, reworking Cantonese classics with molecular technique.
Best for: Foodies
Taiwanese-Chinese • $$
Din Tai Fung
The Hong Kong branch of the Taiwanese chain famed worldwide for its precisely pleated xiao long bao.
Best for: Casual Dinner
Modern Cantonese • $$$
Ho Lee Fook
A basement Sheung Wan restaurant with graffiti-lined walls, serving playful modern riffs on Cantonese classics.
Best for: Group Dinner
Beef Brisket Noodles • $
Kau Kee Restaurant
A Central noodle shop famous for beef brisket in curry sauce, with queues that outlast the lunch rush.
Best for: Budget Eats
Dim Sum • $
Lin Heung Tea House
An old-school trolley-service dim sum hall in Sheung Wan running in largely unchanged form since 1928.
Best for: Casual Dinner
Cantonese Fine Dining • $$$$
T'ang Court
The Langham Hong Kong's three-Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant, dressed in Tang-dynasty inspired decor.
Best for: Special Occasion
Cantonese • $$$
The Chairman
A Michelin-starred Sheung Wan restaurant sourcing from its own farm and fishing boats for seasonal Cantonese cooking.
Best for: Date Night
Wonton Noodles • $
Tsim Chai Kee Noodle
A Central wonton noodle shop with a single-minded menu, run alongside its cross-street rival Mak's for decades.
Best for: Budget Eats
Cantonese Fine Dining • $$$$
Yan Toh Heen
The InterContinental Hong Kong's harbourfront Cantonese room, noted for jade-handled chopsticks and seafood classics.
Best for: Special Occasion
Roast Meats • $
Yat Lok Restaurant
A Central roast goose shop with a single Michelin star, serving crisp-skinned goose over rice from a tiny storefront.
Best for: Budget Eats
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