Sunday, September 6, 2026

The Best Places to Eat in Hong Kong, by the Record

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  1. Rank 96. Dragon Inn

    Cantonese Seafood


  2. Rank 96. Dragons' Den

    Cantonese



  3. Rank 96. Eton

    Cantonese







  4. Rank 96. Ho Ho Chak

    Chiu Chow Cantonese


  5. Rank 96. Ho To Tai

    Noodles


  6. Rank 96. Hong Kong Cuisine

    Contemporary Cantonese

    A dim sum and dinner restaurant tucked upstairs in Happy Valley, where the chef treats Cantonese cooking as a starting point rather than a destination. Classical flavours meet French technique, and somewhere in the middle sits a minced beef pie that nods to a British pasty while quietly ignoring both traditions. The smoked soy sauce chicken draws regulars back, and the tasting menu keeps shifting with enough imagination to make each visit feel genuinely different.




  7. Rank 96. Juno

    Mediterranean



  8. Rank 96. Kau Kee

    Noodles


  9. Rank 96. Keung Kee

    Chinese





  10. Rank 96. Lai's Kitchen

    Cantonese



  11. Rank 96. Leela

    Modern Indian

    The smoked butter chicken, optionally flambéed tableside with Laphroaig, tells you a lot about what Leela is doing. This modern Indian restaurant in Lee Garden Three moves between imperial court cooking and street food, with tandoor-fired dishes and house-made breads anchoring a menu that ranges from Nagpur to Goa. The room skews polished, the sourcing skews seasonal, and the whole project lands somewhere between a serious dinner out and a genuinely fun one.




  12. The oxblood banquettes curve through what was once an actual courtroom, which sets a high bar for atmosphere before the food arrives. This is a proper British dining room inside Tai Kwun's restored Central Magistracy, where the vaulted wood-panelled ceiling does most of the heavy lifting on décor. The menu runs roast beef, dressed crab, and soufflé Arnold Bennett, all delivered with the kind of precision that keeps regulars coming back without needing much convincing.


  13. Rank 96. Mak Man Kee

    Cantonese



  14. Rank 96. Po Kee

    Cantonese


  15. Housed in a colonial-era building that's since been turned into an arts precinct, this Indian restaurant on the second floor of Tai Kwun works through the subcontinent region by region, from Sikkim's mountain cooking down through Delhi and on to Kerala's spice coast. The menu has grown more ambitious since opening, with seafood dishes now leading the charge. A Michelin Selected Restaurant that reads the room without losing the plot.




  16. Rank 96. Roucou

    Japanese French

    The name comes from the annatto plant used to give mimolette its orange rind, which tells you exactly how seriously this eight-seat omakase counter takes cheese. The chef worked the cheese program at Caprice before building a menu around ten to twelve courses where French and Japanese technique take turns with the same ingredient, baked, braised, foamed, or tucked into rice. The bar does casual cheeseboards if commitment feels like a lot.


  17. Rank 96. Samsen (Wan Chai)

    Thai Noodles


  18. Rank 96. Sang Kee

    Cantonese



  19. Rank 96. Saya

    Isan Thai




  20. Rank 96. Ship Kee

    Chinese



  21. Rank 96. Siaw

    Thai


  22. Rank 96. Sing Kee

    Cantonese


  23. Rank 96. Sister Wah

    Noodles


  24. Rank 96. Sol

    French-inspired Korean

    A French-Korean tasting menu restaurant on Lyndhurst Terrace where the kitchen trained across three-Michelin-starred kitchens in Seoul and Singapore, and it shows. The team takes Korean classics and works them through a French technique, so a steamed egg arrives with mushroom sabayon, and a ginseng chicken soup becomes a multi-course arc. Desserts lean into Korean grains in ways that feel considered rather than gimmicky.



  25. Rank 96. Tai Wing Wah

    Cantonese


  26. Rank 96. Tai Woo

    Cantonese



  27. Rank 96. Takeya

    Japanese





  28. Rank 96. Tin Hung

    Roast Meats Cantonese





  29. Rank 96. Udatsu Sushi

    Edomae Sushi

    Jazz plays softly at this 12-seat cypress Edomae sushi counter in Tsim Sha Tsui, where the mood is warmer than the typical hushed reverence the format usually demands. The chef trained for over a decade under a Japanese sushi master and now nudges tradition with Hong Kong instincts, using dual vinegars on the rice to suit each fish. Toyosu fish arrives daily. Sake is on the menu, and so are tequila highballs, which tells you something about the room.



  30. Rank 96. Wang Fu

    Chinese



  31. Rank 96. Yi Jia

    Shanghainese Sichuan



  32. Rank 96. Yue Kee

    Cantonese




  33. Rank 172. Fireside

    Steakhouse

    The only charcoal and wood ovens in Hong Kong anchor the open kitchen here, which means the smell hits you before the menu does. Fireside is a serious steakhouse in Central, with dry-aged cuts ranging from Rubia Gallega to Hanwoo, but the fire applies equally to tuna, prawns, and sourdough with smoked butter. Ranked 18th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, it earns that with method and restraint rather than theatre.






  34. Rank 176. Akira Back

    Contemporary Korean






  35. Rank 176. Carbone

    American Italian





  36. Rank 176. Citrino da Yoshinaga Jinbo

    Contemporary Italian



  37. A specialty coffee shop in Sheung Wan where the roasting happens in-house and the staff will happily talk you through the bean origins before pulling your shot. The space is pared-back and calm, a minor miracle on a busy Hong Kong street, and the kind of room where people actually sit still for a while. Pour-overs and flat whites are the moves here.


  38. Rank 176. E N

    Coffee


  39. Rank 176. Farm House

    Cantonese




  40. Rank 176. Furong

    Hunanese


  41. Rank 176. Hau Tak

    Cantonese


  42. Rank 176. Heimat

    German


  43. Rank 176. Hing Kee

    Boat People Cantonese



  44. Rank 176. Hop Yik Tai

    Cantonese



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