Account

Welcome

Sign in to save places, build lists, and keep your score.

Search

The Best Places in Wan Chai District

  1. Rank 1. Forum

    Cantonese

    The menu runs to several pages on abalone alone, which tells you everything about Forum's priorities. This Causeway Bay Cantonese dining room, which holds three Michelin stars, was built around the mollusc and its late founder's obsession with it, and the kitchen shows no signs of moving on. The braised oxtail and the famous fried rice have their own followings among regulars who've long since stopped looking at the menu for guidance.


  2. Reclaimed marble and locally sourced wood set the tone at this Michelin-starred British tasting menu restaurant tucked into Lee Gardens. The kitchen leans hard on local seasonal produce, with dry-aged Guangdong duck roasted in longan honey earning its place on the sharing-format menu. The sustainability ethos runs all the way through, from the eco-conscious fit-out to a full vegetarian menu available on request. Serious food, dressed down just enough to feel approachable.


  3. A teppanyaki counter where the philosophy is almost aggressively minimal: prime ingredients, hot steel, and very little else. The room is dark and sleek, designed so nothing competes with what's happening in front of you. Wine gets serious attention, with Burgundy and Bordeaux anchoring a list that also nods to sake. It holds a Michelin star, which tracks for a place this focused. Tin Hau is a quieter corner of Hong Kong for it, but regulars seem unbothered by the commute.

    The awards


  4. The awards


  5. Rank 5. 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.


  6. Rank 6. Ankôma

    Japanese

    Eight seats at a counter on the 16th floor, where the chef runs a seasonal French-Japanese tasting menu shaped by stints at Zest by Konishi and Écriture. The terrace outside offers a more relaxed mood, with Wagyu sando and steak frites for those who prefer their French-Japanese fusion without the ceremony. Two rooms, two tempos, one kitchen holding both together without visible effort.


  7. The awards


  8. The awards


  9. The awards


  10. Rank 6. Keung Kee

    Cantonese

    The awards


  11. The awards


  12. The awards


  13. Rank 6. Sister Wah

    Noodle Shop

    The awards


  14. Rank 6. Tai Woo

    Cantonese

    The awards


  15. The baked pork chop rice, buried under tomato sauce and cheese, has followed this neighbourhood eatery from its original San Wan Ho shopfront to its current Tin Hau home, and so have the regulars. Chef Wong's cooking is resolutely home-style: tea-smoked chicken, dried seafood stir-fries, steamed threadfin with yellow wine. Nothing here announces itself, which seems to be the point.

    The awards


  16. Rank 16. Academia

    Huaiyang

    The awards


  17. The awards


  18. Rank 16. Farm House

    Cantonese

    The awards


  19. Rank 16. Hau Tak

    Cantonese

    The awards


  20. Rank 16. Involtini

    Italian

    The awards


  21. Rank 16. La Volta

    Italian

    The awards



  22. Address
    29 Hysan Ave, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong · Hong Kong
    Hours

    Open now, until 6 PM

    Wednesday 8 AM–6 PM

    Online
    Instagram
  23. Rank 16. She Wong Hei

    Cantonese

    The awards


  24. Rank 16. Teppanyaki Mihara Goten

    Teppanyaki Japanese

    The awards


  25. The awards



  26. Address
    Hong Kong, Causeway Bay, Cannon St, 15-27號Hoi To Court
    Hours

    Open now, until 6 PM

    Wednesday 8 AM–6 PM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram

  27. Rank 28. Kamcentre Roast Goose

    Cantonese Barbecue

    Roast goose in a bowling alley is a sentence you don't expect to type, yet here we are. This no-frills Cantonese barbecue spot sits inside a sports club, all bright lights and zero ceremony, and it's run by descendants of the family behind the old Yung Kee institution. The goose arrives lacquered amber with properly gamey meat, and the char siu has the kind of charred, fatty crust that makes everything else on the table feel like a distraction.


  28. Rank 29. Sukiyaki Nakagawa

    Kansai-style Japanese

    A sukiyaki specialist on the third floor of Causeway Bay's Cubus, where the entire logic of the menu rests on which cuts of wagyu the chef has sourced. Matsusaka beef shares billing with Oita and Hokkaido Wagyu, and each arrives with two egg dips, one yolk-rich, one whipped to a meringue cloud. Seasonal additions shift the mood, hairy crab chawanmushi in winter, sea urchin and kanpachi come summer. Kansai-style, so expect bold, meat-forward cooking rather than anything delicate.

    The awards


Eat Score

The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

    How we score →

    Drink Score

    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

      How we score →

      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

        How we score →

        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

          How we score →

          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.