Central And Western

Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Central And Western from the En Primeur Club guide.

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Accolades in Central And Western

Central And Western in our guide has 26 restaurants, and Central accounts for 10 of them. Joël Robuchon in Central And Western holds a Wine Spectator Grand Award and one of the 2 exceptional wine programs in our guide. Gaia in Central carries the other exceptional program and an extensive wine list. Clarence in Central has a sommelier-led curated program and an extensive wine list. Central brings French, Italian, Thai, Japanese and regional Chinese cooking. Admiralty includes The Upper House, a formal hotel restaurant with Modern Mediterranean cooking, an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Sheung Wan includes Sun Yuen Hing Kee for Cantonese barbecue, Frantzen's Kitchen for New Nordic cooking with Asian influences, and Honjo for modern Japanese dining with a tasting menu, an extensive wine list and a sake program.

Places with the strongest wine programs

These rooms show the clearest wine focus in our guide, from exceptional lists to sommelier-led service and major wine awards.

Joël Robuchon
French contemporary fine dining in Central And Western with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. It serves tasting menus and small plates, and its awards include Michelin 2 Stars (2026), a Wine Spectator Grand Award (2025) and World's Best Wine Lists Awards WBWL 3-Star (2025).
Gaia
Modern Italian trattoria dining in Central with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. The format includes a la carte and small plates, and the room is set up for al fresco dining with a daily antipasto buffet.
HAKU
Japanese Fusion Kappo in Central And Western with a curated wine program and a sake program. It serves a la carte and counter dining at ifc mall, with harbour views and a menu that includes Kagoshima Wagyu skewers. The cooking uses Western dishes with Japanese ingredients and techniques, in a Japanese-Scandinavian design.

Tasting-menu rooms for a structured meal

These picks offer the clearest tasting-menu service in our guide, with chef’s table pacing, set menus and formal multi-course formats.

Joël Robuchon
French contemporary fine dining in Central And Western with tasting menu and small plates service. Its awards include Michelin 2 Stars (2026), a Wine Spectator Grand Award (2025) and World's Best Wine Lists Awards WBWL 3-Star (2025), and the room uses an open kitchen.
HANARE
Japanese Wagyu Kaiseki in Central with a tasting menu format and a curated wine program. The chef’s table has only 8-9 seats, and the meal centres on premium Japanese wagyu rare cuts in a kaiseki-style setting. The table sits inside Man Yee Arcade.
AMMO
Italian-Japanese fusion with contemporary European influence in Admiralty, offering a la carte, set menu and tasting menu service. The room sits inside a converted 19th-century explosives compound at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, with a curated wine list and craft cocktails.

Planning FAQ

Which neighbourhood in Central And Western has the strongest wine scene?

The 2 exceptional wine programs in our guide sit in Central and in Central And Western. Gaia in Central has an exceptional program and an extensive wine list. Joël Robuchon in Central And Western has the other exceptional program, an extensive wine list, a Wine Spectator Grand Award (2025) and a World's Best Wine Lists Awards WBWL 3-Star (2025).

How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in your guide for this city?

Joël Robuchon in Central And Western holds Michelin 2 Stars (2026) for French contemporary fine dining, with counter dining and an open kitchen. Aaharn in Central serves Michelin-starred modern Thai cuisine by chef David Thompson, a la carte, in the Tai Kwun building.

Where should I go for tasting menus?

Joël Robuchon in Central And Western, HANARE in Central, AMMO in Admiralty and Honjo in Sheung Wan all offer tasting menu service. Joël Robuchon also serves small plates in an open kitchen. HANARE is an 8-9 seat chef’s table. AMMO also offers a set menu and a la carte service in a converted 19th-century explosives compound. Honjo also offers omakase and a la carte service.

Which places have the most notable wine awards?

Joël Robuchon is the clearest award holder for wine in our guide, with a Wine Spectator Grand Award and a World's Best Wine Lists Awards WBWL 3-Star from 2025. It also has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list.

By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards

Central And Western

Restaurants

Selected entries from the current guide for Central And Western.

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Central And Western, Hong Kong

Clarence

The room places design thinking at the centre of the experience, making it a reference point among the upper tier of Hong Kong's mid-city dining addresses.

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Dedica

Located on Level 3 of IFC Mall's Lane Crawford in Central, Dedica occupies a considered position within one of Hong Kong's most prominent luxury retail destinations. The address places it squarely in the orbit of Central's high-end dining corridor, making it a natural port of call for occasion meals before or after shopping. Access is through the cosmetic section of Lane Crawford, adding a layer of discovery to the arrival.

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Joël Robuchon

Joël Robuchon at Landmark Atrium brings one of France's most decorated kitchen lineages to the heart of Central. The Hong Kong outpost operates within the global network bearing the late chef's name, where formal French technique meets precise front-of-house choreography. Situated at 15 Queen's Road Central, it occupies territory at the upper end of Hong Kong's fine-dining tier.

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MIAN

MIAN at The Murray serves modern regional Chinese in Central, with a leisurely, conversational pace and signature dishes such as Sichuan-style poached tiger grouper.

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Motorino SoHo

Motorino SoHo sits on Shelley Street in Central, part of the Mid-Levels stretch that has quietly concentrated some of Hong Kong's more considered casual dining. The New York-originated pizza brand brings a wood-fired Neapolitan approach to a neighbourhood better known for Cantonese institutions and high-end European rooms. For visitors working through the Central dining circuit, it offers a lower-pressure entry point without sacrificing kitchen seriousness.

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Ye Shanghai

Ye Shanghai occupies a well-established position within Pacific Place's dining floor, where Shanghai-style cooking meets the polished expectations of Admiralty's professional crowd. The kitchen draws on Shanghainese culinary tradition — braised meats, delicate dim sum, and cold appetisers — within a setting calibrated for business lunches and relaxed evening dining. For Chinese regional cuisine at a central Hong Kong address, it represents a considered, mid-to-upper tier option.

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Aaharn

Aaharn occupies a considered space within Tai Kwun's heritage precinct on Hollywood Road, bringing Thai cuisine to one of Hong Kong's most architecturally significant dining addresses. The setting alone makes it a natural choice for milestone occasions, while the kitchen's focus on Thai culinary tradition gives it a distinct position among Central's international dining options. Reserve ahead, particularly for weekend evenings.

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AMMO

Set within the Asia Society Hong Kong Center in Admiralty, AMMO occupies a converted colonial-era explosives magazine that gives the dining room a structural gravity few venues in the city can match. The kitchen draws on European technique applied to ingredients with clear regional provenance, positioning it firmly within Hong Kong's more considered mid-to-upper dining tier.

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cafe TOO

cafe TOO occupies a address on Supreme Court Road in Central, sitting within one of Hong Kong's most institutionally dense corridors. The format leans toward accessible, all-day dining in a district otherwise defined by formal tasting menus and high-spend hotel restaurants. Details on cuisine, pricing, and booking are best confirmed directly with the venue before visiting.

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Chilli Fagara

On Old Bailey Street in Central, Chilli Fagara has built a following around Sichuan cooking at a time when Hong Kong diners were still learning to distinguish mala heat from the numbing tingle of the eponymous peppercorn. The restaurant sits in the neighbourhood where finance and old-Hong Kong residential life overlap, and its regulars treat it less like a discovery and more like a standing appointment.

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Cuisine Cuisine 國金軒

Cuisine Cuisine at ifc mall sits at the upper tier of Cantonese fine dining in Central, where the room's position above Hong Kong's financial core sets expectations the kitchen works to meet. The wine program here receives the same attention as the dim sum and roast repertoire, making it one of the more considered pairings-focused Chinese restaurants in a city that increasingly demands both.

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Dragon Academy HK

Dragon Academy HK occupies a second-floor position in NanFung Place on Des Voeux Road Central, placing it within one of Hong Kong's most commercially dense dining corridors. The venue sits in a district where the gap between a weekday lunch crowd and a Saturday evening crowd can define a restaurant's entire identity — and where that divide shapes everything from pricing to pacing.

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Frantzen's Kitchen

On a narrow Sheung Wan side street, Frantzen's Kitchen occupies a format that splits sharply from the Central dining corridor: tighter, less ceremonious, and rooted in a Scandinavian-Asian vocabulary that has evolved considerably since the restaurant first opened. The address at 11 Upper Station St places it in a neighbourhood increasingly defined by its distance from the IFC gloss, and that positioning is part of the point.

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Gaia

Set on the ground floor of Grand Millennium Plaza in Sheung Wan, Gaia occupies a well-established address along Queen's Road Central where Mediterranean and Italian-leaning kitchens have long drawn a loyal weekday lunch and dinner crowd. The room positions itself in the mid-to-upper tier of Central and Western's European dining scene, with a format built around sourced ingredients and a menu that shifts with seasonal produce cycles.

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HAKU

HAKU serves Japanese Fusion Kappo at ifc mall in Central, with waterfront and skyline views, a sake program, and Kagoshima Wagyu skewers.

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HANARE

HANARE occupies a third-floor position within Man Yee Arcade on Des Voeux Road Central, placing it in one of Hong Kong's most concentrated corridors for serious dining. The name, Japanese for 'separated' or 'detached,' signals an intent to step away from the street-level pace below. With limited publicly available detail, the venue rewards visitors who arrive with curiosity rather than a checklist.

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Honjo

Honjo occupies a first-floor address on Queen's Road West in Sheung Wan, one of Hong Kong's most characterful stretches of mid-level commercial and residential life. The venue sits within a neighbourhood that has steadily drawn serious independent restaurants away from Central's more theatrical dining corridor. Practical details on booking and format are best confirmed directly with the venue.

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Pici Central

Pici Central occupies a quiet stretch of Aberdeen Street in Hong Kong's Central district, where the neighbourhood shifts from finance corridors to the kind of mid-levels blocks that attract long-running restaurants over flashy newcomers. The format sits within Central's increasingly confident Italian dining tier, where pasta-focused menus have carved a durable niche alongside the area's heavier fine-dining institutions.

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Quiero Más

The name — Spanish for 'I want more' — signals an appetite-forward ethos that distinguishes it from the more austere tasting-menu operations nearby.

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Sabatini IFC

Sabatini IFC serves authentic Italian fine dining at ifc mall, with waterfront and skyline views, a formal room, and a leisurely pace that suits lunch, dinner, or brunch.

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Sheung Hei

Sheung Hei occupies a quiet stretch of North Street in Kennedy Town, one of Hong Kong Island's most resolutely local neighbourhoods. The address places it well outside the Central dining circuit, which is precisely the point: this is a kitchen rooted in the kind of Cantonese cooking that feeds the district rather than performs for tourists. Approach it as you would any serious neighbourhood table — with an open mind and low expectations of theatre.

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Sun Yuen Hing Kee

A long-running Sheung Wan institution on Queen's Road Central, Sun Yuen Hing Kee represents the kind of neighbourhood eating that defines Hong Kong's older commercial districts. The format is rooted in Cantonese tradition, with a pace and ritual shaped by decades of local custom rather than contemporary dining trends.

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The Upper House

The Upper House serves Modern Mediterranean fare in a formal, leisurely hotel setting with panoramic skyline and waterfront views, plus craft cocktails and an extensive wine list.

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