The Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Hong Kong

8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana (Hong Kong)

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Hong Kong's Italian fine-dining tier has long split between clubby regional cooking, hotel dining rooms and trophy-led tasting formats. 8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana (Hong Kong) sits at the formal end of that spectrum, with Umberto Bombana's classical Italian register, a deep wine program and major guide recognition anchoring its reputation in Central.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Gambero Rosso, La Liste, Les Grandes Tables du Monde

Above & Beyond

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Perched on the 28th floor of a Tsim Sha Tsui tower, Above & Beyond has built a consistent presence among Hong Kong's serious Cantonese dining circuit, earning Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 alongside an Opinionated About Dining ranking among Asia's top 200 restaurants. Under chef Paul Tsui, the kitchen holds to classical Cantonese technique at a $$$ price point that sits a tier below the city's starred Cantonese houses.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining

Amber

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Amber has held three Michelin stars continuously and ranked as high as #20 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, making it a fixed reference point for French Contemporary dining in Hong Kong. Chef Richard Ekkebus frames each structured meal around dairy-free technique, Japanese sourcing, and a sustainability program that now extends from rooftop herb cultivation to fermentation-led flavour building. The wine list runs to 11,000 bottles, with Wine Director Dirk Chen steering a Burgundy-weighted program.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Cathay Members’ Choice Awards, Forbes, La Liste

Ami & Wood Ear

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ami & Wood Ear brings Modern French cooking into Hong Kong’s Central dining circuit, with Nicolas Boutin named as chef and a 2026 Opinionated About Dining Asia Recommended listing giving it an external signal beyond local chatter. The more interesting lens is the wine-led French format: a city fluent in luxury dining, but increasingly alert to cellars, pairings, and how European technique reads in a Hong Kong room.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining

Arcane

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star

Shane Osborn's Michelin-starred Arcane Hong Kong elevates modern European cuisine through seasonal ingredients and sustainable practices in Central's most discreet fine dining sanctuary. The restaurant's lush terrace garden supplies thirty varieties of herbs and vegetables directly to the kitchen, while signature dishes like yuzu lemon posset showcase the refined, ingredient-driven philosophy that earned Australia's most decorated chef his Hong Kong recognition.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables

Associazione Chianti

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Associazione Chianti occupies a narrow shophouse on Ship Street in Wan Chai, operating within Hong Kong's serious Italian wine dining tier. The restaurant earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in April 2025, signalling a wine program with genuine depth. For those planning a visit, Ship Street's compact cluster of independent restaurants makes booking strategy and timing worth thinking through carefully.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Big JJ Seafood Hotpot

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Big JJ Seafood Hotpot belongs to Hong Kong’s seafood hotpot tradition, where the measure of the meal is freshness, broth discipline, and the pace of cooking at the table. With no public awards or chef-led tasting-menu framing, it reads as a casual city seafood address rather than a formal destination restaurant.

Bo Innovation

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2 Michelin stars

Bo Innovation occupies a sharply defined position in Hong Kong's high-end dining scene: a two-Michelin-starred counter where Alvin Leung applies molecular technique to Cantonese and Chinese tradition. Ranked 79 points on La Liste 2026 and awarded a Black Pearl Diamond in 2025, it draws a serious crowd to Central's Pottinger Street for degustation formats that range from a flexible Tasting Menu to the fully immersive Chef's Table experience.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Forbes, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

Caprice

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Three Michelin stars, a La Liste score of 99 points, and a position at #18 in Asia's 50 Best — Caprice operates at the summit tier of French fine dining in Hong Kong. Chef Guillaume Galliot's menu draws on French regional sourcing, from Brittany lobster to Périgord veal, served against floor-to-ceiling views of Victoria Harbour inside the Four Seasons Hotel Central.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Forbes, La Liste, Les Grandes Tables du Monde

Castellana

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Castellana occupies a considered position in Hong Kong's Italian dining scene, operating from Club Lusitano Building in Central with a wine list of 665 selections and consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining, including a Top 378 ranking across Asia in 2024. Chef Romeo Morelli leads the kitchen while Wine Director Alan Tse Chi Heng oversees one of the more serious Italian and French cellars in the city.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining

Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2 Michelin stars

Sitting on the 43rd and 44th floors of Gloucester Tower in Central, Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic brings Michelin-starred French fine dining to Hong Kong with a six- or eight-course tasting menu that weaves French classical technique with Japanese produce and condiment influences. The room itself is a statement: mirrored panels, crystal chandeliers, and sweeping city views frame a wine program that earned recognition from Star Wine List five consecutive years running.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables, Star Wine List, Tatler

DiVino Wine Bar & Restaurant

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

On Wyndham Street in Central, DiVino Wine Bar and Restaurant occupies a well-worn position in Hong Kong's European wine-bar circuit, where the ritual of wine-first, food-second dining has found its most comfortable local expression. The address puts it at the heart of the city's densest concentration of European restaurants, a few blocks from both the fine-dining tier and the mid-market trattoria crowd.

Duddell's

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star

Duddell's occupies the third and fourth floors of a Central address where Cantonese fine dining and a rotating art programme share equal billing. Holding a Michelin star and ranked in the Opinionated About Dining Top 125 in Asia, it draws a loyal clientele who return as much for dishes like the signature crispy skin chicken as for the gallery-calibre environment that surrounds them.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables, Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Embla

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Embla is a Nordic fine dining restaurant on Upper Station Street in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, founded by Stockholm-born chef Jim Löfdahl. Its wine program has claimed the Star Wine List top ranking in Hong Kong for 2024, making it among the more decorated wine-focused fine dining addresses in the city. The setting is compact and precise, with a sensibility that sits apart from Hong Kong's dominant Cantonese and European fine dining tier.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables, Star Wine List

Estro

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star

Estro brings Neapolitan cooking to Central Hong Kong with a precision and narrative depth that has earned it a Michelin star, a Black Pearl Diamond, and a place at #32 on Asia's 50 Best list. Chef Antimo Maria Merone's six- and eight-course menus move through southern Italian ingredients and technique, backed by a wine cellar running to thousands of bottles on Duddell Street's upper floor.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Gambero Rosso, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

Felix

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The harbour view and design-forward interior position it alongside the city's most architecturally considered dining rooms.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's 50 Best

Gaddi's

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Open since 1953, Gaddi's at The Peninsula Hong Kong is the city's defining address for classical French fine dining. Holding one Michelin star and ranked by La Liste and Opinionated About Dining, it pairs a 10,000-bottle cellar with a dining room that houses a 17th-century Coromandel screen. Lunch and dinner run Tuesday through Saturday at the summit of Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui.

Also recognized by Forbes, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables

Giando

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Elegant and refined, with a relaxed atmosphere, one feels at home when dining at Giandomenico Caprioli's place. The Fassona tartare, and the seared scallops with cured pork cheek, white polenta, Italian clams, and black truffle sauce definitely open the stomach. And speaking of truffle, try the potato gnocchi with fava beans, ham, cheese fondue, and black truffle. Among the classics, the revisitation of cacio e pepe with burrata and spring onion has been on the menu here for years. The "Giandoiotto," a vanilla hazelnut chocolate mousse served with hazelnut ice cream is the well-suited way to end the dinner. The great added value of the restaurant is a fabulous winery, masterfully crafted by Emanuele Berselli, one of the greatest wine connoisseurs encountered in our extensive travels abroad. There is good research and a selection process that has few equals in Italy, too. Of great depth, touching vintages dating back to the 1950s; brilliant and courageous choices. Well-suited service.

Also recognized by Gambero Rosso

Godenya

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star

A Michelin-starred sake pairing counter in Central, Godenya operates a single omakase kappo menu matched course by course with sake served at precisely calibrated temperatures. Ranked #25 in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Asia (2025), the tiny venue books months ahead. Chef Goshima Shinya doubles as sake master, and the programme pulls from rare small-production Japanese labels.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining

Grand Hyatt Steakhouse

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Grand Hyatt Steakhouse sits in Hong Kong’s hotel-steakhouse tier, where the point is not novelty but disciplined beef service, a formal room, and a cut-led menu. Its 2026 Opinionated About Dining Casual in Asia Highly Recommended citation gives it external recognition in a city where steak competes with Cantonese banquet rooms, Italian dining rooms, and cross-border grill culture.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables

L'Envol

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2 Michelin stars

A two-Michelin-starred French contemporary address in Wan Chai, L'Envol brings classical French technique into dialogue with the precision expectations of Hong Kong's high-end dining circuit. Holding 94 points on La Liste's 2025 and 2026 rankings alongside a Black Pearl Diamond, it sits firmly in the city's upper bracket for European fine dining. The harbour-district address and sustained award recognition make it a consistent reference point in that conversation.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Forbes, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

Lobster Bar & Grill at Shangri-la

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Lobster Bar & Grill at Shangri-la in Hong Kong serves classic seafood and steakhouse fare with refined, reliable execution. Signature dishes include Poached Lobster, Lobster Bisque and the three-course Sunday Roast with succulent roast beef. Executive Chef Cary Docherty applies a European steakhouse approach to premium seafood and prime cuts, paired with an extensive wine list and live jazz that lifts evenings. The sixth-floor dining room at Island Shangri‑La offers warm, nautical interiors, attentive service and clear booking via WhatsApp, making it a sought-after choice for business lunches, celebratory dinners and relaxed weekend roasts in Admiralty.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables, World's 50 Best, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

LPM Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

LPM Restaurant and Bar occupies a prominent address on Stanley Street in Central, bringing the Riviera-rooted French Mediterranean format to Hong Kong's most competitive dining corridor. Recognised with a White Star on Star Wine List and a 3-Star accreditation from World of Fine Wine, the wine program anchors the experience alongside the kitchen's southern French and Italian coastal repertoire.

Also recognized by SCMP 100 Top Tables, Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Man Wah

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star

Man Wah Hong Kong elevates Cantonese cuisine to artistic heights on the Mandarin Oriental's 25th floor, where Michelin-starred Chef Wong Wing-Keung presents refined traditional dishes against Victoria Harbour's most spectacular panorama in Joyce Wang Studio's ornate azure-toned dining room.

Also recognized by Forbes, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables

Ming Court

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Ming Court occupies the sixth floor of the Cordis hotel in Mong Kok, serving Cantonese cuisine across lunch and dinner at a mid-range price point that sits well below Hong Kong's upper-tier Cantonese rooms. A 2025 Michelin Plate and Black Pearl 1 Diamond recognition place it in a consistent mid-premium bracket, supported by a 1,050-bottle wine inventory with particular depth in France and Italy.

Also recognized by Black Pearl

Ming Court

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ming Court occupies a well-established position in Hong Kong's formal Cantonese dining tier, operating from Wan Chai's Great Eagle Centre with a room format that suits extended, ceremony-conscious meals. The kitchen follows classical Cantonese technique, making it a reference point for the kind of banquet-paced dining that the city's most serious tables have long practised. It sits alongside Forum and Caprice as a venue where the ritual of the meal carries as much weight as the food itself.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables

Noi by Paulo Airaudo

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2 Michelin stars

Michelin-starred chef Paulo Airaudo brings contemporary Italian artistry to Hong Kong's Four Seasons, where his seasonally-driven omakase menu showcases premium Japanese seafood through innovative techniques. The intimate 22-seat restaurant features dual dining spaces with harbor views, creating a polished yet approachable fine dining experience that bridges Italian tradition with Asian precision.

Also recognized by Forbes, La Liste, SCMP 100 Top Tables

Restaurant Petrus

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

For a long-format dinner with serious bottle service in one of the city's landmark hotels, Petrus is the reference point.

Also recognized by Forbes, Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables, Star Wine List

Shang Palace

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star

Shang Palace occupies a storied position in Tsim Sha Tsui's Cantonese dining hierarchy, operating from Level I of 64 Mody Road in one of Hong Kong's most hotel-dense corridors.

Also recognized by SCMP 100 Top Tables

SKYE Roofbar & Brasserie

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

On the 27th floor of the Park Lane hotel in Causeway Bay, SKYE Roofbar & Brasserie pairs Victoria Harbour views with a contemporary French brasserie menu and a wine program carrying a 2-Star accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Living Awards. The combination of a serious beverage list, creative cocktails, and a full kitchen operation places it above the city's standard rooftop category.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World Culinary Awards, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Somm

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

A modern French bistro on the 7th floor of The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Somm pairs a Champagne, Burgundy, and Bordeaux-anchored list of 1,800 selections with French cuisine at lunch and dinner. Wine Director Dirk Chen and Chef Richard Ekkebus anchor the program. Note: Somm is closed through 2025 for renovations and is expected to reopen thereafter.

Also recognized by Forbes, Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables, Star Wine List

Summer Palace

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star

Summer Palace Hong Kong delivers Michelin-starred Cantonese excellence within the Island Shangri-La, where Executive Chef Leung Yu King's three-decade mastery creates well-known dishes like braised Yoshihama abalone and double-boiled soups. This imperial-inspired dining room has remained Hong Kong's most coveted Chinese restaurant since 1991.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

T'ang Court

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

3 Michelin stars

Three Michelin stars held consecutively through 2024 and 2025, a 93-point La Liste score in 2026, and a Black Pearl 2 Diamond rating position T'ang Court among the more formally recognised Cantonese restaurants in Hong Kong. Spread across two floors of The Langham in Tsim Sha Tsui, the kitchen under Chef Tony Su works a menu anchored in classical technique, marquee ingredients, and a dim sum programme served daily.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Forbes, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

The Grand Buffet

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Occupying the 62nd floor of Hopewell Centre in Wan Chai, The Grand Buffet holds a 3-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Lifestyle Awards, placing it among a small tier of Hong Kong venues recognised at that level. The format suits those who want range and altitude in a single sitting, with Queen's Road East below and Victoria Harbour framing the room.

Also recognized by World's Best Wine Lists Awards

The Krug Room

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Among Hong Kong's small pool of chef's table formats, The Krug Room at Mandarin Oriental occupies a category of its own: a communal marble counter where ten to fourteen Modern Asian courses unspool against a backdrop of mirrored Krug-lined shelves and an open kitchen. Recognised by La Liste in both 2025 and 2026, it positions itself as one of Central's most deliberate fine-dining encounters, where champagne is structure, not garnish.

Also recognized by Forbes, La Liste

Tin Lung Heen

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2 Michelin stars

On the 102nd floor of the ICC tower, Tin Lung Heen places Cantonese cooking at the highest point in Hong Kong's skyline. Chef Paul Lau's seafood-forward menu — from steamed crab claw with egg white to dim sum built around Wagyu and black truffle — holds two Michelin stars and consistent placement in the Opinionated About Dining Asia rankings. The view west over Stonecutters Bridge and Lantau is as deliberate as the cooking.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Forbes, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

Tosca di Angelo

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star

On the 102nd floor of the ICC tower inside The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong, Tosca di Angelo serves Michelin-starred Italian cuisine by Sicilian chef Angelo Agliano against one of Kowloon's most expansive skyline views. The room divides sharply between a power-lunch crowd at midday and a more formal dinner atmosphere, with a prix-fixe format that shifts in scope and ambition between the two services.

Also recognized by Forbes, Gambero Rosso, Opinionated About Dining, SCMP 100 Top Tables

Zuicho

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Kappo dining in Hong Kong sits in a narrow tier between izakaya informality and the rigidity of full kaiseki, and Zuicho occupies that space with considerable precision. Chef Yoshinori Kinomoto's daily-changing omakase menus draw on nearly three decades in high-end Japanese kitchens, with ingredients flown directly from Japan. The wine list runs to 1,780 selections, and the restaurant holds an Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in Asia ranking for 2025.

Also recognized by Forbes, Opinionated About Dining, World's Best Wine Lists Awards