Hong Kong's financial core, where three Michelin star rooms such as Caprice and Sushi Shikon sit a short walk from Mak's Noodle on Wellington Street.
Order Steamed crab with Huadiao and chicken fat on a bed of Chen Cun rice noodles.
The Chairman serves Cantonese cooking on Wellington Street in Central, built on tradition with locally sourced ingredients and seafood from local fishermen.
Order Salt-baked chicken rice with giblets and morels, or the smoked fish in spices if available.
Neighborhood, at 61-63 Hollywood Road, is owner-chef Lai's casual, bustling spot, with a seafood-heavy menu of 20 tapas-style items on rotation.
Order The 8-course tasting menu, a "Chinese x French" concept with creative cocktail-food pairing suggestions.
VEA has 25 counter seats along its open kitchen, where Chef Vicky's tasting menus pair French cuisine with Chinese elements, heritage and memories.
Order Crispy skin roasted 'pipa' squab with 35-year aged tangerine peel, or sautéed lobster in XO sauce.
China Tang opened at The Landmark in Central in 2013, serving Cantonese cooking with Beijing, Shandong and Sichuan flavours under Executive Chef Menex Cheung.
Bo Innovation, founded in 2003, is Chef Alvin Leung Jr.'s 2 Michelin-starred restaurant serving X-treme Chinese cuisine that reimagines Chinese flavours.
Order Butter chicken, or 'Mughal Room Makhani', with laccha paratha, plus the goat seekh kebab.
New Punjab Club on Wyndham Street is a Black Sheep tandoor grillhouse with a meat-centric Punjabi menu that is centred on two smoky tandoor ovens.
Order Double uni sushi, with bafun uni stirred into the vinegared rice and topped with murasaki uni.
Sushi Shikon, on the 7th floor of the Landmark Mandarin Oriental, has held three MICHELIN stars from 2014 to 2026, with chefs at a hinoki counter.
Order Hearty double-boiled soups brimming with ingredients, and dim sum at lunch.
Lung King Heen at the Four Seasons in Central makes sophisticated Cantonese dishes from produce sourced worldwide, in a room with panoramic harbour views.
Mono, opened in 2019 by Chef-owner Ricardo Chaneton, marries Latin American flavours with French techniques across 22 seats, 10 at the kitchen counter.
Order Abalone-wrapped dumpling or chicken roulade with ginseng rice.
Hansik Goo, on 1/F of The Wellington at 198 Wellington Street, serves chef Mingoo Kang's authentic Korean flavours with a creative flair at lunch and dinner.
Order Set menus built on first-rate produce like aka uni, Ping Yuen chicken and blue lobster.
Amber, on 7/F of Mandarin Oriental The Landmark, is Chef Richard Ekkebus's three-Michelin-starred restaurant, known for sustainability and dairy-free cooking.
Order Scampi risotto or trenette with sea urchin, two standouts of the pasta course.
8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana at 18 Chater Road is Chef Umberto Bombana's three Michelin-starred Italian restaurant, named for a favourite Fellini film.
Order The tasting menu designed by Chef Hideaki Sato.
Ta Vie, on 2/F of The Pottinger on Queen's Road Central, offers a tasting menu designed by Chef Hideaki Sato, pairing meats, seafoods and vegetables.
Arbor is a two MICHELIN Star restaurant on 25/F of H Queen's at 80 Queen's Road Central, cooking Nordic-Japanese food, with bookings by WhatsApp or email.
Order The signature caldoso rice, dubbed "Sin Lola", a homage to his grandma.
Andō, on 1F of Somptueux Central at 52 Wellington Street, is chef-founder Agustin Balbi's tasting menu, fusing his ancestral roots with Japanese influences.
Order Roasted Hong Kong yellow chicken with rice cooked in chicken fat and green salad, for sharing.
Louise, set in a two-storey heritage building in PMQ on Aberdeen Street, is a one MICHELIN-starred restaurant serving heart-warming French cuisine.
Order Beef tartare prepared tableside, then Japanese Wagyu teppanyaki in 100g portions.
Beefbar Central on Ice House Street serves premium beef breeds and cuts from the United States, Australia and Japan in a room of rich leather and marble.
Mak's Noodle is a wonton noodle shop at 77 Wellington Street in Central.
Order Beef noodles, the speciality, in a tasty broth or spicy sauce.
Kau Kee on Gough Street has been trading since the 1930s, and its speciality is beef noodles: different cuts of meat in a tasty broth or spicy sauce.
Tsim Chai Kee Noodle is a Cantonese noodle shop at 98 Wellington Street in Central.
Order Signature Baked Barbecue Pork Buns and Shrimp Dumplings (Har Gow).
Tim Ho Wan (Central) serves Cantonese dim sum at MTR Hong Kong Station, from Baked Bun with BBQ Pork to Steamed Fresh Shrimp Dumplings (Ha Jiao).
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Tsui Wah Restaurant is a cafe in Silver Fortune Plaza at 1 Wellington Street in Central.
Cupping Room's Central cafe at Hilltop Plaza, 49 Hollywood Road, serves champion-standard coffee with comforting all-day breakfast and signature pastas.
Urban Coffee Roaster (Hollywood Road) is the roaster's Soho shop at 35 Hollywood Road in Central, one of its branches from Tsim Sha Tsui to Tokyo.
Drink La Paloma de Oaxaca with tequila blanco, mezcal joven, lime, grapefruit soda and worm salt
COA on Shin Hing Street in Central is a Mexican inspired cocktail bar opened in 2017 by Jay Khan, pouring 100% agave tequila and traditional mezcal.
Argo is a cocktail bar in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong at 8 Finance Street in Central.
Drink Earl Grey Caviar Martini
Quinary on Hollywood Road in Central is Antonio Lai's multisensory cocktail bar, open since 2012, with a lab of rotary evaporators behind the long bar.
Drink Sustainable cocktails built on fermentation and local produce
Penicillin on Hollywood Road in Central aims to be Hong Kong's first scrap-less bar, brewing, fermenting, growing and re-using ingredients for its cocktails.
Drink Reimagined cocktails
The Diplomat at 45 Pottinger Street is the first speakeasy by John Nugent, hidden in plain sight on Scavenging Lane and pouring reimagined cocktails.
Drink Tea cocktails such as roasted green hojicha tea with Campari, vermouth, fig leaf and gin
Tell Camellia on Pottinger Street in Central is a tea inspired cocktail bar where artisanal tea meets craft cocktails, with house redistilled sencha gin.
Drink Omakase cocktail experience through Japanese spirits
The Aubrey on the 25th floor of Mandarin Oriental is an eccentric Japanese izakaya with Victoria Harbour views, three bar experiences and a curio lounge.
Captain's Bar is a cocktail bar at 5 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong.
Kung Lee Herbal Tea is a street food stop at 60 Hollywood Road in Central.
Also on this listSing Heung YuenLan Fong Yuen
The Hong Kong Tourism Board's Wine and Dine Festival fills the Central Harbourfront Event Space and Tamar Park for four days, with over 300 booths, country pavilions and a Grand Wine Pavilion.
On this list, shown aboveMak's NoodleSing Heung YuenTim Ho Wan (Central)Tsim Chai Kee NoodleYat LokLan Fong Yuen
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On this list, shown aboveKau Kee RestaurantYat Lok
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