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Best Dining Bets

Date: 2007-12-24 10:55 | Author: webmaster | From: 本站原创 |

 

I'm convinced Hong Kong has some of the best restaurants in the world -- which makes it extremely difficult to choose the best of the best. Nevertheless, the following are my personal favorites.

  • Best Spot for a Romantic Dinner:With views of Hong Kong's fabled harbor, live piano music, French cuisine, and one of Hong Kong's best wine lists,Petrus,Island Shangri-La Hotel, Supreme Court Road, Central (tel.852/2820 8590), sets the mood for a special evening à deux. You'll want to linger for some time here, savoring the Mediterranean-influenced food, the castle-like ambience, the view, and each other.

  • Best Spot for a Business Lunch: Nicholini's,in the Conrad Hotel, Pacific Place, Central (tel.852/2521 3838,ext. 8210), serves what some claim is the best Italian food in town, including weekday fixed-price lunches that are dependably good yet won't blow your expense account. Its atmosphere is both highbrow and relaxed, giving it a winning combination for clinching those business deals.

  • Best Spot for a Celebration:An elegant, colonial-age setting, attentive service, dependably good French haute cuisine, an extensive wine list, and a long history makeGaddi'sat The Peninsula hotel, Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (tel.852/2315 3171), a natural for a splurge or special celebration.

  • Best Decor:The avant-gardeFelix,in The Peninsula hotel, Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (tel.852/2315 3188), was designed by Philippe Starck. In addition to providing Hong Kong's most unusual, innovative setting, the restaurant offers stunning views, one of the world's smallest discos, and slightly exhibitionist bathrooms. Wear your trendiest duds -- you, too, will be part of the display.

  • Best View:In a town famous for its views, you might as well go to the very top, where the curved facade ofCafe Deco,Peak Galleria, Victoria Peak (tel.852/2849 5111), offers Hong Kong's best panorama, along with live jazz in the evening and moderately priced -- though occasionally mediocre -- international cuisine. Reserve a harbor-view window seat a couple of weeks in advance; what you're really paying for here is the unparalleled view.

  • Best Wine List:Not only doesSPOON by Alain Ducasse,Hotel InterContinental Hong Kong, Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (tel.852/2721 1211), offer great harbor views, excellent contemporary French cuisine, and impeccable service, but it also boasts a selection of 3,000 bottles of wine, on display at the restaurant's entrance.

  • Best Newcomer:Everyone is talking aboutCaprice, ensconced in the sleek Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, 8 Finance St., Central (tel.852/3196 8888), but only those lucky enough to snag a reservation get to enjoy the innovative French cuisine by master chef Vincent Thiery, the restaurant's elegant mix of contemporary and Art Nouveau decor, and its harbor views. Take your cue, and book early.

  • Best Chinese Hot Spot:Make reservations early forHutong,on the 28th floor of an office building at 1 Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (tel.852/3428 8342). This place is as hip as a Chinese restaurant can be, with fantastic views over Hong Kong, a darkened interior with splashes of red lighting, and innovative northern Chinese cuisine. Dining here will want to make you live forever, if only to see what can possibly top this; this being Hong Kong, something eventually will.

  • Best Dim Sum Experience:The quaint ceiling fans, spittoons, and wooden booths evoke a 1930s ambience atLuk Yu Tea House,24-26 Stanley St., Central (tel.852/2523 5464). First opened in 1933, it's one of Hong Kong's oldest restaurants, famous for its dim sum and filled daily with regular customers. It's hard to find an empty seat here but worth the effort.

  • Best Vegetarian:With its informal atmosphere, wood furnishings, and health-foods store,Life,10 Shelley St. in SoHo (tel.852/2810 9777), is a lifesaver for those in search of organic, vegetarian fare, including salads, quiche, noodle and pasta dishes, daily specials, and power drinks.

  • Best Buffet Spread:Lots of hotels offer buffets, but none can match the sheer extravagance and chic atmosphere ofcafé TOO,Island Shangri-La Hotel, Supreme Court Road, Central (tel.852/2820 8571). Overlooking the greenery of Hong Kong Park and sporting a hip, contemporary look, it features open kitchens and seven "stations" of food presentations spread throughout the restaurant, eliminating the assembly-line atmosphere inherent in most buffet restaurants. The danger? The temptation to try every delectable dish on display.

  • Best Outdoor Dining:Atop Victoria Peak, away from the constant drone of Hong Kong's traffic, is the delightfulPeak Lookout,121 Peak Rd., Victoria Peak (tel.852/2849 1000), which serves international cuisine. From an outdoor terrace surrounded by lush foliage, you can actually hear the birds sing. Some tables provide views of Hong Kong Island's southern coast. Musicians entertain nightly with oldies but goldies.

  • Best Place to Chill Out:If the stress of travel and the noise and crowds of Hong Kong have pushed you to the breaking point, take the free shuttle boat to Aberdeen's Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant, whereTop Deck, at the Jumbo(tel.852/2553 3331) offers great seafood, live jazz Wednesday evenings, and alfresco dining with views of surrounding Aberdeen.

  • Best Afternoon Tea:For that most British institution, no place is more famous than the golden-age and unparalleledPeninsula Hotel Lobby,Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (tel.852/2920 2888), where you can nibble on delicate finger sandwiches and scones, watch the parade of people, and listen to live classical music being played from an upstairs balcony.

  • Best Sunday Brunch:You'll be spoiled forever -- or at least for the rest of the day -- if you begin Sunday morning atThe Verandah,109 Repulse Bay Rd., Repulse Bay (tel.852/2812 2722), complete with a three-piece band. Wonderfully reminiscent of the colonial era, it features Hong Kong's most famous Sunday spread, with main courses like eggs Benedict from a menu, a carving of the day, pasta cooked to order, sushi, dim sum, and more. If ever there were a place that inspired champagne for breakfast, this is it.

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  • Eating Your Way through China:There's no better place in the world to sample regional Chinese cuisine than Hong Kong, where you can eat everything from the ubiquitous Cantonese food to Sichuan, Shanghainese, Hunanese, Beijing, Chiu Chow, and Pekingese dishes.

  • Stuffing Yourself at a Buffet Spread:If you have a big appetite or like variety in your meals, the best Hong Kong bargain is the all-you-can-eat buffet spread. Almost all hotels offer buffet lunches and dinners; other restaurants may feature buffets for lunch. Most offer an assortment of international fare, from Japanese sushi and Chinese dishes to pasta and carveries.

  • Dining with a View:Enjoy Chinese or Western cuisine at one of Hong Kong's many restaurants that offer spectacular views of either Kowloon (with its glowing neon lights) or Hong Kong Island (with its skyscrapers and Victoria Peak). In fact, Hong Kong boasts so many restaurants with views, the dilemma will be in the choosing. The absolute winners? Those atop Victoria Peak.

  • Dining on Dim Sum:Nothing conveys a sense of Chinese life more vividly than a visit to a crowded, lively Cantonese restaurant for breakfast or lunch, when you can feast on spring rolls, steamed dumplings, and other goodies served in bamboo steamers.

  • Taking High Tea at a Posh Hotel:The British rulers may be gone, but their legacy lives on in the afternoon tea. Virtually all upper-class hotels offer afternoon tea, but my favorites are those offered by The Peninsula and Hotel InterContinental. Come for afternoon tea, nibble on finger sandwiches, and gaze away.

  • Relaxing at an Open-Air Seafood Restaurant:Get rid of stress by relaxing over a meal of fresh seafood at one of Hong Kong's rural waterfront seafood restaurants. My favorite place is Lamma island.
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