A Basic Coffee Production
An alley café in Wan Chai, where the eggs come out pink.
ALMA & Tapas and Fresh Pasta
Spanish meets Italian on Peel Street — tapas and handmade pasta.
Amaze Dumplings
Hand-folded dumplings on Bonham Road, with adventurous fillings.
Amo·Ago
A sourdough bakery on Shelley Street, from the Fiata Pizza team.
ARTISTA PERFETTO
Barista-run specialty coffee, their third shop.
Babette
A French bistro on Des Voeux Road, easy but not casual.
BÀRBAR
A Spanish tapas bar on Ship Street with the deepest by-the-glass list in town.
BASAO
A white-toned teahouse on Wan Chai's Moon Street, the flagship of local tea brand BASAO.
汴京茶寮
A Japanese teahouse on Wyndham Street; the owner teaches Edo Senke tea ceremony.
Book & Pillow
A bookish Kai Tak café, half of it antique furniture.
Butter
A retro American cake shop that began as a 2020 pop-up.
Caffè Parabolica
A European bakery in Repulse Bay, with the sea in front of it.
Casa Iberica - The Ham Shop
A Spanish ham counter on Tai Ping Shan Street, sliced to order.
CATCH. Quarry Bay
Australian seafood on Hoi Wan Street, eight in the morning to ten at night.
CENSU
Japanese cooking on Gough Street; the name means folding fan.
Chas_bythetime
A three-storey tea space on Queen’s Road Central.
Chocolux
A chocolate shop in an old furrier's, going since 2004.
Chôm Chôm
Hanoi bia hoi and street food in SoHo.
commaa ，coffee . art . architecture
A cafe inside LAAB Architects' Sheung Wan studio, where coffee meets art and architecture.
Crew
A Queen's Road East coffee shop with park benches outside.
CUÍT
Sisters, sourdough, and the morning’s catch.
CUÍT Épicerie
CUÍT's Central outpost — sandwiches and groceries.
Detour Sheung Wan
A Queen's Road café that turns into a wine bar at night.
E N
A café on the Shin Hing Street steps, voted best of 2025 by readers.
Edenly Gelato
Small-batch gelato made from scratch on Sai Ying Pun's Eastern Street.
Emmer Pizzeria & Café
Pizza at Pacific Place, built on an ancient grain.
FALCO
An all-day restaurant-bar on Hollywood Road, coffee by day and cocktails by night.
Fiata Pizza
Neapolitan pizza on Staunton Street, third-best in Asia-Pacific.
FINEPRINT
Sourdough and specialty coffee in Sheung Wan, open from six.
FRANCIS
A Middle Eastern room on St Francis Street, by way of Tel Aviv.
Fugazzi Pizzeria Napoletana
Neapolitan pizza in Kai Tak, the oven built in Naples.
Goose’ Chocolate
A Tai Ping Shan Street chocolate shop where you mostly drink it.
Gwee Coffee & More
On the Tai Ping Shan Street corner; the meringue coffee is the thing.
Half by Involtini
Italian in Tuen Mun, the pasta rolled fresh each day.
Halfway Coffee
Coffee in vintage porcelain, on Upper Lascar Row.
hara kako (Sheung Wan)
A Japanese café on Queen's Road West; the cakes run out daily.
Heartwarming
A black sesame specialist on Electric Road in Tin Hau, stone-ground on site.
Hemma
Basque cheesecake on Second Street; expect to queue at weekends.
Ho Lan Jeng
Neon, ceiling fans, and local craft beer.
Honjo
Modern Japanese, one floor up on Queen's Road West.
Kaffee Jen
A small café in Tuen Mun's factory quarter, named for its two owners.
Kam Cheung Spare Ribs Noodle
Shanghainese pork rib noodles on Des Voeux Road West, forty-odd years in.
Knead Sheung Wan
A Jervois Street sandwich counter you build yourself.
Knockbox Coffee Company
Hak Po Street's veteran roaster, open since 2011.
KOKO Coffee Roasters
A roastery inside The Mills.
Kuma
Burgers, crisp fried sides and gelato at The Repulse Bay.
La Cabane Wine Bistro
A natural-wine bistro on Hollywood Road, going since 2010.
Lau Sum Kee Noodle (Fuk Wing Street)
Bamboo-pressed noodles on Fuk Wing Street, going since 1956.
Little Cove Espresso
Melbourne-style coffee on the Kennedy Town praya.
Little Napoli Pizzeria
Neapolitan pizza on Tai Wong Street East, a Bib Gourmand.
Lorway Coffee & Bakery
A Tuen Mun café with ceilings two storeys up.
MâmAmis
Vietnamese cooking on Hillier Street, by French method.
Marrow Restaurant
A live-fire pop-up on Lee Tung Avenue, cooking the odd cuts.
Maru Korean Restaurant Pub
Korean on Staunton Street; the name means the room a family eats in.
Matchali
A Moon Street matcha bar, the tea straight from Uji.
Matchali (Central)
Matchali's Central home for Uji matcha and an expanded all-day menu.
Menu Italiano HK
Half restaurant, half Italian grocer, in Sham Shui Po.
Messina
Australian gelato on Pottinger Street — salted egg yolk and milk tea among them.
Midnight Bread Club
Tai Hang sourdough; the bagel flavour rotates monthly.
Moonary Coffee
A Korean-style café on Aberdeen Street, and laptops are not the point.
MOYO
A Korean-Italian bistro opposite PMQ.
N.O.T. Specialty Coffee
An upstairs coffee bar on Connaught Road, one of N.O.T.'s three.
n.o.t. Specialty Coffee (Hysan Place)
Nine floors up in Hysan Place, with one of the best views on the island.
Nonna Hong Kong
Mediterranean on the Gold Coast, with the sunset off the terrace.
OMA Specialty Coffee
A Wun Sha Street café that pours two cups so you can compare.
OneThird Coffee Roasters
A stand-up espresso bar on Graham Street, out of Yuen Long.
Overlap Coffee
A white room on Fung Cheung Road in Yuen Long; ask for the Lumos.
passione.panini
Panini on their own focaccia, mostly takeaway.
Pause It (Mong Kok)
A Nelson Street café that colours its latte art with food dye.
Pica Pica
Spanish tapas by Western Market, made for sharing.
Plantation Tea Bar
A Po Tuck Street tea bar — a ten-seat stone counter, and tea cocktails at night.
Porch Coffee Bar
Primo Posto
Northern Italian at the top of the Shin Hing Street steps, open since 2025.
Proof.
Sourdough on a Happy Valley dead end, baking since 2016.
Ramie
Cocoa meets coffee; fewer than a dozen seats.
Relive Patisserie
Modern French cakes on Upper Lascar Row, and somewhere quiet to eat them.
Rizzy Cafe & Bar
A Lan Kwai Fong corner that runs coffee by day and cocktails by night.
Rootdown
A plant-filled café and bar in Sai Ying Pun's Two Artlane, wrapped in pivoting timber panels.
Sang Roastery
The To Kwa Wan roastery behind the Staunton Street shop.
Sang Roastery (Central)
A micro roastery on Staunton Street.
十常八九
A Japanese-style café on Shantung Street, named for the eight-in-ten.
Sbakery by Mama Soo
New York cheesecake on Tai Ping Shan Street, out of an online shop.
Serene Coffee & Wine
A Sheung Wan corner on New Street where coffee by day gives way to wine by night.
SERVO
Australian all-day, open from 7:30am.
SIÜ SIÜ
An izakaya from the CENSU team; a very long sake list.
Sleep Well Eat More
A Queen's Road West dessert shop; the name is the wish that you sleep well.
Sleep Well Eat More Gelato
The gelato-only sibling in Sheung Wan; the flavours change weekly.
Snack Baby Gelato & Drinks (Hollywood Road)
Handmade gelato on Hollywood Road, all of it dairy-free.
Social Goods Modern Bakery
A Wellington Street bakery built around an egg-shaped tart.
SonneCAD
Coffee, and only coffee, inside a century-old Tai Hang house.
Soycafe
A small Sai Ying Pun shop making fresh tofu pudding and soy milk.
Sun Hui Cafe
All-day breakfast in Tuen Mun, plants outside.
SWALLOW DIVE
Five years as an upstairs room before it came down to street level.
Sweet Daisy
Mochi on Queen's Road East, from the old Sweet Dynasty proprietor.
TATE Dining Room
A two-star dining room in Sheung Wan that tells a story per course.
The Spoon
A Gough Street pasta bar with Malaysian roots.
The Spoon Focaccia
Focaccia only — the honey butter dome is the one.
Twist Pasta Bar
A pasta bar on Bridges Street, seasoned Hong Kong.
Venner
A Nordic neighbourhood room — pastries by day, wine by night.
Village Bakery
A Mui Wo bakery a husband and wife left their city jobs to open.
WARM BREAD
A Sai Kung side street, and a crème brûlée bagel.
Ye Shanghai (Tsim Sha Tsui)
Jiangnan cooking in Tsim Sha Tsui, one star, facing the harbour.
Yukkuri
A Japanese antique café; the name means "slowly".
ZOZZONA
A pasta bar on Hillwood Road, Italian read through Japanese eyes.
ztoryhome
A multi-cuisine cafe on Sai Ying Pun's Queen's Road West, built around letting stories speak through food.