Hong Kong Private Kitchens

Dinner: PRIVATE KITCHEN

Most private kitchens require reservations and are BYOB.


1. Mum Chau’s Sichaun Kitchen

37 D’Aguilar Street 8108-8550

* no atmosphere, but good food


2. Sichuan - Opera Singer/Chef

Da Ping Hua

49 Hollywood Road

2559-1317

*This is a husband/wife owned restaurant and a total experience. The wife is the Chef and an opera singer. The husband is an artist/photographer. You will experience excellent food and opera singing by the chef. They do have a vegetarian option and wine.

3. Cajun Fav - Magnolia

G/F, Shop 5, 17, Po Yan Street,
Sheung Wan
Tel: 2530 9880
www.magnolia.hk

A Creole private kitchen, which offers a unique dinner-party style dining experience. Diners are welcomed right into the kitchen, where there is a small open plan seating area where they can watch the chefs hard at work as they enjoy canapes and drinks. They are then shown up to one of three intimate dining rooms with long tables of 16 to 20, which can either be entirely booked out by one group, or if you arrive in a two, you sit with other people at the table, creating the perfect atmosphere in which to create a brand new set of friends. The food is a hearty combination of ribs, gumbo and mashed potato, which is all served family-style by the vivacious owner, Lori Granito, further encouraging interaction amongst guests. It’s like attending a dinner party thrown by a Southern American “mom,” without needing an invite and has perfectly tapped into the market of newly arrived expatriates.


4. Thai

Causeway Bay

9782-6227

*Great for groups!

5. Hot Pot and Spicy

1F, Thai Kong Bldg.
482 Hennessy Road
Causeway Bay, HK
2838-8811

6. Le Marron
12/F, Ying Kong Mansion
2 – 6 Yee Wo Street
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong
(852) 2881 6662
bookingmarron.com.hk
www.marron.com.hk
Dinner only, minimum charge $280 (BYOB but with $40 corkage per bottle)

7. Le Blanc
6/F, 83 Wan Chai Road,Wan Chai

Tel: 3428 5824

Le Blanc is a tiny French private kitchen on the sixth floor of an office block down a dingy market alleyway in Wan Chai. Like, Da Ping Huo, the obscure location only adds to the drama when you emerge from a rickety old lift into a small dining room decorated like a French country barn with huge velvet curtains sectioning off each table allowing you a perfectly private dining experience. The French food served here is near world-class and five- or nine-course menus are available from HK$350 to HK$580 per person. Given the quality of the menus, which feature everything from foie gras to decadent platters of hearty French cheeses, this is incredible value for money and a similar meal in a big hotel would cost almost three times as much before you have even looked at the wine list.

8. Alcove
(G/F, 55 Peel St, Soho, Central, 2975 9788)

Furniture designer Nelson Siu wanted to open his own furniture shop and was looking for a place in Central. When he sat down in a teahouse on Peel Street, the chef told him the owner was looking to sell the place and that’s how Alcove was born. Alcove serves Chinese fusion cuisine and their latest offer is Taidiao Fondue. Inspired by the Swiss dish, Alcove uses Taidiao, a kind of Chinese yellow wine as its base. Ingredients to go with the fondue include king clam, scallop, Japanese Wagyu and Chinese sausage. Another specialty of Alcove is its original Chinese cocktail, using a Hua Diao, Fen Liquor and Taishan special blend for a taste you will not have experienced before. An eight-course dinner costs from $268 to $388 per person depending on ingredients. And while you are busy savouring all that good food, take a glance around at the decor and furniture – it’s all is designed by Nelson, down to the bowls and plates!

9. Bon Appetit
132 Austin Road, Tai Chi Court, TST, 2314 3008
French cuisine, as well as Italian and Chinese food – or a fusion of the three.

Owner Sue, a Christian, opened the kitchen four years ago and loves sharing her beliefs with her customers. The house specialty is the soup they’ve called ‘Heart of a Woman’, in which gazpacho is ambushed by a hot, thick pumpkin soup, giving the diner a simultaneous hot-and-cold sensation which, according to Sue, is like a woman’s heart. Bon Appetit can serve 30-40 customers at a time, but a minimum of two persons is required to book a table. No walk-in is allowed. For bookings, call 2314 3008.

10. Yellow Door
6/F, Cheung Hing Commercial Building, 37 Cochrane Street, Central, 2858 6555
Sichuan and Shanghai-style cuisine

11. Club Qing
Address: 10/F, Cosmos Building, 8 - 11 Lan Kwai Fong, Central, HK
Phone: (852) 2536-9773 (Reservation)
Fax: (852) 2536-9778
Email: info@ClubQing.com
Directions: Exit D2 of Central MTR Station

Club Qing is a very special Chinese cuisine dinning restaurant (also know as Speakeasies) decorated in the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 A.D.) theme. The fine cuisine that we serve are unique and authenticated Cantonese food. We are also famous for our exquisite Chinese tea. At Club Qing, you not only enjoy the finest Chinese cuisine, but also the elegant environment, exceptional service, and marvelous Chinese tea.

12. ORO 18
18/F, South China Building, 1 Wyndham St., Central.
Website: http://www.oro18.hk

13. Gio's
http://www.gios.com.hk

14, Plats (european food in central area)
Tel: 2971 0808

15. Lips (chef is a former chef of Petrus)
Tel: 93860981

16. Jean Restaurant
jpghk@netvigator.com
The place is Jean's home in Lamma Island.

17. La Bouteille
Tel: 2526 2621
The chef has lived in France for more than 10 years.

18. Palace Kitchen (central area,former chef of Stanley Ho)
Tel:6100 6872
http://www.palacekitchen.net/

19. Tungs House (chinese food in central area, 100 seats, won award in France)
Tel:25715168

20. Good Choi (in Wan Chai)
Tel: 2838 6959
goodchoi@america.com.hk