[KnowItAll]

We're doing a feature on the best restaurants in Hong Kong.

Given the following criteria, what would you recommend?

1) Should be friendly and easy to get a table. No posh / snotty places that require you to book 7 weeks in advance.

2) Should be affordable. If you really do like a place, you want to go there often... and you want others to go there and enjoy it. So lets keep the average cost at $500 / person, including a bottle of wine or reasonable amounts of alcohol.

3) Should appeal to your ethnicity / nationality. i.e. Indians will probably recommend different Indian restaurants than say... aussies would.

Categories we're looking for:

Best in Central
Best in Lan Kwai Fong
Best in SoHo
Best in Causeway Bay
Best in TST
Best in Quarry Bay
Best Hotel Restaurants
Innovative Food
Best Indian Restaurant
Best Asian Buffet
Best Pub Grub
Best American Restaurant
Best Seafood Restaurant
Best Cantonese Restaurant
Best Dim Sum
Best Thai Restaurant
Best Pizza
Best Italian Restaurant
Rest of the Best

[mercury_element]

Best Indian Restaurant: Bombay Dreams

[Lammarite]

Best in Central- Can't think of one.....
Best in Lan Kwai Fong- Stormy Weather
Best in SoHo- Jaspa's
Best in Causeway Bay- Never tried (Unless I can include Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club)
Best in TST- Swiss Chalet
Best in Quarry Bay- Never tried
Best Hotel Restaurants- High tea at the InterCon (better than Peninsula)
Innovative Food- Mine!
Best Indian Restaurant- Curry Pot lunch buffet
Best Asian Buffet- Never tried (unless you count the above)
Best Pub Grub- Diesel's on Lamma by far!
Best American Restaurant- Dan Ryan's
Best Seafood Restaurant- Lamcombe on Lamma
Best Cantonese Restaurant- Ugh, Chicken feet and pig tummies!
Best Dim Sum- Never tried
Best Thai Restaurant- The one in Rat Alley
Best Pizza- Pizza Milano
Best Italian Restaurant- Gaia by far!
Rest of the Best- Coyote for Nachos, Chuan Bar Bar for Sichuan, Win Fat for sponge cake and Ben and Jerry's for ice cream!
Honorable mention- Waterfront in Stanley

I'm sure I'll think of more......

[KnowItAll]

>> Curry Pot lunch buffet

A re-education is in order.

[saltwater]

Best in SoHo Jaspa's
Best Indian Restaurant Bombay Dreams
Best Pub Grub Old China Hand
Best American Restaurant Dan Ryan's
Best Dim Sum City Hall
Best Thai Restaurant Phukets Mid Levels
Best Pizza Pizza Express
Best Italian Restaurant Grappas

[Lammarite]

Originally Posted by KnowItAll

>> Curry Pot lunch buffet

A re-education is in order.

Fairly myopic actually as the only other Indian I've had in Hong Kong is Spicy Island on Lamma or the Deli Lamma an, errr, Lamma. While both are good, especially the Dal Makhani at the latter, I didn't want to keep voting for Lamma places! I will try JoJo's Mess when the new one opens on Fenwick Do/Lockhart Do.

Oh, I forgot, I have also been to Khan Khazana but the less said about that the better. When I'm next in TST I will try some of the places in Chungking mansions as I beleive that the best indian food is often the street level food as traditional Indian dishes rarely retail for HKD85! The best Indian food I had in Dubai or Oman was always the cheaper end of the scale.

Educate me KIA!

[jungli]

Best Thai:Sukothai in Stanley-awesome food and ambience, friendly staff..
Best American:Hard Rock in TST,friendly staff, good food, value for money,
Best Mexican:Agave

[BenderBends]

Originally Posted by Lammarite

Best Dim Sum- Never tried

Never tried dim sum ?????????


how long have you been here? you better have just arrived last night...cause dimsum is god !!!!!

[BenderBends]

and why dont people mention any of the local alley way garage door shops?

those are by far superior in flavor compaired with the big chains and whatnot....

[PDLM]

Originally Posted by mattstewart

dimsum is god !!!!!

After about 3 dimsum sessions a year for the last 6 years I have finally decided that enough is enough. I always feel crap for hours after eating it and friends I have been with have been quite ill (generally we've been at the Maxim's at City Hall, so we're not talking downmarket here). I reckon it's a combination of MSG and huge amounts of oil, but either way I've given up on it now.