The Hong Kong List

Places to go in HK, to be updated regularly.

• Wagyu Takumi: Japanese chef making French food with Japanese ingredients and technique
• Ajitomi: Japanese food in a casual setting, with French and Italian inspired dishes; meatballs are Osaka-style with bits of konnyaku jelly, good fried chicken too
• Cocotte: French NY guys open a restaurant
• Mott 32: NY's Mott street opens a place in HK
• Nur: modern
• Enmaru: top izakaya from Japan goes to Time Square
• Forum Restaurant: long standing institution with deep fried crispy chicken
• Golden Leaf: nice ambiance in the Conran
• Gogyo: Ippudo's big brother in IFC
• Aberdeen Fish Market Yee Hope Seafood Restaurant: could be interesting, sea to plate
• Sabatini: should finally make the trek!
• Papi: cicchetti, 2nd opening after Kowloon
• Sushi Sase: serves good omakase
• Xuan Sushi: apparently understated, in heart of Central
• Kenjo: apparently amazing
• Kazuo Okada: superb sushi, apparently
• Once Upon a Table: private kitchen / supper club
• Sushi Yoshitake (now called Sushi Shikon): 3 star, eight seater sushi serves omakase straight out of Tokyo; in 2009, head chef Masahiro Yoshitake got three stars the first year of opening in Tokyo; same fish as Tokyo restaurant; minimum spend of HKD2,500! 
• Sushi Kuu: chef Satoru San, as recommended by the owner so Brickhouse and Blue Butcher