Fresh dining options: New restaurants helmed by newly-arrived chefs

Now that dining restrictions are gradually getting lifted, it’s high time to explore new restaurants that started operating only this year and which feature newly-arrived chefs from overseas. Here are some of the newly-opened restaurants that offer a range of dishes, including an exotic mixed Spanish-Japanese cuisine:

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Ando

Along Wellington Street, nestled on the 1st floor of the Somptueux Central building is the chic dining space of Jia Groups’ Ando by Chef Ferrando Balbi. Their modern tasting menu combines Chef Balbi’s Spanish roots with his expertise in Japanese cuisine. Priced at $780 per person for a six-course lunch menu which focuses on a different ‘hero’ ingredient every month. One of their signature dishes includes a dish that reflects on the chef’s own childhood lunch favorites, the rice caldoso cooked in three stocks, and Japanese rice that is simmered in low heat for eight hours. 

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Cobo House

Cobo house reopens with a fresh new concept and direction featuring an ‘unspoken’ tasting menu of western dishes. Settled on the sixth floor of the K11 Musea, the Bohemian lifestyle fine dining restaurant presents its four-course lunch menu designed by executive chefs Ray Choi and Devon Hou, both trained in Michelin-starred restaurants. The menu offers newly curated edible art every six weeks at $680 per head. 

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Sushi Haru

Although relatively new to the art of Edomae, Masterchef Motoharu Inazuka has proven his dedication to the craft of sushi-making which has led him to Hong Kong to lead one Black Sheep Restaurants’ new ventures, Sushi Haru. Offering Omakase style menu based on ingredients delivered fresh on the day. Lunch at this exclusive eight-seater dining space will set patrons back $1000 per person but they can enjoy quality service and the company of Chef Inazuka himself. Reservations may need to be made a month ahead of time. 

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Hansik Goo

Top Michelin Starred Korean Chef Mingoo Kang delivers to Hong Kong Hansik Goo, a Korean restaurant in Central with a creatively innovative flare. In a four-courses or full seven-course tasting menu priced at $480 and $780 respectively. There is also the option to add on some of the restaurants more popular dishes which are the Korean Fried Chicken with Yuza Jang and Paejon seafood pancake with scallion. 

 

See also: Top Omakase Sushi Restaurants in Hong Kong

Find more information at the restaurants’ official websites by clicking the links below:

Ando

Cobo House

Sushi Haru

Hansik Goo