'ONE CANNOT THINK WELL, LOVE WELL OR SLEEP WELL IF ONE HAS NOT DINED WELL' – VIRGINIA WOOLF

Restaurant review

The Chocolate Library

Fully aware of my love of food, and particularly my adoration of chocolate, as my leaving present from AsiaSpa, the lovely girls gave me a voucher for afternoon tea at the Ritz-Carlton’s Chocolate Library. I'm sure you can imagineRead more

Yardbird

Since even before it opened, I had heard nothing but good publicity about Yardbird’s chicken yakitori. Knowing that the chef, Matt Abergel, had been poached from Zuma, I wasn’t at all surprised at what I was hearing and wasRead more

FINDS….. Again!

I was invited to the media preview of ‘A Nordic Autumn’ at FINDS, a five-course menu tasting extravaganza. Having only just started work and begun to re-accustom my body to the early mornings, the thought of the trek across toRead more

AVA Restaurant Slash Bar

I have been making the treacherous journey to the ‘dark side’ fairly frequently recently and have begun to think that it isn’t actually all that dark. On Wednesday evening I was invited to represent Sassy HK at a media previewRead more

Armani/Aqua

I was invited to the soft opening of the new Armani restaurant by Aqua on Monday evening and was utterly spoilt rotten. As you approach the brand new restaurant, which officially opens today, you walk down a long red andRead more

The Grand Stage at Western Market

I am very aware that I call my blog The Dim Sum Diaries and yet there is not a single dim sum review on here. There isn’t really an excuse for it other than that I always go back to theRead more

Magnolia

Since moving back to Hong Kong last year, I had heard a lot of hype about Lori Granito’s Magnolia, but had not had the chance to try it until this weekend for a very good friend’s birthday party. If you knowRead more

Le Chéri

**CLOSED DOWN** I was recently asked by Timeout HK to do a review of a new French-Italian fusion restaurant in western Mid-Levels called Le Chéri. It’s one of those restaurants, like many others in Hong Kong, that has all theRead more

Davis

For dinner on Wednesday night, we wanted to explore an area we had not ventured to before, somewhere easy to get to, relaxed and very casual. Davis in Kennedy Town ticked all these boxes. Run by a lovely couple calledRead more

FINDS

FINDS, Hong Kong’s only Nordic restaurant (the name stands for Finland Iceland Norway Denmark Sweden), has made a bold move over to ‘the dark side’. I unfortunately never actually visited it when it was right on our doorstep in LKFRead more