3 Best Restaurants in Hong Kong, China

Chef Jason Atherton worked at some of the best kitchens in the world before opening the highly successful London restaurant Pollen Street Social in 2011. His culinary empire has since expanded to more than a dozen outlets around the world, with Aberdeen Street Social being one of the more recent additions. This bi-level space is located at the former Police Married Quarters and encompasses a restaurant, café, and bar. Head upstairs to enjoy meticulously plated modern British fare, such as the signature CLT (crab, lettuce, and tomato) and braised ox cheek with roasted bone marrow. You can also grab a table downstairs and try the casual, all-day menu and house special drinks.

Rosewood Hong Kong's lush afternoon tea experience at The Butterfly Room will make you feel as though you're a Disney princess. The fixed set comes with creative welcome bites, finger sandwiches, baked scones, and sweets—not to mention the dramatic chocolate trolley that'll roll by the table when you think you can't physically stomach another pastry.

In the running for Hong Kong’s most gorgeously-attired restaurant, this elegant eatery is named for its singular location in a grand old courthouse, part of the Central Magistracy block at Tai Kwun, Central’s former police compound-turned-lifestyle hotspot. Serving elegant, old-world British fare with elevated ingredients, meals at Magistracy might open with fresh oysters, smoked salmon or dressed crab, and progress to rare rib of beef, carved tableside and served with Yorkshire puddings. The gin and tonics here are some of the best in the city.