Where to eat on Valentine’s Day in Hong Kong – steak, oysters, lobster and decadent desserts. Better book that table for 2 soon
Brazilian-Japanese restaurant Uma Nota’s (38 Peel Street, Central, tel: 2889 7576) February 14 menu (HK$688 or US$88 per person) includes a filet mignon with tare sauce and roast potatoes topped with black truffle. For dessert, the Amor de Chocolate, a chocolate mousse with Brazil nuts, chocolate crumble and wild berry coulis looks sublime.
Uma Nota’s Valentine’s Day Menu includes a chocolate mousse with Brazil nuts, chocolate crumble and wild berry coulis. Photo: Uma Nota
If modern Indian food is your thing, then head to Leela (Shop 301-310, Lee Garden Three, 1 Sunning Road, Causeway Bay, tel: 2882 5316) on February 14 to indulge in its Valentine’s Day menu (HK$1,488 per guest).
Starting with rosé champagne, highlights include oyster varathiathu served on iddyappam, a traditional South Indian steamed rice noodle. There is also lamb kasturi biryani and the crab xec xec, a dish inspired by Goan crab curry and made by simmering crabs in a roasted spice coconut paste-based curry sauce. End with a decadent chocolate strawberry heart.
Lamb kasturi biryani (left) and crab xec xec on the February 14 menu at Leela. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography
There is also Chaiwala (Yu Yuet Lai Building, Basement, 43-55, Wyndham Street, Central, tel: 2362, 8988), which offers A Royal Love Story dinner on February 14 (HK$590 per person, additional HK$280 per person for drinks pairing) which features rose-flavoured malai chicken seekh, and lamb yakhni pulao.
Giando Italian Restaurant & Bar’s (Shop 1, G/F, Tower, 9 Star Street, Wan Chai, tel: 2511 8912) dinner menu on February 14 includes oyster with Tuscan bread, home-made tagliolini with caviar and tomato water, and poached lobster with black truffle.
Oysters, considered an aphrodisiac, often appear on Valentine’s Day menus. Playt (Pullman Hotel, 1F, The Park Lane, 310 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, tel: 2839 3311) is serving them fresh on February 14, but it is the look of its beef Wellington topped with heart-shaped bits of pastry, and served with pan-fried foie gras, that we are in love with.
Beef Wellington topped with pastry hearts is on the Valentine’s Day menu at Playt in Causeway Bay. Photo: Playt
The Meat Co. Hong Kong’s (Shop 6, LG/F, Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan) Valentine’s Day feast includes a half-grilled lobster with lobster claw, two lamb chops, a heart-shaped beef tenderloin, fries, grilled vegetables and a strawberry cheese mousse cake.
It comes with “Bubbles of Love” – a rosé sparkling wine with strawberry, popping candy and cream. The set meal for two is available from February 1-18.
TokyoLima’s “Red String Night” menu takes guests on a sensory journey. Photo: TokyoLima
Japanese Peruvian fusion favourite TokyoLima (G/F Car Po Commercial Building, 18-20, Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, tel: 2811 1152) has embraced the red thread of fate, the idea in Eastern philosophy that two people connected by such a thread are destined to be lovers, regardless of place, time or circumstances.
Its “Red String Night” menu (HK$780 per person, additional HK$248 per person for drinks pairing) celebrates this by taking guests on a sensory journey: oysters and hot scallop ceviche, grilled Aji lobster and its signature rib-eye steak. End with a heart-shaped brownie with rose chocolate mousse and strawberry gelato.
End your Valentine’s Day meal at Racines with this rose, raspberry and lychee-flavoured heart cake. Photo: Racines
Enjoy French dining at its best at Racines (22 Upper Station Street, Sheung Wan), which is marking the day with a six-course menu (HK$1,788 per person) that includes a starter of duck neck stuffed with lard, foie gras, makrut lime leaf and diced ginger.
Rounding off the meal is a heart cake blending the floral and fruity flavours of rose, raspberry and lychee.
Frites (various locations) is known for mussels and fries, but for Valentine’s Day it has a four-course feast (HK$1,495 for two) that starts with “ravio-love” pasta filled with braised short-rib beef, creamed porcini and truffle. It ends with a cannoli, the sugar-snap tubes filled with lush pistachio custard.
Quiero Más’ (20/F, M88, 2-8 Wellington Street, Central, tel: 2383 0268) seven-course Sabor de Amor menu for Valentine’s Day (HK$1,388 per couple) starts with an amuse-bouche, which is followed by tapas such as Avruga caviar on fresh fine de claire oysters, scallop and lobster ceviche, red prawn “Al Ajillo”, and its famous suckling pig.
Up the romance volume with a rooftop terrace table.
Dine under the stars at The Peak Lookout (21 Peak Road, The Peak, tel: 2849 1000) and enjoy its February 14 menu (HK$888 per person). The four-course meal ends with a Lovers Platter: feuillantine, raspberry stracciatella, macarons and doughnuts. Each couple gets a gift from South Korean skincare brand Kuoca.
Bedu’s (40 Gough Street, Central, online reservations only) February 13 and 14 menu (HK$698 per person) begins with a selection of meze-inspired amuse-bouches as well as beetroot hummus and spinach labneh; and a gooey, rose-infused, honey-baked feta. Also on the menu is a lobster medallion with saffron and grilled beef tenderloin served with mashed sweet potato and pomegranate sauce.
Harbourside Grill (Shop OTE 401, Level 4, Ocean Terminal Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2619 9100) is dishing up some smooth jazz tunes to accompany its five-course dinner featuring seared duck foie gras with sweet and sour passion fruit and pineapple sauce, Scottish scallops with samphire and seaweed beurre blanc, and line-caught sea bass with artichokes and shellfish vinaigrette.
End with a plain chocolate crèmeux garnished with chocolate brownie.
Afternoon delights
The Sky Lounge (18/F, Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers, 20 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2369 1111) has joined forces with artist Leon Lai (@LeonLollipop) to create the Purrfect Afternoon Tea.
Inspired by the artist’s Gloomie Cat creation, it is available from February 14 to March 17 and includes pretty pink treats such as raspberry chocolate tarts, strawberry macarons and lychee raspberry rose choux.
Sky Lounge in the Sheraton’s Purrfect Afternoon Tea is available from February 14 to March 17. Photo: Sky Lounge
Woobar’s (W Hotel, 6/F, 1 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 3717 2889) February 14 afternoon tea (HK$728 for two) features treats such as orange raspberry macarons, hazelnut espresso cupcakes and cranberry trifle.
Balance it out with savoury bites such as foie gras terrine with chilli plain chocolate and Spanish ham truffle sandwich.
Orange raspberry macarons are one of the sweet treats at Woobar’s February 14 afternoon tea. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography
Hit the sweet spot
If you are looking for sweet treats to share at home, we love the cool chocolate and raspberry heart-shaped choux (HK$40 per piece, HK$200 for six) from The Baker & The Bottleman (various locations). Available to order from February 1, with in-store pickup on February 13-15.
Chocolate and raspberry heart-shaped choux from The Baker & The Bottleman. Photo: The Baker & The Bottleman
We are also loving The Cakery’s (various locations) vegan-friendly Vintage Love Cake (HK$598), inspired by the ornate French Rococo style of the 1700s, and its bite-sized Love You Cookie Pops (HK$90 each) made with decadent fondant. Available for pickup until February 15.
The Cakery’s vegan-friendly Vintage Love Cake (top right) and bite-sized Love You Cookie Pops. Photo: The Cakery
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