The global Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges it has brought to Hong Kong over the past three months has made many among us realise and better appreciate the things we have long granted, be it spending time at home with family, catching up with loved ones, or the ability to freely dine out in your favourite restaurants.
This Mother's Day, and in the spirit of celebrating the present moment — while observing the necessary hygiene practices and social distancing measures, of course — we round up our selection of Michelin-rated restaurants where you can enjoy special offers and pampering meals with your mother, while supporting the cherished Hong Kong restaurants that have helped to keep the city's residents fed through times of struggle and moments of celebration.
Forum
Three MICHELIN stars
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
Indulge Mum in a well-deserved feast this Mother's Day at Forum, which was newly promoted to three MICHELIN stars in the latest MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020 edition. The exclusive Mother’s Day Set Menu features the restaurant's signature Braised Ah Yat Abalone with Goose Web and Vegetables — consisting premium Japanese Yoshihama abalone meticulously braised for days — along with a nourishing Birds Nest with Minced Chicken Soup, Stir-fried Prawn with Japanese Sea Cucumber and Honey Pea and more. Diners who order the Mother’s Day set menu also get to enjoy a can of the restaurant's Abalone in Supreme Sauce at the offer price of $980 (original price $1888).
Call +852 2869 8282 for enquiries and reservations
8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana
Three MICHELIN stars
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
A trip to Italy may be off the cards for now, but you can still treat the most important lady in your life to a taste of Italy at the lauded three-MICHELIN-star restaurant by Hong Kong's most prominent Italian chef, Umberto Bombana. The restaurant, which is usually closed on Sundays, will specially open its doors for Mother's Day to offer a 7-course set menu that includes delightful creations such as a starter of in-season white asparagus with Oscietra caviar, king crab served with sea urchin and crab jus, as well as crowd-favourites such as the Baby Lamb from Pyrenees with olives and caponata. Round off the menu with a dessert of pistachio, strawberry and milk gelato — a sweet and sour creation that reflects the myriad complexities of parenthood, says chef Bombana, himself a father of two. The menu costs $1880 per person with additional wine pairing available at $880.
View the full menu here or call +852 2537 8859 for enquiries and reservations
Pierre
Two MICHELIN stars
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
Located on the 25th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, two-MICHELIN-star Pierre by veteran French chef Pierre Gagnaire has launched a 4-course Mother's Day tasting menu ($988 per person), only available at lunch. Cool down in this hot weather with an unusual starter of white asparagus ice-cream flavoured with cardamom and Oscietra caviar, followed by other delicate dishes such as crabmeat cooked in sweet butter, green peas and your choice of Meunière-style skate with potatoes or Wagyu beef entrecôte served with buckwheat pancakes. Finish the meal with the Grand Dessert, a collection of many of Gagnaire's signature desserts. Every mother will receive a flower bouquet and an additional sweet treat made especially by pastry chef Alexandre Brusquet.
See the full menu here and call +852 2825 4001 for enquiries and reservations
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Tin Lung Heen
Two MICHELIN stars
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
This Mother's Day, Tin Lung Heen, perched on the 102nd floor of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in West Kowloon, offers a new service for mothers who are particular about keeping their social distance. Groups of up to four can enjoy a six-course Well-Being menu ($3,988 for four) in the privacy of the restaurant's private VIP rooms. The private dining experience is available for lunch and dinner on May 10 and orders of every set come with a complimentary bottle of champagne and a Mother's Day cake on the house. The hotel also offers other indulgent experiences for the occasion, such as a Breakfast for Mom cooking workshop (HK$478 per participant) for Dad and the little ones, a Dear Mom staycation package inclusive of a picnic basket, spa and dining vouchers and complimentary photoshoot as well as special offers on spa treatments.
For enquiries and reservations, call +852 2263 2270
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Arbor
Two MICHELIN stars
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
Enjoy Finnish chef Eric Räty's refined take on Japanese ingredients using French techniques and his Nordic sensibilities at Arbor, a new entrant to the two MICHELIN star ranks of the MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau in 2020. The restaurant, which is usually closed on Sundays, will specially open on Mother's Day for diners to treat their mothers to Arbor's seasonal dinner menu, and a sensational view of the glittering lights of the Hong Kong skyline while dining. The restaurant offers two options — a 6-course menu for $1,488 per person or 10 courses for $1,888 — that include many of chef Räty's signatures, such as his creative combination of scallops with an emulsion of homemade XO sauce and a choice of pigeon, pork or A4 Wagyu for mains.
For enquiries and reservations, call +852 3185 8388
Man Wah
One MICHELIN star
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Helmed by Wong Wing-Keung, Man Wah at the Mandarin Oriental will launch a special 6-course lunch tasting menu ($688 per person) and a 7-course dinner tasting menu ($1,288 per person) for Mother's Day this Sunday. The lunch set include a dim sum platter of beetroot dumpling, chicken tart with whole abalone and tiger prawn har gau, along with dishes such as cheese baked crab, stewed E-fu noodles and a dessert of Bird’s nest with red bean cream and glutinous rice dumplings. Dinner includes deep-fried lobster with sakura sauce and pan-fried Australian M9 Wagyu. Every mother dining in can also take home a tin of Rose Chinese Tea.
Browse the restaurant menus here or call +852 2825 4003 for enquiries and reservations
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Tosca di Angelo
One MICHELIN star
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
For Mother's Day, Tosca di Angelo at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong will launch a 4-course brunch ($748 per person) featuring the traditional flavours of Italy that its Sicilian culinary director Angelo Agliano grew up with. Highlights include the blue lobster with caviar, sea urchin risotto, traditional fish stew and apricot sorbet with meringue. Guests can choose to add on free-flow serves of NV Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Brut, NV Ruinart Blanc de Blancs or Louis Roederer Cristal 2009 champagnes ($898, $1,080 and $2,488 respectively). A 4-course Mother's Day dinner menu is also available ($1,288 per person, add $780 for wine pairing), including dishes such as bluefin tuna with Sicilian seafood sauce and caviar, grilled Iberian pork and an Italian cheesecake to finish.
Call +852 2263 2270 for enquiries and reservations
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Mandarin Grill + Bar
One MICHELIN star
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
Designed by acclaimed interior designer Sir Terence Conran, the Mandarin Grill + Bar will launch a special Mother's Day Sunday Roast Menu ($888 per adult, $588 per child) on 10 May, when guests can enjoy a range of appetisers featuring premium Wagyu beef, Alaskan king crab and Japanese organic eggs, followed by a main course of grilled meats and side dishes and your selection of desserts from a dessert trolley. For an additional $358, enjoy two hours of unlimited pours of 'R' de Ruinart champagne and wines specially selected by the sommelier, or another two hours of unlimited Ruinart Blanc de Blancs champagne and wines for $548. Every mother will also receive a special gift.
View the menu here and call +852 2825 4004 for enquiries and reservations
Spring Moon
One MICHELIN star
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
What better way to celebrate the occasion in style than with a sumptuous and nutritious meal at the Peninsula Hotel, the grande dame of Hong Kong's hospitality scene. The hotel's flagship Cantonese restaurant is helmed by 20-year veteran chef Lam Yuk Ming, who will present a special set dinner for four persons ($4,980 for four, $1,280 per person for additional diners) for Mother's Day. The dishes include prized ingredients such as double-boiled sea conch soup with fish maw, sea cucumber and goose webs braised in supreme oyster sauce and a dessert of double-boiled American ginseng with red dates, chrysanthemum, goji berries and lotus seeds. Take your pick from the restaurant's selection of more than 30 types of tea leaves to enjoy over a relaxing post-meal sip with mum.
Browse the menu here and call +852 2696 6760 for enquiries and reservations
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Ming Court Mongkok
One MICHELIN star
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
Make Mother's Day an entire weekend of celebrations at Ming Court Mongkok — one of the few high-end Chinese restaurants in the neighbourhood — thanks to the restaurant's special Mother's Day menus available for lunch and dinner on both 9 and 10 May. In the afternoons, diners can order a la carte from the restaurant's festive menu, which includes delicate creations such as the rose petal and red bean steamed buns and double-boiled birds nest with pear, while dinner degustation menus highlight executive chef Li Yuet Faat's signature dishes such as the South African abalone braised with shiitake mushroom and goose webs and the Baked Stuffed Crab Shell With Fresh Crab Meat.
Browse the lunch and dinner menus and call +852 3552 3028 for enquiries and reservations
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Beefbar
One MICHELIN star
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
The Hong Kong outpost of the Monaco steakhouse, Beefbar, has consistently impressed Michelin inspectors since it opened on our shores in 2015 — and now you can impress your meat-loving mother too, with the restaurant's 4-course Mother's Day lunch set menu ($780 per person) and 5-course dinner set menu ($980 per person). Both sets include a Wagyu ribeye steak, served with an oolong tea broth. Other dishes include beef carpaccio, pan-fried squid with Jerusalem artichoke salad, home-made Italian langoustine ravioli, and the traditional French mille feuille for dessert. Mothers will be presented a carnation bouquet to take home.
View the menu here and call +852 2110 8853 for enquiries and reservations
Yat Tung Heen (Jordan)
One MICHELIN star
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
If you plan to start your Mother's Day celebration early, chef Tam Tung of Yat Tung Heen in Jordan has launched a 4-person, 9-course Mother's Day tasting set menu ($3,280 for four), available from now till 10 May. The menu starts with the restaurant's famed honey-glazed barbecue pork and crispy roasted pork belly, followed by Braised Bird's Nest Soup with Crab Meat, Braised Whole South African Abalone (10 heads) with Black Mushroom and Steamed Fresh Leopard Coral Garoupa. Table bookings of 4 or more will enjoy a complimentary bottle of Perrier-Jouët champagne.
Browse the menu here and call +852 2710 1093 for enquiries and reservations
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Zest by Konishi
One MICHELIN star
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
To celebrate Mother's Day, Japanese-French restaurant Zest by Konishi by chef Mitsuru Konishi — which clinched a star in the MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020 after just four months — will offer a 5-course lunch menu ($780 per person) and an 8-course evening menu ($1,880 per person) on 10 May. The menus showcase chef Konishi's French-inflected take on prized Japanese ingredients such as Kagoshima pork and Kinmedai, alongside as locally bred Ping Yuen chicken. The lunch set includes selections such as heirloom tomatoes with burrata cheese; white asparagus with onsen eggs and Comte cheese; and lamb rack with watercress, while dinner comprises akagai with zucchini and cauliflower, Wagyu beef consommé and lobster with Japanese Kabocha pumpkin. End the meal with a Rose and Raspberry Saint Honore and a complimentary box of Japanese Strawberries for every Mum to take home.
Browse the menu here and call +852 2715 0878 for enquiries and reservations
Épure
One MICHELIN star
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
There's no better time than now for a hearty celebration at Épure, as the contemporary restaurant by French chef Nicolas Boutin is offering a 25 per cent discount on its dinner set menus from now until 17 May (original price $1,488 per person). Diners can enjoy chef Boutin's modern takes on classic French flavours — such as his Paris Mushroom Soup and Baby Spinach Gnocchi made using champignons de Paris, said to be King Louis XIV’s favourite mushroom — in the restaurant's magnificent dining room created by globally renowned design firm Yabu Pushelberg, or in its alfresco French garden with Victoria Harbour as a backdrop.
Call +852 3185 8338 for enquiries and reservations
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Legacy House
MICHELIN Plate
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
There's no more fitting venue for a celebration of filial piety than at The Legacy House, which opened in the Rosewood Hotel just last year in homage to the hotel group CEO Sonia Cheng's grandfather. This Mother's Day, the restaurant has specially designed lunch and dinner menus that emphasise executive chef Li Chi Wai's modern refinements of traditional Shunde cuisine. The lunch set ($800 per person) includes a selection of dim sum followed by dishes such as Double-boiled Chicken Soup with Bird’s Nest, Braised Fish Curd with Crab Cream, Chilled Aloe with Pomegranate Cream, and Baked Sago Custard Puff with Bamboo Charcoal. The 8-course dinner set ($1,800 per person) comprises an appetiser selection, Double-boiled Partridge Soup, Pan-fried Scallops, Braised Hokkaido Sea Cucumber and more. Mothers will be presented with a collection of speciality herbal teas to enjoy at home.
For enquiries and reservations, call +852 3891 8732
Chesa
MICHELIN Plate
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
Swiss restaurant Chesa in the Peninsula Hotel has been feeding generations of families in the five decades since its opening in 1965. For Mother's Day this year, the restaurant will yet again welcome families with a special 4-course lunch set ($628 per person), which includes a classic Raclette du Valais; Green Asparagus Cappuccino With Gruyère Cheese Shortbread, and your choice of Dover sole fillet or grilled beef tenderloin for mains. End the meal on a sweet note with a Choux flower served with rose tea cream, red fruit coulis and strawberry balsamic sorbet as well as a golden apple compote with white chocolate mousse and chamomile curd. Diners can also order a la carte dishes (minimum consumption of $ 418 per person) for a taste of the restaurant ’s signature cheese fondue and other dishes.
Browse the menu here or call +852 2696 6769 for reservations and enquiries
Chilli Fagara
MICHELIN Plate
MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020
Spice up your mother's day treat with Chesa's 4-person dinner set menu, exclusively available this Saturday and Sunday ($1,688 for four). Dishes featured include flavourful appetisers such as the Black Truffle Spicy Chicken Salad and main courses such as Spicy fried Scallops with Fresh Chilli; Marinated Iberico Pork with Honey Garlic Sauce and Sichuan-style Smoked Tea Duck (Half), all designed for sharing. Bookings must be made two days prior.
For those who prefer to celebrate at home, the restaurant has also launched a child-friendly Make-at-Home Chilli Dumpling Pack, which includes fresh ingredients to recreate ten of the restaurant's well-loved dumplings at home, complete with easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions to help kids navigate the intricate art of Chinese dumpling making. A jar of Chilli Fagara’s famed Ma sauce completes the set. The special pack ($150) is available from 7 to 10 May 2020 via Deliveroo or by picking it up in-store. Pick-up purchases will receive a 15 per cent discount but they have to be pre-ordered before 9 May.
For reservations and pre-orders, call +852 2796 6866
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Written by Debbie Yong and compiled by Mandy Li.
