For the first time ever, Hong Kong will be welcoming Eat Spain Drink Spain 2025 from Oct. 1-15, a celebration of Spain’s flamboyant culinary traditions, tapas culture, and quality wine.
During the two-week-long programme, expect limited-time Spanish menus, deals, and events at Spanish and Chinese restaurants, discounts online for Spanish produce and wine, and workshops across Hong Kong.
Eat Spain Drink Spain 2025 is organised by the Spanish Trade Commission in Hong Kong and Food and Wines from Spain, co-funded by the European Union to extend the passion and romance of Spain’s gastronomy to Hong Kong, a city that loves to dine.
Below is a taste of the best things happening in early October during Eat Spain Drink Spain 2025 in Hong Kong. In total, 23 restaurants, nine online shops, five workshops and tastings, and three physical stores will be hosting celebrations this October!
1. San Sebastian night buffet at 1862 Bar de Tapas y Vino
Tai Kwun’s very-own Spanish tapas emporium 1862 Bar de Tapas y Vino has imported the flavours of Spain’s tapas-capital San Sebastian to a one-night-only buffet. On Oct. 14 from 7PM to 10PM, prepare for a feast with their San Sebastian night buffet (HKD888 pp.), including a refreshing selection of grilled scallops, bacalao pil pil, mussels croquetas, gilda, grilled lamb on toast, and two special drinks: txacoli dry white wine and patxaran liquor.
1862 Bar de Tapas y Vino, Shop 14–G01, G/F, D Hall, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, 2633 1862, WhatsApp 9889 1862 , book here
2. Tasting lunch set and tapas deals at Café Costa del Sol
Located in Tsim Sha Tsui’s central neighbourhood, Café Costa del Sol promotes all things tapas with grand selections of paella, salted meats, seafood, pinchittos, and desserts. Through the length of Eat Drink Spain Drink 2025, Café Costa del Sol is offering a tasting lunch set (HKD168) with a paella, bocadillo sandwich, and three tapas. From Tuesday to Thursday 3PM to 5:45PM, tuck into their buy one get one free deal for any three tapas and an alcoholic beverage.
Café Costa del Sol, Shop 4B, G/F, Windsor Mansions, 17 Austin Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui, 9786 2976
3. Traditional Spanish tapas at El Vaso de Oro
The diversity of Spain’s tapas cuisine is on full show from Oct. 1-15 at El Vaso de Oro with nine limited-time dishes from Andalusia, Basque, Catalonia, Galicia, and Madrid. The signatures on the menu at this Sheung Wan Restaurant include baby shrimp fritters (HKD128), beef tripe stew with chickpea (HKD148), fresh clams with rice in green sauce (HKD198), crispy pig’s ear with Madrid-style brava sauce (HKD118), and stuffed mussels (HKD28, pc).
El Vaso de Oro, G/F, 44 Sai Street, Sheung Wan, 2506 2518, book here
4. Spanish tasting menu at Ping Pong 129
Sai Ying Pun-based gin bar Ping Pong 129 is hosting a Spanish tasting menu (HKD380 pp.) from Oct. 2-9 to promote the best of the country’s flavours in a trendy setting. Starting off with tapas platter with crystal bread with tomato and arbequina oil, Basque sausage Txistorra, and galician padrón peppers, the main dish of the menu includes a pick of slow braised beef cheek in Rioja wine with mashed potatoes and vegetables or fried rice with squid. The menu ends with a soothing lapsang souchong ice cream with churros.
Ping Pong 129, L/GF, Nam Cheong House, 29 Second Street, Sai Ying Pun, 9835 5061
5. 10-course dinner menu at La Paloma
Celebrating 10 years serving quality Spanish food in Hong Kong this October, La Paloma have joined in on the fun for Eat Drink Spain Drink 2025 with a 10-course dinner tasting menu (HKD498 pp.) available from Oct. 1-15. The menu is packed with all the classics including steak tartar with toast,Ibérico ham croquettes, duroc pork “pluma” with spinach & mushroom sauce, a choice of paella, and Basque burnt cheesecake with mis berries sorbet.
La Paloma, 1/F, Soho 189, 189 Queen’s Road West, Sai Ying Pun, 2291 6161, WhatsApp 5249 2406, book here
6. The Battle of Wine night at El Cerdo
El Cerdo in SoHo is inviting diners to experience what could be Spain’s most wine-fuelled event of the year, The Battle of Wine (HKD888 pp.), celebrated annually in La Rioja, Spain. On Oct. 18 from 7PM to 10PM, dive mouth first into a free-flow of Riojas wine and sangria with a meat-focused buffet at El Cerdo. For bites, expect meatballs, pork belly, meat paella, gambas, cold cuts, and more. Just make sure to leave the night with your red wine-stained t-shirts, as is tradition in La Rijoa.
El Cerdo, G/F, 38 Elgin Street, Central, 2832 9222
7. Limited-time Iberian ham special sandwich Casa Ibérica
Tai Ping Shan’s al-fresco Ibérico ham store Casa Ibérica is flying the Spanish flag for Eat Spain Drink Spain 2025 with a limited-time special sandwich from Oct. 1-15. The juicy sandwich contains 100% acorn-fed Iberian ham from Guijuelo, cured for 64 months, with melted truffle Manchego cheese and fresh grated tomato, extra virgin olive oil and freshly baked crystal bread. Grab it fast before it sells out!
Casa Ibérica, G/F, 18B Tai Ping Shan Street, Sheung Wan, 5236 4696
8. Spanish-themed meal sets at Mirage Bar & Restaurant
The Wan Chai-based contemporary dining space Mirage Bar & Restaurant, located prominently inside the grand Renaissance Hotel, is launching a Spanish-themed lunch and afternoon tea set to promote the strength of Spanish tapas, paella, meats and seafood, and desserts. Be sure to try their fried calamari balls, garlic shrimp in olive oil, Spanish duroc bone-in pork chop, and churros.
Mirage Bar & Restaurant, 1/F, Renaissance Harbour View Hotel Hong Kong, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, 2802 8888
9. El ‘Buen Camino’ menu at Rústico
Rústico, a homely Spanish restaurant located in Lai Chi Kok, is launching their El ‘Buen Camino’ promotion from Oct. 1-15, an à-la-carte menu comprising signature dishes from towns and cities along Spain’s pilgrimage network Camino de Santiago from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. Their tapas selection includes la rioja codfish cakes, burgos grilled blood sausage, ponferrada crispy pork belly, and pamplona seared white asparagus.
Rústico, Shop G01, G/F, D2 Place One, 9 Cheung Yee Street, Lai Chi Kok, 2743 4511
10. Spanish wine tasting at Hong Kong Wine Academy
Earn yourself a first-hand experience of the beauty of Spain’s vineyards with a range of wine tastings to please your palate. On Oct. 11, Hong Kong Wine Academy is hosting a Spanish wine tasting (HKD780 pp.) exploring eight wines from Spain’s premier wine-making regions, including Rijoa, Rías Baixas, Ribera del Duero, and Priorat. The tasting workshop will introduce Spain’s main grape varieties, winemaking styles, and serving and pairing suggestions.
Hong Kong Wine Academy, Room 503, 5/F, Mary Building, 71-77 Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2723 0399
11. Gift redemption for Borges products across Hong Kong
During the length of Eat Spain Drink Spain in Hong Kong, a list of Spanish-speciality online stores and importers are offering special discounts on Spanish products, including CitySuper. Borges, a leading Spanish oil and food company, is offering a gift set redemption with the purchase of any two Borges 1L olive oil bottles from Oct. 1-15 at Wellcome, Parknshop, U Select, Aeon, Yata, Uny and Apita.
12. Discounted Bellota-Bellota products at CitySuper
At CitySuper’s branch locations in ifc mall, TimeSquare, New Town Plaza, and Harbour City, Bellota Bellota are offering 10% off on Spanish products at CitySuper, with two glasses of Spanish red wine and 100 grams of Ibérico ham available per person to enjoy at CitySuper Times Square. This offer is available from Oct. 1-15.
13. Spanish candy workshop at Papabubble
In the space of hands-on fun, Papabubble is hosting daily candy workshops from Oct. 1-15 for those seeking to create Spanish sweets. For the price of HKD680 for two participants, the hour-long classes challenge you to create Papububble’s signature smilies or hearts-patterned rock candy, available to chomp down back at home. Each registration to a class is entitled to entry for one participant aged three years old or above.
Papabubble, G/F, 34 Tung Lo Wan Road, Tai Hang, 6311 8286
Eat Spain Drink Spain 2025 is bridging a cultural and gastronomical partnership between Spain and Hong Kong this October with exclusive menus, wine tastings, culinary workshops, and retail promotions.
Representing Spain’s global culinary outreach, have a feel for what makes Spain irresistibly tasty this October in Hong Kong. Find out more information on menus, events, and deals here!
This feature is brought to Foodie in partnership with the Spanish Commercial Office in Hong Kong & Macau.
