Hong Kong is a notoriously expensive city. Whilst you can eat at your local cha chaan teng nightly to save some dosh, there are a litany of bars and restaurants in the city that sell some of the most luxurious and expensive things out there to bite and sip.
Check out our list below of Hong Kong’s most absurdly pricey meals, drinks, and foods and then decide where you want to spend your dollars in the city!
The 9 most expensive foods and drinks in Hong Kong
Eight-course Menu Connaisseur at Caprice – HKD4,228
At three-Michelin-starred French restaurant Caprice, housed within the Four Seasons luxury hotel, the Menu Connaisseur is one of the most expensive tasting menus available to the public for ordering. With Alaskan king crab, Brittany blue lobster, Burgaud duck, and Saga beef served, the eight-course menu is opulence incarnate, showcasing international meat and seafood using classic French techniques.
Caprice, 6/F, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, 8 Finance Street, Central, 3196 8882, book here
Rose Paradise cake at DALLOYAU – HKD2,388
DALLOYAU has been making French desserts for over 350 years, and in Hong Kong, there is evidently no limit to creating fanciful sweets that cost a bomb. The Rose Paradise is a quaint and simply-decorated cake topped with a bunch of pink roses and Dalloyau’s branding circling the rim of the dessert. Ordered five days in advance, foodies can choose between fillings of chocolate, white chocolate, and banana.
DALLOYAU, multiple locations across Hong Kong
Imperial Beluga Rare caviar at Royal Caviar Club – HKD36,000
If you didn’t jump on the early 2020s hype for caviar, you can get back on the trendy train with the most expensive caviar tin in Hong Kong courtesy of Royal Caviar Club. Sourced from the Caspian Sea, this Imperial Beluga Rare caviar is “soft and delicate” with a “legendary taste with subtle rich sea notes,” according to Royal Caviar Club. Drop five figures on this 500g tin and know what it’s like to live like a king.
Royal Caviar Club, Shop 3005A, 3/F, ifc mall, 8 Finance Street, Central, 9447 8565, order here
Royal Caviar Club, Shop G07, G/F, World Trade Centre, 280 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, 5741 6491, order here
Henriot Brut at Champagne Bar – HKD15,000
Located inside the illustrious Grand Hyatt hotel, glitzy Champagne Bar is a destination for luxurious champagne and vino sipping, including a series of champagne-based cocktails designed in-house. Amongst the bottles costing thousands of dollars, a 1989 Henriot Brut from Montagne de Reims, one of five regions in the Champagne region, ranks as the most costly bottles at the bar. You are paying for 37 years of aging and that’s why the exorbitant price tag exists!
Champagne Bar, Lobby, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, 2584 7722
Braised Ah Yat abalone with fish maw at Forum Restaurant – HKD7,200
Another three-Michelin-starred venue on our list, Cantonese banquet restaurant Forum turns every ingredient up to 11 on their á-la-carte menu, including this exuberant Ah Yat abalone with fish maw. The Ah Yat abalone is a signature dish that has been served to celebrities and foreign dignitaries around the world by master chef Yeung Koon-yat, now dished out by executive chef Adam Wong.
Forum Restaurant, 1/F, Sino Plaza, 255–257 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, 2869 8282, book here
1.6kg Porterhouse steak at Beefbar – HKD3,168
The Michelin Guide’s love for expensive delicacies arises yet again at Central’s one-starred steakhouse Beefbar with its gigantic 1.6kg Porterhouse steak. Packed deep with umami richness and juiciness, the Black Angus beef cut is a mixed breed of American and Australian cattle, making it a rare steak selection in Hong Kong.
Beefbar, 2/F, Club Lusitano, 16 Ice House Street, Central, 2110 8853, book here
Tesseron Extreme Cognac NV at Watson’s Wine – HKD80,000
This mighty bottle measures only 175cl in volume, but Tesseron Extreme Cognac is one of the most expensive spirits available for public purchase in Hong Kong. The Ugni Blanc bottle is “so rare” that the bottle description on the Watson’s Wine website reads, “… even specialists only speak of it as a memory of flavours long sought and never found.”
Watson’s Wine, multiple locations across Hong Kong, order here
Shot of Uniting Nations 40-year-old blended malt whisky at Qura Bar – HKD22,800
Distilled in 1970, with only 677 bottles released onto the market, this blend of 45-year-old Karuizawa whisky with an undisclosed 40-year-old Scotch whisky is one of the rarest spirit bottles in the world, fetching thousands of dollars at auctions. In Hong Kong, it is stocked at Qura Bar at the Regent hotel and begs a heavy price to pay for one 50ml shot.
Qura Bar, Lobby, Regent Hong Kong, Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2313 2313, book here
Dinner omakase menu at Sushi Shikon – HKD4,000
Sushi Shikon, a three Michelin-star holder for 12 years running, comes in as the most expensive sushi meal one can publicly access in Hong Kong. For a measly four-figures price for its dinner menu, your omakase meal includes five to six seasonal appetisers, 10 pieces of sushi, a soup, and dessert. Start counting your pennies for this meal will set you back a fair bit. If you factor in the CX flight, costly budget hotels, and a Tokyo version of this extravagant feast, it may still be cheaper than your Christmas trip to Japan.
Sushi Shikon, 7/F, The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, 15 Queen’s Road Central, Central, 2643 6800, book here
