Find out the best places to eat and drink in Hong Kong this October 2026, from our guide list of new menus and cocktails.

Created together with Hongkong Land and LANDMARK, OPEN by HE.R – Halloween in Central is the opening move of Hong Kong's Halloween season. It's conceived as an epic city-centre masquerade, inviting families, friends, and music lovers to encounter Central from a new perspective. Expect HE.R's most powerful sound system to date, its most ambitious stage design yet, and the opportunity to explore "A Place to Chater". A New Kind of Hong Kong Moment For those unfamiliar with HE.R

INTERVIEW With 13 years of experience in the UK before returning to Asia, Roderick Tong has helped establish and grow design practices across the region, including Make’s Beijing office and Conran and Partners’ first Asia office in Hong Kong. At HBA Hong Kong, he oversees architecture, façade design, master planning and large-scale lifestyle developments, bringing together strategic leadership and a people-focused approach to design. In this interview, Roderick shares his per

HONG KONG Halloween week at The Hive Hong Kong is less about one big party and more about a run of them. From Wednesday, October 21 to Sunday, October 25, the co-working and community space is hosting four themed evenings across its Wan Chai, Sai Kung and Lai Chi Kok spaces, covering wine and painting, a spooky social, a family-friendly haunted hangout and a group sing-along to a pop classic. Here's your guide to each night. Dracula's Paint & Delight — Wednesday, October 21

HONG KONG Hong Kong has no shortage of nail salons, but very few manage to be as easy on the eye as they are on the hands. Nail Jolly has been quietly doing both since 2010, and with three branches across Central, Taikoo Place and Tsim Sha Tsui, each with its own distinct look and mood, it makes a surprisingly strong case for the title. Three Branches, Three Moods The Central flagship is the one most likely to end up on your feed. Set on the first floor of Shama Central on Pe

HONG KONG Hong Kong's Halloween calendar is stacked this year, spanning Y2K rap nostalgia, gothic rooftop raves, a novel-inspired DJ night and a handful of unhinged costume parties in between. Here's where to spend the spookiest night of the year. No Curfew Club Vol. 4: East Coast vs. West Coast On AER's viral late-night series returns with a Halloween edition aimed squarely at clubbers in their 30s who want a big night without the sunrise cab ride home. The four-hour format

HONG KONG Few experiences feel more quintessentially Hong Kong than spending a hot day out on the water. Yacht and junk boat charters are undeniably one of the season's most enduring traditions, and we've collated some of the best charters to power your summer day at sea. Whether you're planning a birthday celebration or looking for a polished option to host your next corporate event, there's no better way to experience Hong Kong's breathtaking coastline than from the deck of

On Saturday, 24 October 2026, Midnight Espresso and The Blended Agency are co-hosting Hong Kong's first Y2K-themed junk — a full six hours on the water dedicated to the music, fashion and general chaos of the early 2000s. A Theme You Can Actually Commit To The best parties give people something to do. A dress code does that better than almost anything else, and this one is pleasingly specific. We're talking low-rise jeans, baby tees, cargo trousers, velour tracksuits, metalli

HONG KONG Hong Kong's autumn is a strange, in-between kind of season — the humidity finally breaks, but the air conditioning stays on full blast in every mall, office and MTR carriage, and skin ends up caught between the last of summer's sweat and the first of the season's dryness. YINA, the skincare and wellness brand built on Traditional Chinese Medicine, has built its entire philosophy around exactly this kind of seasonal transition. Its Fall Hydration Edit is worth paying

HONG KONG There's something a little charming about the fact that the world's favourite bitter red drink also happens to power one of the drinks industry's biggest charitable pushes. Negroni Week lands for its 14th edition this year, running globally from September 21 to 27, and Hong Kong and Macau's stretch of it is a genuinely good one — a Bangkok-fronted opening night, a free-flowing Thursday party, a guest shift down in Macao, and a workshop for anyone who'd rather learn

HONG KONG Sense of Touch Southside, the oceanfront spa at The Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel Hong Kong, is celebrating one year since opening its doors on the Aberdeen coastline with a run of anniversary offers built around the same idea the spa has leaned on since day one: that a proper sea view is as much a part of the treatment as the hands doing the work. A Year on the Southside Coastline Since opening in August 2025 under the stewardship of Sense of Touch — the well-establis

HONG KONG Most lash salons fixate on the same two variables: length and volume. However, what almost nobody talks about is direction — and for a large share of Asian lashes, which grow straight downward rather than out and up, direction is actually the root of the problem. It's why curlers slip by mid-morning, why mascara prints itself onto the eyelid by lunchtime, and why ordinary extensions often just make that downward line longer rather than lifting it. Xtreme Lashes Hong

HONG KONG High above Tsim Sha Tsui, on the 39th floor of Mondrian Hong Kong, Carna by Dario Cecchini has spent the past several months proving that a steakhouse can still surprise its regulars. The restaurant's Rare Tour dinner series — a rotating, four-hands celebration of beef craftsmanship — sold out three times in a row, and rather than let its most talked-about discovery fade into memory, Carna is now folding it into the everyday menu, alongside a fresh run of seasonal d

HONG KONG Looking for the best vitamins and supplements in Hong Kong? From all-in-one wellness sachets to clinic-backed multivitamins and the pharmacy shelf everyone still relies on, Hong Kong offers no shortage of options — both online and in-store. Here's our guide to where to shop, from the disruptor everyone's talking about to the trusted names that have quietly done the heavy lifting all along. IM8 IM8 is the all-in-one sachet everyone in Hong Kong's wellness circles has

HONG KONG Hong Kong has no shortage of nail salons, but Nail Jolly has quietly built something a lot of newer, flashier spots haven't managed yet: genuine staying power. Founded in 2010, the salon has spent over a decade earning a loyal following across three of the city's busiest districts — and it's worth understanding exactly why it keeps landing on "best of" lists well over ten years in. A Decade-Plus of Consistency Nail Jolly was built around a simple idea: busy urban wo

HONG KONG Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 25 this year, and Hong Kong's hotels have rolled out their annual mooncake collections. Here are some highlights and where to order them. Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong The real draw is Lung King Heen's expanded lineup: alongside the Mixed Nuts Mooncakes with Candied Citrus (HK$628), the two-Michelin-starred restaurant offers Cream Custard with Toasted Pine Nuts (HK$628) and Preserved Egg and Pickled Ginger (HK$628), plus an Asso

HONG KONG Grand Hyatt Hong Kong's Plateau Spa has just brought a new Korean skincare brand to the city, and it arrived with more than enough clinical credibility to make us curious. VENN, developed over more than 25 years of dermatological research in South Korea, is now available exclusively in Hong Kong through Plateau Spa's treatment menu and retail counter — and with pigmentation, dullness, fine lines, and general dehydration all on our own list of concerns, the brand-new

HONG KONG Tai Koo doesn't get talked about the way Central or Tsim Sha Tsui do when it comes to a big night out, but EAST Hong Kong makes a genuinely strong case for crossing the harbour for it. We spent an evening working our way from sunset drinks on the 32nd floor down to a full weekend tasting menu on the ground floor — here's how it went. About EAST Hong Kong EAST is the more business-oriented of Swire Hotels' sub-brands — a kind of younger, more design-forward cousin to

HONG KONG We visited PRIVATE i SALON's Central Building location last year for a balayage refresh, and it left enough of an impression that there was never really a question of where to go when it came time for another round. This time, though, the starting point was rougher: months of growth had left my roots extremely overgrown, and the length itself had gone dry and brittle — the kind of texture that makes you nervous about adding more colour on top rather than excited abo

INTERVIEW Before she was one of the internet's most-watched food creators, Inga Lam was just a kid in Hong Kong and Taiwan, watching her grandfather wake up before dawn to hand-pick the best ingredients at the market before spending hours simmering broth and hand-wrapping dumplings from scratch. That memory has quietly shaped everything she's built since: five years producing some of BuzzFeed and Tasty's most-watched videos, a viral behind-the-scenes upload that accidentally