Brunch has always been the ultimate weekend treat, and Hong Kong has lots to offer in terms of great food and bargains on alcohol. Here is our list of the top brunch spots in Hong Kong right now, whether your favorite brunch fare is eggs benedict or you prefer fresh seafood, steak, dim sum, and everything in between.
Hong Kong best brunches to enjoy right now
Buenos Aires Polo Club
Join your friends for the monthly brunch event at the Buenos Aires Polo Club and indulge to the hilt. The Polo Brunch offers a staggering selection of traditional Argentine dishes, starting with light appetizers like traditional empanadas and rich provoleta cheese. Wander over to the cold seafood bar and indulge in house-cured smoked salmon, crab legs, oysters, and lobsters. Customize an omelette to your specifications. Indulge in hearty portions of succulent black Angus ribeye served with homemade gravy. Don't forget to order some duck fat fries for an added touch of decadence. To complete your amazing meal, the Polo Brunch offers a variety of desserts if you have any leftover space. Savor two hours of specially crafted cocktails and wines chosen by sommeliers, including the breakfast martini from Buenos Aires Polo Club, to round out your brunch experience.
When: Every month on the first Saturday
Cost: $988, plus $288 for Ayala Brut Majeur NV Champagne free-flow, plus $168 for free-flow, plus $228 for an extra hour of free-flow Champagne Ayala Brut Majeur NV
Pirata Organization
Pirata Group is offering free flowing drinks as part of their celebration for finishing Dry January at Tokyolima, Chaiwala, The Optimist, Pirata, TMK Punk & Rolls, and TMK Rap & Rolls brunch menus in February. Each participating restaurant will serve up signature crowd-pleasers from their menus, such as pork and beef meatballs from Pirata, octopus croquetas from The Optimist, or Bombay fried chicken at Chaiwala, in addition to plenty of libations to quench guests' thirsts and appetites.
When: Every weekend in February
Price per person: $248 for TMK Rap & Rolls and TMK Punk & Rolls; $368 for Pirata; $368 for Chaiwala; $388 for The Optimist; and $398 for Tokyolima
Hutong
Hutong "Non-stop" Feng Wei brunch will keep the food coming. It features an endless array of dimsum, main courses like mapo tofu and kung po chilli prawns, and aromatic Peking duck and crispy soft-shell crab with dried Sichuan chilli. A two and a half hour long free-flow is also included in the Feng Wei brunch package. It comprises Tsing Tao beer, sake, osmanthus sweet wine, sommelier-selected red and white wine, and Hutong's unique Canton Ginger cocktail, which is made with Tanqueray gin and Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur. As they progress through the brunch, patrons can take advantage of a variety of live entertainment options, including face-changing acts, Chinese dancing, and a station serving traditional coconut candy wraps.
When: 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays; 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. nonstop brunch
Price: $698 for the meal only; an additional $200 for standard three-hour free-flow drinks plus Saint-Louis Blanc de Blancs Brut, N.V.; an additional $350 for premium free-flow drinks plus Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label NV Champagne; an additional $600 for free-flow drinks plus Ruinart Blanc de Blancs Champagne; an additional $1,500 for free-flow drinks plus Dom Pérignon Champagne
House of Food & Music is the melody.
Large, robust flavors abound on Melody's weekend brunch menu, which also features food cooked on their Josper grill. Start the meal by passing around a variety of table appetizers, such as Melody's homemade sausages, burnt aubergine escabeche with pickles, tuna tartare with lemongrass dressing, and shaved fennel. Then, guests can select their preferred entrée from a selection that includes dishes like tender suckling pig parts served with buttery mashed potatoes, truffle mushroom lasagne paired with cauliflower cream, a thick ribeye steak accompanied by koffman fries and bearnaise sauce, and more. For those who want a more classic Sunday dinner, there's the Sunday roast, which comes with roast beef rib, Yorkshire puddings, carrots, duck fat roast potatoes, and lots and lots of gravy. Delightful sweets like passion fruit pavlova or sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream, along with Melody's cheese platter if you have any leftover space, are the perfect way to cap off your weekend's meal. During the brunch, attendees can enjoy unlimited mocktails, Champagne, draught beers, spirits, and red and white wines chosen by the sommelier for two and a half hours.
When: On Saturdays and Sundays and on federal holidays
The cost is $788 per person with free-flowing mocktails or $988 with free-flowing Champagne, wines, spirits, and draught beer.
Club Jiangsu
Jiangsu Club's weekend semi-buffet brunch menu invites you to indulge in an endless array of Chinese delicacies. A variety of hot and cold appetizers, including tongue-tingling spicy cucumbers and Jinhua ham scallion pancakes, are available for customers to start. Next, they can indulge in traditional dim sum dishes like pan-fried pork dumplings, shrimp dumplings, and wonton in garlic chili soy sauce. Make sure to order the speciality dishes of Jiangsu Club, which include fried dumplings filled with diced abalone, hairy crab roe xiao long bao, chilled abalone with Hangzhou chillies, and siu mai topped with caviare. Desserts such as osmanthus coconut red bean pudding, deep-fried glutinous rice dumplings in a dragon fruit sauce, and drunken glutinous rice dumplings round out the semi-buffet brunch menu. Portions are unlimited.
When: 11.30 am to 3 pm on Saturdays and Sundays, and on public holidays.
Cost: $398 per person and up, plus an additional $388 for free-flow Imperial Champagne by Moët & Chandon, +$458 for flow-through For free-flowing, Moët & Chandon Rosé Imperial costs +$888. Champagne vintage Dom Pérignon
Ichu
Go to Central to savor the flavors of Nikkei cuisine at Ichu's Fiesta Brunch. Fill up on beverages with a four-hour free-flow package and groove to the sounds of live DJs spinning tunes. Appetisers such as salmon tiradito, mixto ceviche with octopus and Hokkaido scallops, and tacos de carne with slow-cooked Peruvian beef and rocoto pepper emulsion are served first on the brunch menu. Ichu serves four main courses on a sizable sharing platter: grilled octopus in yakiniku sauce, grilled tiger prawns in mojo criollo sauce, baby chicken marinated in Panca chilli sauce, and Argentinean tenderloin with chimichurri sauce. Lastly, a variety of desserts are served to guests to sweetly conclude Ichu's wild brunch celebration.
When: Saturdays from 12 to 4 p.m.
From $599 per person, a wine and spirits package costs $999, a Champagne package costs $1,098; a premium Champagne package costs $1,298.