Three days of dim sum and something in you starts asking for pasta. Hong Kong has been ready for that question for a long time, and it answers it at both ends of the market: a three-starred Italian dining room in Central, and a set lunch in Wan Chai that costs less than a round of drinks.
Two corrections before the list, because the old version of this page carried both. The Ritz-Carlton’s Italian restaurant sits on level 102 of the International Commerce Centre. The archive said the 118th floor, and the archive was wrong. It also no longer trades as Tosca. Three of the addresses below have moved or been renamed since we last wrote about them, so the streets here are the current ones.
8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana
Three Michelin stars, and the only Italian restaurant outside Italy holding three. Umberto Bombana has kept it there by refusing to be clever: homemade tagliolini, lobster risotto, tiramisu, done at a level that makes the simplicity look like the difficult part. The buying list runs to Aveyron lamb, Hokkaido scallops and Australian wagyu.
This is a booking made weeks out and an evening built around it. Nothing else on this page asks that much of you, and nothing else on this page gives back as much.
LUXOS Recommends: the homemade tagliolini
8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana: Shop 202, Landmark Alexandra, 18 Chater Road, Central, Tel. +852 2537 8859, ottoemezzobombana.com
Tosca di Angelo
The renamed room up there, one Michelin star, and a view that does most of the persuading before the menu arrives. Angelo Aglianò, born in Sicily, is its director, and the kitchen sends out house-made pasta and a modern rum babà among other things.
It shuts on Mondays. Lunch runs from midday and dinner from half past six. The dress code is real: shorts and open-toed shoes are refused, and gentlemen wear full-length trousers at every table.
Tosca di Angelo: Level 102, International Commerce Centre, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Tel. +852 2263 2270, toscadiangelo.com
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Estro
The one addition to this list, and the one we would send you to first. Antimo Maria Merone opened Estro in 2021 after running Bombana’s Macau kitchen, took a Michelin star and was placed 32nd on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2026. The cooking is contemporary Neapolitan. In his hands that means his own childhood rather than a region on a menu.
Estro: Level 2, 1 Duddell Street, Central, Tel. +852 9380 0161, estro.hk
Giando
Gianni Caprioli cooked privately for the Agnelli family before he opened his own room, and in 2026 the 50 Top Italy ranking put Giando 12th among Italian restaurants anywhere in the world. That is a serious placing for a small dining room in Wan Chai.
One warning. Giando is moving to Pacific Place later this year, so telephone before you walk to Star Street. Whichever address answers, order the duck and game ragù gnocchi.
LUXOS Recommends: the duck and game ragù gnocchi
Giando: Shop 1, G/F, Tower 1, Starcrest, 9 Star Street, Wan Chai, Tel. +852 2511 8912, giandorestaurant.com
Grissini
Second floor of the Grand Hyatt, looking straight at Victoria Harbour, and cooking Campania since Valerio Giuseppe Mandile arrived in June 2021 from Don Alfonso 1890, the two-starred restaurant on the coast near Naples.
The name is the tell. The kitchen bakes its own grissini and brings them out with extra-virgin olive oil and a house balsamic glaze before anything else reaches the table, and a restaurant that takes that much trouble over a breadstick is telling you something about the rest of the menu.
Grissini: 2/F, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Tel. +852 2584 7722, hongkong.grand.hyattrestaurants.com
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Angelini
Now on the mezzanine of the Kowloon Shangri-La rather than where you last found it. Sam Sin runs the kitchen and puts out a four-course tasting dinner at HK$598. Nothing else on this page feeds you as well for the money.
Have the wild New Zealand blue cod, baked whole and finished with lemon butter. It arrives entire, and it is the kind of plate that stops a table talking.
LUXOS Recommends: the baked whole wild New Zealand blue cod
Angelini: Mezzanine Level, Kowloon Shangri-La, 64 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Tel. +852 2733 8750, shangri-la.com
DiVino Patio
Moved from Star Street to Harbour Road, and still the answer when you want Italian food without an occasion attached. The pasta is made by hand and the power lunch runs from HK$178 to HK$198 for a starter, a pasta or a pizza, and coffee.
Order the pappardelle with Tuscan wild boar ragout. It is the dish the kitchen has built its name on, and reason enough to come at dinner instead.
DiVino Patio: Shop 11, 1/F, BRIM28, 28 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Tel. +852 2877 3552, divinogroup.com
One last piece of advice. Hong Kong restaurants move floors and buildings faster than almost anywhere, and three of the addresses on this page have changed since the last version of it. Telephone the day you plan to go. It takes a minute and it will save you a taxi across the harbour to a shuttered door.