7 New restaurants to try in Hong Kong this July

Aroma Wine Bistro provides a relaxed dining experience above the busy streets of Causeway Bay. Aroma’s interior design draws inspiration from Nordic style, which can be seen from their natural wood furnishings and greenery scattered throughout the venue and al fresco balcony. Here, diners can enjoy dishes like handmade agnolotti pasta topped with crab meat and creamy burrata, fried chicken with jura yellow vin jaune sauce, mille-feuille potatoes with Wagyu beef tartare and bottarga roe, and more.

As their name suggests, Aroma Wine Bistro offers a curated wine collection of over 200 labels. While Aroma’s diners can enjoy tipples by the glass, the restaurant also has a wine flight which consists of three selections that change bi-weekly, allowing guests to experience rare and exceptional wines from across the world.

American gourmet sandwich chain Eggslut has officially opened its doors in Hong Kong! Hongkongers can dig into Eggslut’s signature egg sandwiches, which take sumptuous ingredients like applewood smoked bacon, homemade chicken sausage, seared USDA prime grade tri-tip steak, as well as ground Angus beef patties, and place them between soft, fluffy brioche buns. Most importantly, all of Eggslut’s sandwiches include either a portion of fluffy scrambled eggs, hard-cooked eggs, or a perfect over-medium egg with a jammy centre.

Hokkaido's award-winning soup curry restaurant Suage has opened its first branch in Langham Place. Currently, they offer 10 soup curry bowls with toppings like crispy whole chicken leg, Hiroshima oysters, braised pork belly, as well as lobster with assorted seafood, which is only available in Hong Kong. Aside from their original recipe, Suage also welcomes diners to customise their curries by choosing their desired carbs, such as rice or noodles; soup base, and spice level.

1st & Beaudry in Wong Chuk Hang offers diners an authentic recreation of Los Angeles’ atmosphere and food scene, which is full of culinary influences from around the world. Highlights on 1st & Beaudry’s menu include M.B Chowdah, a creamy clam chowder served in a house-made sourdough bread bowl; Sunset Boulevard, a vibrant salad with avocado, zucchini, beet carpaccio, and more; as well as innovative tacos stuffed with fillings like charred pork neck, tempura-battered eggplant, or ancho chilli-spiced bluefin tuna.

Aera, meaning honour and era in Danish, is a contemporary New Nordic restaurant in Wan Chai. Inspired by the philosophies of Nordic cuisine, Aera’s team uses culinary techniques such as pickling, smoking, air-drying, and fermenting to elevate local ingredients. Diners can savour Aera’s Nordic-influenced dishes in a 10-course dinner tasting menu, which consists of dishes like local three-yellow chicken feet flavoured with malt and lemon; rice combined with Japanese red shiso vinegar and topped with sea urchin; A3 Japanese Wagyu sirloin paired with Australian winter truffles, and more.

Keen on Korean food? Cafe Joo in New Town Plaza offers a contemporary take on Korean cuisine, while also serving up new and inventive Korean-inspired dishes made with premium ingredients. Local yellow hair chicken is prepared with Italian culinary techniques to create Korean fried chicken, which results in a thin skin that’s delightfully crisp. For those who like fiery flavours, Cafe Joo takes Cheongyang chillies and stuffs them with cheese sausages, before lightly coating them in batter and frying them to crispy perfection. As for entrees, options include slow-cooked Angus beef short rib ‘galbi’, or Jeju octopus stir-fried in Korean soy sauce and served with spaghetti in a squid ink sauce. Additionally, Cafe Joo also has a range of indulgent desserts such as nutella and banana baked croffles with milk ice cream, or chocolate and caramel banana parfait layered with homemade brownies.

Curry Kingdom at Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza is a one-stop destination for authentic Asian curry dishes. This restaurant has teamed up with Singaporean sauce brand Amocan to bring diners a variety of curries from Thailand, Singapore, India, and Japan. From mild Japanese curry served with pork cutlet rice to fragrant Thai green curry noodles with duck breast, Curry Kindgom’s offerings will transport your taste buds to different destinations across the continent. Aside from curry, the pan-Asian restaurant also has a variety of sweet and savoury snacks for diners to enjoy, like acar pickled pineapples, vegetarian meat and papadum, as well as homemade caramel popcorn and red bean mille-feuille.