Private Kitchens

Le Blanc

Submitted by root on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 12:09

term:

Private Kitchens

A small, intimate French private kitchen where each table is hemmed with light fabric curtains creating a romantic private tent. Like all private kitchens, you can bring your own alcohol. No corkage fee.

address:

6/F, 83 Wanchai Rd., Wan Chai

openinghours:

Open Mon-Sat 7pm-midnight

phone:

3428 5824

Magnolia

Submitted by root on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 12:09

url:

www.magnolia.hk

term:

Private Kitchens

Remember the award-winning Cajun and creole cuisine at The Bayou Restaurant? Well, chef Lori Granito is still serving up excellent Deep South food at her own private kitchen. The main dining room is set up dinner-party style as one long table where everyone sits together, although parties of 10 or more get their own room. Feast on barbecue ribs, jambalaya, crispy soft-shelled crabs, dirty rice, and the best pecan pie ever. Bring your own wine.

address:

G/F, 17 Po Yan St., Sheung Wan

phone:

2530 3880

Sichuan Da Ping Huo

Submitted by root on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 12:09

term:

Private Kitchens

A husband-and-wife team serves up a Sichuan menu so spicy that you experience it twice: once at the table and once later. It's an industrial-chic dining room, brightened by paintings by owner Wang Hai. It has two sittings a night (7pm and 9pm) for his chef-wife's prix-fixe menus of eight to 12 down-home Sichuan dishes ranging in spiciness from cool to death-by-chili (douse the fire with steamed rice). But the best part of the evening is when chef Wong Xiaoqiong, a classically trained soprano, emerges at the end of the meal to sing a beautiful Chinese aria to her guests.

address:

LG/F Hilltop Plaza, 49 Hollywood Rd., Central

phone:

2559 1317

Xi Yan Culinary Art

Submitted by root on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 12:09

term:

Private Kitchens

There's a three-month waiting list, one sitting a night, and a minimum of eight diners a booking. Xi Yan is run by adman-turned-chef Jacky Yu, who turned his passion into a career, converting his ad agency into a private kitchen and himself into a local celebrity with a TV show and cookbooks to his name. It's a comfortably minimalist space with just six round dining tables, but the food is now legendary. Each meal is a 12-course exploration of Asian cuisine, a seamless meld of Thai, Chinese (Cantonese, Sichuan and other cuisines), Japanese and other regional dishes.

address:

3/F, 231-233 Queen's Rd. East, Wan Chai

phone:

9020 9196

Yellow Door Kitchen

Submitted by root on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 12:09

term:

Private Kitchens

Hong Kong's first private kitchen has shifted to a new and decidedly more stylish dining room. The food is still exceptional and authentically, mouth-numbingly spicy - cooked by a Mr. Lau, who really knows his stuff. The set dinner includes six starters and eight main courses.

address:

6/F, 37 Cochrane St., Central

phone:

2858 6555