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Starting with a mouthwatering appetiser to the delicious main course and ending it with a sweet dessert, brunch is usually not just a meal but an entire experience. And if you’re in the mood for some culinary indulgences, we, at Gafencu, have put together a list of restaurants that are offering some of the best brunch menus with a plethora of culinary traditions to pick from.&nbsp;&nbsp;
<h2>aqua</h2>
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Bringing the best dishes from the Italian and Japanese cuisine to your table is modern restaurant aqua‘s Because Gold Room Brunch. With the restaurant’s Roma kitchen choices like the Antipasto Italiano to the delicacies like Hamachi and Kampachi from its Tokyo kitchen, you are in for a treat. Along with the meal, a free flow of Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label&nbsp;Champagne option is also available for you to sip while enjoying the fine-dining establishment’s stunning vistas across Victoria Harbour. For discerning diners with a confirmed sweet tooth, the new Gold Room experience, situated in a separate room where you enter by showing a golden card, is the main reason you should not miss the brunch at aqua. Be it the macaroon tree or the chocolate fountain, the dessert room looks and feels like a fairy tale. Moreover, the restaurant is also offering a special limited-edition dessert ‒ Gold Ingot Tiramisu on January for the <a href="//www.gafencushop.com/chinese-new-year-gifts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese New Year</a>. This new brunch menu is available from 12:00pm to 3:00pm on weekends and public holidays until January 31, 2020. <a href="http://www.aqua.com.hk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.aqua.com.hk</a>
Location: aqua, 29 + 30F, One Peking, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Price: HK$688 per person + 10% service charge. Champagne free-flow packages from HK$588 per person.&nbsp;
<h2>Lobster Bar and Grill</h2>
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Popular for its contemporary European cuisine, the Island Shangri-La’s high-end restaurant Lobster Bar and Grill serves an extravagant weekend brunch menu ‒ Lobster Boil that brings the taste of New Orleans to your plate. Meant to be eaten in the traditional way ‒ diving in with your fingers first ‒&nbsp; the dishes are served straight from the cooking pot on the table. Moreover, tipplers can also enjoy the Bloody Mary crafting session, along with live music by a Cajun band. With unlimited flow of dishes like whole Boston Lobster, Short Neck Clams, Blue Mussels, Razor Clams, this brunch is an entertaining meal, to say the least. Available from 12:00pm to 2:30pm on every Sunday, the brunch comes with free-flow of selected Veuve Clicquot Champagne, Young Master Beer, Bloody Mary cocktail and juices. Click <a href="http://www.shangri-la.com/hongkong/islandshangrila/dining/restaurants/lobster-bar-grill/book-a-table/">here</a> or contact via email (<a href="mailto:lbandgrill.isl@shangri-la.com">lbandgrill.isl@shangri-la.com</a>) or phone (+852 2820 8560) to make your reservation.&nbsp;
Location: Level 6, Island Shangri-la, Pacific Place, Supreme Court Road, Central, Hong Kong
Price: HK$898 per person + 10% service charge
<h2>Statement</h2>
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An experience that combines the art of tableside carving with soul-satisfyingly meaty meal is the Britannia Brunch by the British restaurant Statement. From the Tai Kwun-set culinary outpost’s signature dishes like Roast British beef with Yorkshire pudding to the vegetarian favourites like the Impossible™ beef, spinach &amp; mushroom Wellington with chimichurri, the menu is filled with mouthwatering choices. Besides the Salt-baked fish of the day which can be shared among two to four people for an additional charge of HK$228 is an absolute delight for seafood lovers. For desserts there are various pudding options including the British sticky toffee pudding and more. Available from 12:00pm to 3:00pm on weekends and public holidays, Britannia brunch comes with a free-flow of Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne, wine and choice of cocktails. <a href="http://www.statement.com.hk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.statement.com.hk</a>
Location: Statement, Police Headquarters, Block 01, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
Price: HK$628 per person&nbsp;
<h2>Tapas Bar</h2>
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Known for its classic dishes that are enjoyed best when eaten shared, Tapas Bar serves the Tapas Brunch that comes with a range of Spanish treats. The menu includes the restaurant’s exclusive dishes like the tuna and watermelon ceviche, the traditional Spanish tortilla and more. Along with the dishes, the wine bar is obviously serving a free-flow of alcoholic drinks. Served from 1:00pm to 4:00pm on Sundays, this brunch takes place in an al fresco setting.
Location: 64 Mody Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Price: HK$590 + 10% service charge per person
<h2>Honjo</h2>
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Known for its simple recipes that allow the flavours of the ingredients to stand out, the Japanese restaurant Honjo is offering a new brunch menu. Featuring a variety of sashimi, sushi, maki and oyster dishes created by Executive Chef Miguel Huelamo, the menu is sure to be a heavenly treat for all the pescatarians out there. The brunch also includes some Japanese starters and main dishes like Baked Chicken with buttered mushrooms. Moreover, this family-friendly meal also includes a dessert station in the end. Available from 12:00pm to 2:30pm on weekends and public holidays, the brunch is accompanied by a free-flow of alcoholic drinks including sake, wines and cocktails.&nbsp;<a href="https://honjo.hk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.honjo.hk</a>
Location: 1/F, Hollywood Centre, 77-91 Queen’s Road West, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Price: HK$468 per adult + HK$198 for free-flow alcohol and HK$98 per child
<h2>Chaiwala</h2>
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If you love the rich taste of Indian delicacies, Chaiwala’s The Holi Brunch menu is right up your radar. The newly updated menu includes street food favourites like Bhel Puri, Papdi and Aloo Chana. Following it for the main course, there’s an enticing array of dosas, biryanis and tikkas&nbsp; from which you can choose one. With curries being a very important part of the Indian cuisine, the restaurant offers great options including Kerala Fish Curry, Saag Paneer, Old Delhi Butter Chicken and more. Along with all these dishes, there is a free-flow of alcohol and the sweet yoghurt drink Lassi in three flavours ‒ classic, mango and banana. This family-friendly brunch is available from 12:00pm to 2:30pm on weekends and public holidays. <a href="https://www.chaiwala.hk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.chaiwala.hk</a>
Location: No. 43-55, Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong
Price: HK$298 per person + HK$180 for free-flow alcohol package + HK$120 for Lassi
<h2>Temakeria (TMK)</h2>
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Unlike most restaurants, Temakeria, one of Hong Kong’s favourite punk-themed eateries, offers two brunch menu options ‒ Light and Ravenous – so you can choose whatever whets your appetite. While the Light menu will suit the tastes of anyone who wants a light repast paired with delicious drinks, the Ravenous one will be loved by those who have suitably prepared to feast their hearts out. The selected food for these brunch menus include Karaage, Edamame, Wagyu Tataki and more. Moreover, there is an amazing list of hand roll choices, all mouthwatering, the only dilemma will be having to choose. Similar to the other Pirata Group restaurants ‒ Honjo and Chaiwala, TMK also serves the brunch menus from 12:00pm to 2:30pm on weekends and public holidays. <a href="http://www.tmk.hk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tmk.hk</a>
Location: Shops G &amp; H, G/F and M/F, Hollywood Centre, 77-91 Queen’s Road West, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Price: HK$198 per person for the Light menu and HK$288 per person for the Ravenous menu

Restaurants serving the best brunch menus in 2020

While other European countries like France and Italy have long been considered as the mecca of fine-dining, England has traditionally been relegated to a much-lower rank when it comes to Michelin-star-quality gourmandry. But if your knowledge of British food is limited to ordering bangers and mash, and fish and chips, then perhaps it&#8217;s time you headed to the Old Police Headquarters at Tai Kwun where Aqua Group&#8217;s British restaurant Statement has successfully given good ol&#8217; English cuisine a modern makeover.
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Particularly indulgent in this regard is their four-course Britannia brunch menu that is only offered on the weekends. First up is an array of artisanal charcuterie with sourdough bread and a jar of pickles and a sumptuous seafood platter that boasts everything from fresh Irish oysters and Norwegian smoked salmon to Cornish prawns, and mussels and clams. We particularly loved the juicy, tender prawns that were lightly poached to enhance their flavours further.
Moving on to the mains, the classic roast British beef is the obvious highlight of the menu, with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and vegetables all providing suitable accompaniments. Make sure to keep your cameras ready while the beef is being hand-carved in front of you on a vintage silver trolley. Prepared in a traditional fashion, the succulent pieces of the beef pair perfectly well with the crunchiness of the Yorkshire pudding. Our only grouch was that the portions were perhaps a tad on the frugal side.
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However, if beef&#8217;s not your thing, Statement also offers a selection of other main courses such as roasted corn-fed pork shoulder with mustard and paprika, or roasted cauliflower with capers and raisins, or its own take of beer-battered fish and chips.
The last dish of the four-course brunch is obviously the dessert, with such classics as sticky toffee pudding, sea-salt butterscotch ice cream and chocolate orange mousse bringing back memories of childhood. Of course, all this is accompanied by free-flowing drinks, so be it Veuve Clicquot champagne or classic cocktails like Bloody Mary, take your pick of poison and settle down for a relaxing, indulgent experience, because, after all, what else are weekends meant for?
Statement 
Police Headquarters, Block 01, Tai Kwun 
10 Hollywood Road, Central 
Weekend brunch: 11.30am to 3pm, $628 p.p. 
<a href="https://www.statement.com.hk/">www.statement.com.hk</a>
Text: Suchetana Mukhopadhyay

Gear up for a relaxing weekend with the Britannia brunch at Statement

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Italy has gifted the world’s gourmands with seemingly never-ending pizza and pasta variations, while France has divvied a fine selection of cheese and jambons. Even Germany, meanwhile, has several sumptuous(ish) schnitzels and wursts to its name. What, though, of Great Britain? What can this sceptred isle claim by way of tummy treats for the internationally peckish? 
If you’re thinking bangers and mash, boiled cabbage or pork pies, you’re not far off the mark when it comes to UKatering, though none of these are likely to get the Men from Michelin ordering seconds. Or, for the most part, firsts.
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The widely-held view of England’s lack of eminence in the edibility stakes may just be about to change, however, with one new Central-set cuisinery – <a href="https://statement.com.hk/">Statement</a> – determined to bring a bite-to-eat Blighty-style bang-up-to-date as the Year of the Boar shuffles, trotters to the fore, into view. Set on the top floor of the wholly-renovated, heritage Tai Kwun building – once home to the former Central Police Station – and owned and operated by the always-sampleable Aqua Restaurant Group, it’s on a mission to see hungry Hongkongers soon noshing down on London-style lunches and supper a-la-Salisbury-style.
Upon stepping into Statement’s decorously-appointed dining area, it is immediately apparent that Aqua is keen to dispel any notion that that it has invested its hard-earned money in an upmarket fish-and-chippery. From its coolly elegant dark interiors to its plush tropical verandahs (overlooking either the fleshpots of Hollywood Road or the Tai Kwun Compound) nary the merest hint of battered haddock is to be had. Indeed, all thoughts of stodgy servings vanish as the first plate hoves into view.
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Our particular tasting began in fine form with the first of the starters being no less than Heirloom beetroot parcels with aubergine, red pepper, kaffir lime yoghurt, with not the faintest whiff of a pea, mushy or otherwise. If anything, a tad reminiscent of a rich ravioli, these pure purple bites enveloped a delicately-balanced red pepper-eggplant concoction, perfectly contrasting with the tart yoghurt and a generous sprinkle of pistachio nut crumble. Belying its arresting hues, the flavours were the last word in sophisticated subtlety. 
Next up was Pan-fried Hokkaido scallops, smoked cabbage heart with Welsh laverbread butter. Here, the oft-derided cabbage took star billing as a perfect smoky foil for the exquisitely cooked, succulent scallops. The creamy, umami-packed laver sauce – a seaweed derivative, who knew? – then added just the right oceanic note, tying the whole dish together superbly.
<figure id="attachment_41211" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-41211" style="width: 700px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-41211" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pan-fried-Hokkaido-scallops-smoked-cabbage-heart-with-Welsh-laverbread-butter.jpg" alt="Pan-fried Hokkaido scallops, smoked cabbage heart with Welsh laverbread butter" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pan-fried-Hokkaido-scallops-smoked-cabbage-heart-with-Welsh-laverbread-butter.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pan-fried-Hokkaido-scallops-smoked-cabbage-heart-with-Welsh-laverbread-butter-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pan-fried-Hokkaido-scallops-smoked-cabbage-heart-with-Welsh-laverbread-butter-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pan-fried-Hokkaido-scallops-smoked-cabbage-heart-with-Welsh-laverbread-butter-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pan-fried-Hokkaido-scallops-smoked-cabbage-heart-with-Welsh-laverbread-butter-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pan-fried-Hokkaido-scallops-smoked-cabbage-heart-with-Welsh-laverbread-butter-400x266.jpg 400w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pan-fried-Hokkaido-scallops-smoked-cabbage-heart-with-Welsh-laverbread-butter-600x399.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-41211" class="wp-caption-text">Pan-fried Hokkaido scallops, smoked cabbage heart with Welsh laverbread butter</figcaption></figure>
Barely was the last scallop swallowed, when main course numero uno – Slow-cooked 24-hour marinated braised British oxtail – arrived, with the wait staff rightly billing it as a nicely novel alternative to the more standard steak fare. No disagreement on our part, with the melt-in-your-mouth texture of the shredded oxtail – paired with the tart tomato compote and smooth potato puree – a fitting treat for even the most discerning meat-minded diner.
That, though, proved just the warm-up act for main course number two – Slow-cooked Grassingham duck with plum sauce and salt-baked carrot. Perhaps oddly for a Great British game dish, it called to mind Peking Duck, with the well-prepared duck breast pairing perfectly with the piquancy of the plum sauce.
<figure id="attachment_41200" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-41200" style="width: 477px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-41200" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cranberry-poached-pear-buttermilk-caramel-mousse-and-Scottish-shortbread.jpg" alt="Statement" width="477" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cranberry-poached-pear-buttermilk-caramel-mousse-and-Scottish-shortbread.jpg 477w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cranberry-poached-pear-buttermilk-caramel-mousse-and-Scottish-shortbread-200x294.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cranberry-poached-pear-buttermilk-caramel-mousse-and-Scottish-shortbread-191x280.jpg 191w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cranberry-poached-pear-buttermilk-caramel-mousse-and-Scottish-shortbread-120x176.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cranberry-poached-pear-buttermilk-caramel-mousse-and-Scottish-shortbread-400x587.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-41200" class="wp-caption-text">Cranberry poached pear, buttermilk caramel mousse and Scottish shortbread</figcaption></figure>
Full to the point of belt-buckle unbuckling, the prospect of a perfidious Albion afters remained irresistible and the Cranberry poached pear, buttermilk caramel mousse and Scottish shortbread combo didn’t disappoint. In particular, the refreshing tanginess of the bite-sized pear morsels proved the perfect counterpoint to our hearty repast. Add in the crunch of the secret-recipe shortbread and the tantalisingly sweet caramel mousse and it was a finely finessed finale to an unexpectedly haute cuisine experience.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-41201" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interior-–-Dining-room-with-floor-to-ceiling-windows-and-dark-teal-hues.jpg" alt="Statement" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interior-–-Dining-room-with-floor-to-ceiling-windows-and-dark-teal-hues.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interior-–-Dining-room-with-floor-to-ceiling-windows-and-dark-teal-hues-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interior-–-Dining-room-with-floor-to-ceiling-windows-and-dark-teal-hues-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interior-–-Dining-room-with-floor-to-ceiling-windows-and-dark-teal-hues-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interior-–-Dining-room-with-floor-to-ceiling-windows-and-dark-teal-hues-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interior-–-Dining-room-with-floor-to-ceiling-windows-and-dark-teal-hues-400x266.jpg 400w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interior-–-Dining-room-with-floor-to-ceiling-windows-and-dark-teal-hues-600x399.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" />
From smoked cabbage hearts and braised oxtail to juicy duck breasts and poached pears, the establishment’s unambiguous ability to take ordinary British ingredients and transform them into a truly high-end culinary experience not only allows it to set a new benchmark in British gourmandry, it allows it to make a truly memorable Statement.
Text: Tenzing Thondup &nbsp; &nbsp;

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