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ENTRÉE EVENTS

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As 2017 heralds the fifth anniversary of Hong Kong Tatler’s annual Best
Restaurants awards night, Charmaine Mok, Editorial Director of Food &
Wine, takes a star-studded walk down memory lane

here really is no other event like unforgettable and hospitable experience.
it here—a night when hundreds It was a long time coming and it wasn’t
of Hong Kong and Macau’s top until nearly a year later (in December 2013)
chefs, F&B professionals and that our little dream was realised, with
T food lovers can get together to an intimate soiree held at the then-just-
celebrate the achievements of the industry’s opened Duddell’s restaurant. With around
most talented names. Combine that with 150 hand-picked guests from the industry
stunning venues year after year, free-flow in attendance, we unveiled our Top 20
champagne and top-notch canapés, and you restaurants live, as well as our picks for
have a soirée that’s grown to become a firm awards such as Best Wine List and Best New
fixture on the dining scene. Chef, and celebrated the holiday season with
In 2012, when we set out to create an Christmas-themed cocktails.
event to properly celebrate the newly I’ve been amazed by the new heights
created Top 20 Best Restaurants list that our tiny team have been able to reach
and Best of the Year awards, it was less each year since. This year, we’ve upped the
of an excuse for us to party than it was ante even further by hosting our biggest
to give our favourite food personalities event yet at the newly minted Kerry Hotel
and champions that exact same reason in Hung Hom—in what’s currently Hong
to let loose. After all, being in the F&B Kong’s largest ballroom. Will it be tough
industry is tough—we, as the critics and to top next year? Absolutely. But you can
the journalists, have it easy—so one aim of be sure that we’ll keep on raising that bar.
our awards night is to give much-deserved In the meantime, take a look back at how
kudos to those who have worked so our awards night has evolved over the last
hard to give us, the discerning public, an half- decade.

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