Illustration: Yum Cha Now, AI-generated. It sets the scene and is not a photograph of the venue.
Every autumn, the Central Harbourfront turns into Hong Kong's biggest open-air tasting room. The Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival runs for four days, from Thursday 29 October to Sunday 1 November 2026, and for 2026 it has spread beyond the Central Harbourfront Event Space into Tamar Park as well. All four days now have published opening hours, and online pass prices came down rather than up.
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What is the Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival?
The Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival is the city's largest annual food-and-wine event, staged every autumn by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) on the open-air Central Harbourfront Event Space. Expect wall-to-wall tasting booths pouring everything from classic Bordeaux and Burgundy to Baijiu, whisky, sake, gin and craft beer, alongside food stalls dishing out everything from Hong Kong street snacks to Michelin-recognised bites.
The format is simple: buy an admission ticket or a Tasting Pass loaded with tokens, then wander the harbourfront trading tokens for samples at whichever booths catch your eye. Live entertainment runs across the festival, with the Hong Kong skyline as a backdrop.
When is it in 2026?
The 2026 festival runs for four days, from Thursday 29 October to Sunday 1 November, staged by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. It lands in the same stretch as the city's citywide Halloween events, and Hong Kong Gourmet Month picks up the baton from 1 to 30 November 2026.
All four days now have confirmed hours, and they are not the same, which is the detail most listings flatten:
- Thursday 29 October: 7:30pm to midnight. An evening-only opening of four and a half hours.
- Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October: 1pm to 1am. The two long days, at twelve hours each.
- Sunday 1 November: 1pm to midnight.
That makes Thursday the worst value for a pass holder with sixteen tokens to spend and the best choice for anyone who only wants an hour after work, and it makes Friday and Saturday the two days where a Grand Wine Pass has time to pay for itself. Dates, hours and all prices on this page were checked against the Hong Kong Tourism Board's festival page and its ticketing page, 12 October 2026.
What's new at the 2026 festival?
The headline addition for 2026 is “Only in Hong Kong” Flavours, a new festival section built entirely around the city's own dining scene. It gathers signature dishes from more than 100 restaurants — including Michelin-starred kitchens, luxury hotel dining rooms and long-running local favourites — giving visitors a single-stop tasting tour of what makes Hong Kong's food culture distinct, rather than just its imported wine list.
The festival's usual pillars remain in place too: hundreds of international wine and spirits booths, live entertainment through the evenings, and exclusive tasting and food-and-wine pairing experiences at select booths. Once the festival wraps on 1 November, it rolls straight into Hong Kong Gourmet Month, 1 to 30 November 2026, a citywide month of restaurant and bar promotions. The part worth planning around: HKTB says Wine & Dine Festival ticket stubs unlock offers at selected restaurants and retailers during Gourmet Month, so a HK$40 admission bought on the festival's last day keeps working for the following four weeks. The outlet list and redemption details had not been published when we checked. If you'd rather explore Hong Kong's food scene without the wine, our guide to Food Expo Hong Kong covers the city's other big culinary showcase, and our Hong Kong street food guide is a good primer before you go.
How much are tickets and tasting passes?
Admission alone costs HK$40 per person, with half-price concessions for seniors aged 65 and over, full-time students, children aged 3 to 12 and people with disabilities; children under three go free. Most visitors, though, buy a Tasting Pass, which bundles admission with tokens for food and wine samples at the booths.
- Tasting Pass: HK$258 online (list price HK$298), covering 1 admission ticket, 8 tasting tokens and 1 standard wine glass.
- Grand Wine Pass: HK$558 online (list price HK$598), or HK$508 for eligible American Express cardmembers, covering 1 admission ticket, 16 tasting tokens, a Grand Wine Glass, Grand Wine Pavilion access and a HK$200 eCoupon.
- Top-up tokens: HK$25 each, or HK$20 for eligible American Express cardmembers. Pass holders only.
- Standard wine glass on site: HK$60 on its own, against a list price of HK$160.
American Express priority booking ran from 7 to 11 October. General booking opened on 12 October, through Trip.com, and the online prices waive the admission fee that an on-site buyer pays. Passes are first come, first served while stocks last.
Which pass actually pays off is a short sum. The Grand Wine Pass costs HK$300 more than the Tasting Pass and gives you eight extra tokens, a better glass, pavilion access and a HK$200 eCoupon. Eight tokens bought as top-ups would cost HK$200, so the upgrade only makes sense if you will genuinely drink through all sixteen tokens and use the eCoupon. Most people pacing themselves over three or four hours do not get through sixteen. On the Thursday evening session, with four and a half hours on the clock, almost nobody does.
And the cheapest way in is the one the ticketing page buries: HK$40 on-site admission, or HK$20 concession for seniors aged 65 and over, children aged 3 to 12, full-time students and people with disabilities. If you are meeting friends who already hold passes, or you are there for the harbour and the live music rather than the wine, you do not need a pass at all. Tokens can be bought on the day only by pass holders, so an admission-only visitor is going for the atmosphere, not the tasting.
Venue, address and how to get there
Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival
The Central Harbourfront Event Space is an open-air site facing Victoria Harbour that also hosts Art Central each spring. There is no on-site parking, so the MTR is the easiest way in. Because the site now stretches to Tamar Park, the Admiralty entrance is the shorter walk for most people arriving by train, and the Central entrance next to Pier No. 10 is the one to use if you are coming through the IFC walkways. See the Hong Kong Tourism Board's official listing for the confirmed daily timetable closer to the date.
If the festival whets your appetite for more, our guides to Hong Kong's best wine bars and best cocktail bars keep the tasting going long after the tents come down.
Frequently Asked Questions
Save the dates
The Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival runs 29 October–1 November 2026 at the Central Harbourfront. Online Tasting Passes are cheaper than buying on-site — book ahead of 22 October to lock in the discount.