New Hong Kong Openings This Week: 31 July 2026

After a quiet, Central-heavy stretch, the openings map has spread right back out across the harbour. This week's verified intake runs from straw-smoked Korean barbecue on Des Voeux Road to cart-service dim sum in Quarry Bay, takes in a Sheung Wan café-bistro, a Wan Chai noodle room and two very different Tsim Sha Tsui arrivals — a New York-style deli and a ninth-floor Nepalese bar — and finishes with a date for the diary: Osaka yakitori chain Torikizoku opens in Mong Kok on Tuesday. Here is the hit-list, with the address, the price and what to order at each.

1. Taekwang Steel — Central

Korean barbecue, minus the marinade. Taekwang Steel has landed on Des Voeux Road Central with a point of difference you can smell from the door: rather than marinating its meat, the kitchen specialises in on-the-spot straw-smoking, and the staff handle all the grilling at the table while you sit back. The smoked pork jowl (HK$198) and smoked beef short rib (HK$548) are the headline cuts, and the supporting cast plays the classics straight — an aged kimchi and pork stew (HK$98) and a volcano steamed egg (HK$98) to round out all that smoke.

The room is spacious and trendy by the standards of this stretch of Central, and the do-it-for-you grilling makes it an easier group booking than most K-BBQ. If Korean drinking culture is more your speed, LANDMARK PRINCE'S is getting YuSang, an anju-and-sool house, from mid-August.

2. Cleo's — Sheung Wan

A café that behaves like a bistro. Cleo's, on quiet Circular Pathway in Sheung Wan, is a partnership between PASSIONE — maker of some of the city's best focaccia sandwiches — and the Sai Ying Pun café Rootdown, and it shows in a menu that goes well past coffee and brunch plates. The sandwich end holds an oxtail grilled cheese (HK$98) and a tuna melt (HK$88); the bistro end runs from leek and potato soup (HK$68) to salt-cured seasonal fish (HK$238); and the snack plate (HK$128) — tinned fish, chorizo, garlic labneh, soft-boiled egg — is the sleeper hit of the menu.

With cosy table service and a French toast (HK$118) worth crossing districts for, it slots neatly into the Tai Ping Shan café crawl — a few minutes' walk from the antique shops of Upper Lascar Row.

3. Chin Teng — Wan Chai

Tai Hang's favourite noodle broth crosses the district line. Chin Teng, on Wood Road in Wan Chai, is the offshoot of the much-loved Tai Hang noodle shop Chin Jor Fan Tong, and it keeps the formula that made the original a queue magnet: Chinese noodle soups, done carefully, in a clean and comfortable room. The customisable braised beef noodle soup (HK$98) has been the hit from day one — a rich broth under a generous pile of toppings — and the short list of sides is worth a detour of its own, led by the spiced crispy bean curd with sweet and sour Thai sauce (HK$48).

4. Canto Jade — Quarry Bay

The dim sum trolley rolls east. Canto Jade has opened on the fifth floor of Cityplaza with an elegant, Song Dynasty-inspired dining room and a proper commitment to cart-service dim sum — a format most of the city's newer Cantonese rooms have quietly retired. The Eight Delights Dim Sum Birdcage (HK$238 for two) is the table-theatre order; among six signature mains, the crispy chicken with scallion oil and mushroom sauce (HK$208) and the flambéed char siu (HK$168) stand out. On the way out, the "Canto Sweet" takeaway corner does traditional Cantonese desserts, coffee and tea.

5. Schragels Delicatessen — Tsim Sha Tsui

The bagel finally crosses the harbour. Schragels, the specialist behind some of Hong Kong's best hand-rolled bagels, has opened its first Kowloon shop — and made it the largest in the family, a two-storey space on Austin Avenue with an entire floor given over to workshops and events. The core order is unchanged: a bagel and schmear at HK$60, loaded sandwiches from HK$95, all baked fresh daily. What is new is the enlarged all-day menu of Jewish and New York deli classics — matzo ball soup (HK$95), a patty melt (HK$165) and that bodega staple, the black and white cookie (HK$50).

6. Niwas — Tsim Sha Tsui

Kathmandu, nine floors above Knutsford Terrace. Niwas bills itself as possibly the city's first Nepalese speakeasy — a chilled, modern bar-restaurant hidden up on the ninth floor of Koon Fook Centre, pouring easy-drinking cocktails built on Nepalese ingredients. The kitchen is the real draw: the momos (HK$78) are among the juiciest in town, and the menu digs deeper than most local Nepalese rooms bother to — dried buffalo sukuti (HK$98), stir-fried chowmin (HK$78) and sargemba blood sausage (HK$108) for the adventurous.

7. Torikizoku — Mong Kok (opens 4 August)

One for next Tuesday's diary. Torikizoku, the Osaka yakitori chain with four decades of history behind it, opens its sixth Hong Kong branch on Tuesday 4 August 2026 at Grand Plaza in Mong Kok. The formula is the one its fans already know — juicy kizokuyaki chicken skewers finished with the slow-simmered house sauce or pure rock salt, backed by a drinks list of more than 40 choices — but the new shop debuts a few rare cuts for Hong Kong, including chicken oyster and chicken breast soft bone. Hours run midday to midnight (1am on Fridays and Saturdays), which suits Mong Kok's rhythm nicely.

Where to find more openings

This hit-list is the fast version; the deep dives live elsewhere on the site. This week we published stand-alone features on TANAKA, Central's new eight-seat wagyu omakase, Korean anju house YuSang and The Royal Garden Kowloon East, whose 47th-floor Italian rooftop Ponentino is now open. For the full month's intake, see our running list of new restaurant openings in Hong Kong, catch up on last week's openings, and browse the Hong Kong venue directory for hundreds of restaurants, bars and cafés with new arrivals added all the time.

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