The Tiffany Blue Box Café Opens at Lee Gardens, Causeway Bay

That particular shade of robin's-egg blue has sold engagement rings for nearly two centuries. Now it pours a flat white. The Tiffany Blue Box Café — the dining concept that turns the world's most famous gift box into a room you can sit inside — arrives in Causeway Bay this June, on the first floor of Tiffany & Co.'s brand-new Lee Garden Three flagship.

It is a small but genuinely buzzy opening, and not only because of the Instagram-bait colour scheme. The kitchen is led by Agustin Balbi, the chef behind one of Hong Kong's most quietly admired Michelin-starred restaurants, and this is the first time the Blue Box Café has crossed the harbour to Hong Kong Island. Here is everything we know so far, and how to get a table.

When Does the Tiffany Blue Box Café Open?

The café opens from mid-June 2026, the finishing touch on Tiffany & Co.'s new Hong Kong flagship at Lee Garden Three (利園三期), 1 Sunning Road, Causeway Bay (銅鑼灣). Local listings point to a first service on Saturday 13 June, though the brand's own wording has stayed at "mid-June," so treat the exact date as one to confirm when you book.

The store itself has already opened. It spreads across two floors: a 414-square-metre ground floor of diamond jewellery and signature collections — HardWear, Lock, Knot and T by Tiffany — and a 359-square-metre first floor that pairs a watch salon and a Home & Accessories area with the new café. In other words, the Blue Box Café is the last piece of the flagship to come online, and the one most people without a jewellery budget will actually visit.

Inside the Café: Tiffany Blue, by Design

Cleverly, the café does not slap the famous box on every surface. Instead the designers treat Tiffany Blue as a spatial language — layered tones of blue washing across walls, banquettes and stretches of the ceiling, cut through with slim metal trims and warm, low lighting. Light-framed tables and a few mirrored, high-gloss details keep the room feeling airy rather than themed.

The space is arranged as a sequence. You enter through a zone with bar elements, move into the main dining floor, then taper into more sheltered booth seating towards the back, where the sound softens and the light drops. Anchoring one wall is a geometric installation by American artist Molly Hatch that nods to the graphic structure of Tiffany's packaging. There is also a private dining room seating up to ten — useful to know for a milestone birthday or a hen lunch.

It is worth lingering downstairs, too: the flagship's street-facing windows were created with artist Mariko Kusumoto, drawing on a historic bamboo print once collected by Louis Comfort Tiffany. If you have ever queued for a table at one of Hong Kong's most design-led cafés, this sits firmly at the maximalist, dress-up end of that spectrum.

What's on Agustin Balbi's Menu?

The headline for food lovers is the kitchen. The menu has been developed by Agustin Balbi, the Argentinian chef behind Andō, one of the city's Michelin-starred restaurants, who joins as the café's culinary consultant. His brief, in his own words, was to elevate "the classic café experience with a touch of luxury, much like the jewellery brand itself."

Expect Balbi's signature blend of Japanese technique and local produce, threaded through a menu that shifts with the day. It opens with breakfast, moves into the Tiffany Afternoon Tea, carries on with all-day dishes, and loosens into a more leisurely brunch at weekends. Early images point to playful, dressed-up café classics: a Tiffany Burger, a Lobster Roll, a triple-decker Tiffany Club Sandwich, a grilled prime Argentinian Angus beef tenderloin and lobster with homemade linguine — plus a proper cocktail list from that front bar.

One honest caveat: this is a brand-led dining concept first and a serious restaurant second. The afternoon tea — tiered stands, robin's-egg-blue everything, a box-shaped treat or two — is the reason most people come, and it is built for photographs as much as flavour. Come for the experience and the room; if you are chasing Balbi at full stretch, that is what Andō itself is for.

How Much Is It — and How Do You Book?

Reservations are handled through SevenRooms, and if the brand's track record in Hong Kong is any guide, you will want to book ahead — the original café ran long waitlists for its afternoon tea sittings. Walk-ins may be possible in quieter morning hours, but a peak-weekend table without a booking is optimistic.

On price, set luxury-café expectations. At Tiffany's first Hong Kong café in Tsim Sha Tsui, the signature afternoon tea ran at around HK$358 per person, with à la carte plates climbing into the few-hundred-Hong-Kong-dollar range for the showpiece mains. The new Causeway Bay menu sets its own prices, so treat those figures as a guide and confirm the latest when you reserve.

From One Peking to Lee Gardens: The Backstory

The Blue Box Café began as a New York phenomenon — a literal "breakfast at Tiffany's" on the upper floors of the Fifth Avenue flagship — before the brand began rolling out versions in major cities. Hong Kong got Asia's first in 2023, tucked into the Tiffany store at One Peking in Tsim Sha Tsui (尖沙咀), where it quickly became a bucket-list booking for afternoon-tea hunters and bridal parties.

Recent listings have shown that Tsim Sha Tsui café as under renovation, so check its status before making the trip across the harbour. Either way, the Lee Gardens opening is significant: it brings the concept to Hong Kong Island for the first time, and plants it in the middle of Causeway Bay's densest luxury-retail cluster — a natural pairing with a morning of luxury shopping in Hong Kong.

It also lands in a busy season for new tables. If you are tracking openings, our running guide to new restaurants opening in Hong Kong this June covers the wider wave, while the YumChaNow venue directory maps where to eat and play across the city.

Getting There: Causeway Bay on Foot

Getting to Lee Garden Three is easy. From MTR Causeway Bay Station, take Exit F and walk up Yun Ping Road towards Hysan Avenue — the Lee Gardens cluster is roughly a two-minute walk. The flagship sits among the Lee Gardens malls and Hysan Place, so it is simple to fold a café booking into an afternoon in the neighbourhood.

A practical tip: Causeway Bay is one of the busiest districts on earth at weekends. If the café's afternoon-tea sittings book out, an off-peak weekday late morning is both calmer and easier to photograph — and it leaves you a clear run at the city's other standout brunch spots for the weekend.

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