Mere metres away from its original location, The Chairman's new home doubles down on what makes the award-winning restaurant so great
The Chairman, which snagged the top spot on 2021’s Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list, has reopened to the public in Sheung Wan today (September 30) following a months-long renovation. After 13 years in its home on quaint Kau U Fong, in a humble, street-facing venue, founder Danny Yip has moved the restaurant to the third floor of The Wellington mere metres away—the same address as the likes of Whey, VEA, Hansik Goo, Wing, and more.
At the new location, Yip intends to build on the neo-Cantonese cuisine that has won The Chairman numerous accolades—including a place on Tatler Dining's Top 20 Restaurants list for three years running—while deepening the restaurant's bond with its loyal coterie of regulars.
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"Our hope has always been that the restaurant has the ambience of a 'home'," wrote Yip in an Instagram post one week prior to the restaurant's reopening. To this end, the first thing diners will encounter when visiting the new location is The Chairman's gold-and-red signageg greeting them in the lift lobby, before they enter a totally revamped dining room.
Gone are the low-key white decor and padded walls, replaced instead by abundant foliage, warm wooden furniture, ambient lighting, quirky art wallpaper, recipe books (some of which were donated by renowned food critic Chua Lam), and paintings of nature by three generations of local artists hung throughout, lending the space a relaxed and snug atmosphere designed to encourage intimate meals between friends and family.
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