Top 5 Business Lunches in Tsim Sha Tsui

Continuing on with our Top 5 series of the best restaurants for business lunches, this week we land in Tsim Sha Tsui, the busiest business district on Kowloon side. With so many hotels and new shopping malls in the area, it can be hard to know which restaurants provide the perfect business lunch venue.

As usual, we have taken into account the convenience of the location, the types of cuisines served there, as well as the facilities and atmosphere offered by the restaurants in order to help you refine your search on the perfect TST restaurant to seal the deal.

Guo Fu Lou

Occupying the 31st floor penthouse of the iSquare shopping mall is Guo Fu Lou, a restaurant that offers haute Cantonese cuisine. Guo Fu Lou started as a banquet restaurant catering to special events such as weddings, but have since evolved to draw in the lunchtime crowd as well. Its "Strictly Business" set lunch menu are tailored for parties for four, six or eight people and allows you and your business partners to enjoy the Chinese tradition of sharing the dishes and of course, trying a bit more than just your own plate. It includes their daily soup, main dishes (the number of main dishes varies on the number of people), rice or noodles and desserts. Recommended mains are the barbecued combo; sautéed shredded prawns, crab meat with onions, bean sprouts and egg; and long braised beef brisket and tendon in casserole.

31/F, iSquare, 63 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Tel: +852 2487-3788.

Hugo's

With direct access to the MTR station and located at the Lobby Level of the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, the historic Hugo's provides convenience and a good ambience for you and your clients to discuss business. With its retro setting, with dramatic wooden doors and medieval design elements, you will have a topic to break the ice with your lunch companions with, while seated in their spacious and comfortable seats. Hugo's three-course lunch set enables diners to have a great variety of choices as they enjoy a simple, yet fulfilling lunch. For example, Hugo's offers a great selection of main courses, including its signature roast Australian black Angus rib of beef encased in a carving wagon and served tableside. We also love the trolleys that come around offering freshly made appetisers, as well as dessert. This old-fashioned touch should ensure your dining companions feel well taken care of.

Lobby Level, Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui, 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Tel: +852 3721-7733.

Kaika

Offering an extensive choice of authentic teppanyaki, sushi and sashimi, Kaika at The One is a great place to impress your clients. Overlooking the bustling streets of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kaika has three VIP rooms that are perfect for meetings for a group of eight to ten people. You and your clients can watch your food being freshly made to order by the teppanyaki chefs, and hopefully this attention to detail will impress your potential partners. Its lunch menu features the the "special teppanyaki course", which includes an appetiser, salad, sashimi and various teppanyaki ingredients such as shell ish, king prawns, seasonal vegetables and a fine beef selection. Tailor-made menus are also available.

Level 19, The ONE, 100 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Tel: +852 297- 2888.

Above and Beyond

So you want to impress overseas client with traditional Cantonese dim sum but at the same time, require a space that will allow you to have a working lunchg complete with power-point facilities? IAbove and Beyond at Hotel Icon is your best bet. Located on the 28th floor, Above and Beyond has four ultra private rooms which are equipped with a television system for presentations and their dining tables are actually boardroom tables, allowing you to talk business without worrying about the hardware you need for your presentation. Among the four private rooms, one of them even has a functioning kitchen where you can impress your clients by inviting a private chef to serve customised meals.

Above and Beyond's impressive signature dishes include steamed carol crab with glutinous rice, smoke Bresse pigeon with oolong tea leaves and the double-boiled pear with osmanthus served with Chinese petit fours.

28/F, Hotel Icon, 17 Science Musuem Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Tel: +852 3400-1318.

Tosca

On the other side of Tsim Sha Tsui lies Tosca, atop the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong. Linked to Elementts shopping mall and the Kowloon MTR Station, Tosca is relatively easy to get to and its view from the 103rd floor will make the trip worth it.

Tosca's two-story high ceiling and an open kitchen provides a lively and comfortable atmosphere for your business lunch. For more privacy, its "Floria" private dining room has a private bathroom and can accommodate up to 12 guests, there are also two other semi-private areas at the two corners of the restaurant to choose from.

Guests can choose either two to four courses from their set lunch menu, which includes a number of seafood cuisine, seafood dishes and homemade pastas. The set lunch is priced at HK420 for 4 courses, quite a bargain given the impressive location and ideal for those who no longer have access to the company's black Amex.

102/F, The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, International Commerce Centre, 1 Austin Road West. Tel: +852 2263-2263.