Acclaimed chef Vicky Lau is the founder, owner and head chef of Tate Dining Room and Bar, which opened in 2012. Lau received her first Michelin star a year later, and then a second in 2021, making Lau the first female chef in Asia to receive such an accolade. In 2020, she also opened lifestyle store and bakery Date By Tate, followed by French-Chinese restaurant Mora in 2022.

She is known for her sophisticated East-meets-West cuisine and for her thought-provoking approach to the business of menu construction, conceiving dishes as odes to specific ingredients. For her work, Lau was ranked #49 by the Best Chef Awards in 2021, making her the top-ranked chef in Hong Kong; she was ranked #74 in 2022, and #53 in 2023. She was also named Chef of the Year at the Tatler Dining Awards in 2023.

Vicky Lau studied graphic design and worked as a designer, first as an art director for an advertising agency in New York and then as head of her own design agency in Hong Kong, before training at Le Cordon Bleu in Bangkok and working at Cepage in Hong Kong, whose chef, Sebastian Lepinoy, she credits as her mentor. Her artistic leanings are immediately evident in her restaurant’s stylish decor and the dramatic, innovative and beautiful ways she presents her food.

Outside of the kitchen, Lau is on the board of directors for local charity, Feeding Hong Kong, working together with the committee to donate and distribute food to vulnerable people in Hong Kong.