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Best Indian Restaurants in Hong Kong 2026
Indian · Hong Kong · 6 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 20, 2026 · Updated June 20, 2026
In 2019 a Punjabi tandoor grillhouse on Wyndham Street became the first restaurant of its kind anywhere in the world to win a Michelin star, and New Punjab Club has held that star every year since. It is the high point of an Indian scene in Hong Kong that splits cleanly in two: a cluster of polished, ambitious rooms in Central around Wyndham Street and Hollywood Road, and the older, cheaper, more traditional curry houses across the harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui. Six rooms, ranked from a HK$600 grill dinner to a HK$120 dosa, on the cooking, the room and the value.
1.New Punjab Club
The world's first Michelin-starred Punjabi grillhouse, tandoor cooking on premium proteins; book for the city's only starred Indian and best occasion meal.
New Punjab Club, the Black Sheep Restaurants grillhouse on Wyndham Street in Central, is the only Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in Hong Kong — and was the first Punjabi restaurant in the world to take a star, in 2019, retained every year since. Chef Palash Mitra brings fine-dining technique to robust Punjabi cooking, grilling premium proteins over tandoors restored from a co-founder's father's old Wyndham Street restaurant, alongside rich curries and house breads. The room channels the swagger of post-Partition Lahore and Amritsar, loud and glamorous, the opposite of a quiet curry house. It is the Indian restaurant to book for a real occasion. Reserve a week or two ahead through Black Sheep.
Reserve direct or on SevenRooms; the tandoori meats, the butter chicken and house naan.
2.Chaiwala
The stylish modern-Indian room a few doors from the star; book for bold, colourful cooking and the city's best Indian cocktails.
Chaiwala, on Wyndham Street in Central since 2018, is the design-led modern-Indian counterpoint to New Punjab Club a few doors away — a maximalist, jewel-toned room from the Pirata Group, now in the hands of executive chef Chandan Singh. The cooking is bold and contemporary: punchy street-food snacks, tandoori plates, layered curries, and a cocktail program that leans into Indian spice harder than almost any room in the city. It is louder and more of a scene than a traditional Indian dinner, which is exactly the point for a group or a date. The value is strong for Central. Book ahead for weekends through the restaurant.
Reserve direct; the tandoori platter, the butter chicken and a spice-forward cocktail.
3.Veda
Hong Kong's first vegetarian hotel restaurant, Indian-inspired and design-forward; book for meat-free cooking that no one at the table will miss the meat at.
Veda, inside the Ovolo Central hotel on Arbuthnot Road, opened in 2019 as Hong Kong's first vegetarian hotel restaurant, with a menu devised by Australian vegetarian chef Hetty McKinnon. The cooking is Indian at its core but East-meets-West in reach — roasted aloo gobi, Kathmandu momos, street-side pani puri, a four-cheese naan — served in one of the most stylish rooms on this list, all warm wood and colour. It is the proof that vegetarian Indian can be a destination rather than a concession, and it converts committed carnivores regularly. A strong pick for a mixed table or a lighter dinner. Book ahead for dinner; the room is popular.
Reserve on the hotel site or OpenTable; the pani puri, the aloo gobi and the cheese naan.
4.Bombay Dreams
The Central institution that won Hong Kong's first Indian Bib Gourmand; go for the long-running lunch buffet that downtown swears by.
Bombay Dreams, up a lift in the Winning Centre at 46 Wyndham Street, has fed Central since 2002 and holds a place in the record books as the first Indian restaurant in Hong Kong to earn a Michelin Bib Gourmand, in 2009, which it kept for a dozen years. The draw is the value and the consistency: a generous weekday lunch buffet of butter chicken, fish masala, tandoori, saag paneer and fresh naan that the Central lunch crowd has relied on for two decades. Dinner à la carte is solid North Indian without the fine-dining markup. It is not the most fashionable room, and it does not need to be. Walk in for lunch, or book dinner ahead.
Walk in for the lunch buffet, or reserve dinner; the butter chicken and the tandoori mixed grill.
5.Jashan
The Hollywood Road North Indian stalwart for kebabs and curries; book for a reliable, well-priced dinner away from the Wyndham Street scene.
Jashan, a flight up at Amber Lodge on 23 Hollywood Road, has been a Central fixture since 2003, serving creative North Indian curries and a strong tandoor program of kebabs in a calmer, more old-school room than the Wyndham Street crowd. Its daily lunch buffet is a downtown standby, and the dinner menu rewards a table that orders across the grill and the curry list. It markets a salt-and-sugar-reduction approach that lands lighter than the usual hotel-Indian richness, without dulling the spice. For a dependable, well-priced Indian dinner with a bit more calm than the scene rooms, this is the Central pick. Book ahead for weekend dinner.
Reserve direct; the seekh and malai kebabs, a rogan josh and garlic naan.
6.Woodlands
Hong Kong's original Indian vegetarian, South Indian since 1981; cross to Kowloon for the city's best dosa and thali on the cheap.
Woodlands, tucked into Wing On Plaza at 62 Mody Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, opened in 1981 as the first Indian vegetarian restaurant in Hong Kong and remains the best of the Kowloon-side options. It is South Indian to the core — crisp dosa, the paper masala dosa that is the order to beat, idli, vada and a full thali — vegetarian, vegan- and Jain-friendly, and cheap enough to make it a regular rather than an occasion. The room is plain and the service brisk, but the cooking is the real thing, and it sits a step outside the MTR for a quick, brilliant, meat-free meal. Walk in; lunchtimes draw a crowd.
Walk in, no reservations; the paper masala dosa, an idli plate and a South Indian thali.
How Hong Kong eats Indian
Hong Kong's Indian food has no single Little India; it lives in two places. Central holds the ambitious, fashionable rooms — New Punjab Club, Chaiwala, Veda, Bombay Dreams and Jashan all within a few minutes' walk around Wyndham Street and Hollywood Road, the SoHo escalator running through the middle of them. Across the harbour, Tsim Sha Tsui carries the older, cheaper, more traditional end: South Indian vegetarian rooms like Woodlands and the legendary, ramshackle curry houses inside Chungking Mansions, where the city's South Asian community has eaten for decades. The two halves serve very different occasions at very different prices.
Practicalities: the Central rooms book ahead for weekends through SevenRooms, OpenTable and direct, while the lunch buffets and TST canteens are walk-in. A 10 percent service charge is standard and printed on the bill, so extra tipping is not expected. For the wider field, compare the global picture in the best Indian restaurants worldwide guide, read the Singapore Indian scene for the other great Asian diaspora city, and map the rest of town through the Hong Kong dining guide.
Where not to book
Skip these for real Indian
The tourist-strip "curry house" with a photo menu and a tout outside. A handful of rooms on the busiest Tsim Sha Tsui blocks run generic, microwaved curries at a markup aimed at visitors who do not know better. Cross to Woodlands for the real South Indian thing, or go up to the Central rooms above.
New Punjab Club if you want a quiet, cheap, traditional curry. It is a loud, glamorous, fine-dining grillhouse at a fine-dining price, built for a night out, not a budget dinner. For everyday Indian on a walk-in, head to Bombay Dreams at lunch or Woodlands in Kowloon.
Frequently asked
What is the best Indian restaurant in Hong Kong?
New Punjab Club on Wyndham Street is the city's best, a Michelin-starred Punjabi tandoor grillhouse from Black Sheep Restaurants where chef Palash Mitra grills premium proteins over restored tandoors. It became the world's first Punjabi restaurant to win a Michelin star in 2019 and has held it every year since. For modern Indian, Chaiwala nearby is the stylish alternative; for vegetarian, Veda at Ovolo Central. New Punjab Club is the answer for an occasion.
Where is the Indian food district in Hong Kong?
Hong Kong has no single Little India, but two clusters. The upscale Indian rooms — New Punjab Club, Chaiwala, Veda, Bombay Dreams and Jashan — sit within a few blocks of each other in Central, around Wyndham Street and Hollywood Road. The older, more traditional and budget end, including Woodlands and the curry houses of Chungking Mansions, is across the harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. Central is for a night out; TST is for an everyday plate.
How much does Indian food cost in Hong Kong?
The range is wide. A weekday lunch buffet at Bombay Dreams or Jashan runs HK$150 to HK$250, and a dosa or thali at Woodlands lands under HK$150. A dinner at Veda or Chaiwala runs HK$350 to HK$550 a head. At the top, New Punjab Club is a HK$600-plus dinner before drinks, more if you build a meal around the grill. You can eat Indian cheaply in Tsim Sha Tsui or make a real night of it in Central.
Which Indian restaurant in Hong Kong has a Michelin star?
New Punjab Club is the only Indian restaurant in Hong Kong with a Michelin star. It earned one star in the 2019 guide — the first Punjabi restaurant anywhere to do so — and has retained it every year since, including the current guide. Bombay Dreams holds a different distinction as the first Indian restaurant in Hong Kong to earn a Bib Gourmand, in 2009. New Punjab Club remains the city's only starred Indian kitchen.
Is there good vegetarian Indian food in Hong Kong?
Yes. Veda at Ovolo Central is Hong Kong's first vegetarian hotel restaurant, a design-forward Indian-inspired room with a menu of aloo gobi, pani puri and momos. Across the harbour, Woodlands in Tsim Sha Tsui has served South Indian vegetarian food — dosa, idli, thali — since 1981 and is the city's original Indian vegetarian restaurant. Between the two you can eat brilliant meat-free Indian at very different price points and in very different rooms.
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