LPM Restaurant & Bar
The aim with every dish we serve at LPM Restaurant and Bar is to create a mouthful of food that will not be forgotten – and which you cannot find or reproduce elsewhere. Behind that is a journey to explore the essential joy at the heart of the ingredients of the French Mediterranean that we take as our inspiration. The sun-soaked artichokes, lemons, olives, courgettes, tomatoes, peppers and girolles, the freshest seafood, meat and pasta: they lead everything.
For that reason, they arrive at your table at the moment they are ready. They are prepared with techniques of extreme care and precision, à la minute, to protect their integrity. They are sourced with painstaking attention to detail. They spend long in our imagination, because this is all about finding new ways to express the cuisine of our spiritual home, the French Riviera. Even here, since we talk of journeys, it helps to appreciate that the inspiration runs back through history; in Cuisine Niçoise, for example, the Italian influence is strong, and pasta – pâtes – is commonplace. Finally, like most restaurants on the Côte d’Azur, we allow the occasional traditional French classic onto our menu… mon Dieu, however could we not?
The result is a light, varied and healthy menu of delicate intensity, unique to us, underscored by olive oils from the groves of the Alpes Maritimes. This last part of the journey – a journey for the palate across many flavours – belongs to you. We urge you: share it. Place the food in the middle, and let the ingredients take you where they will.
Our building, H Queen’s, is something genuinely unique, an arts hub running through 24 storeys of modern architecture. “An icon of urban aesthetics”, it calls itself, and it’s crammed with eye-popping, thought-provoking and influential galleries, projects and events. The building itself is right at the heart of Central: shopping, dining, business… the international focal point of Hong Kong.
The restaurant seats 104, with space for 8 at the bar and 14 on the terrace for street views. That we have an entrance at street level makes for one of the most spectacular of transitions: the door closes behind you and the chaos, the noise, the myriad scents are gone. You are on another continent. You have to smile. LPM Hong Kong really has the feel of an extended family… first-time guests shake their heads at just how many people seem to know each other. Doesn’t anyone remain at their table…?
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