5 Must Try Private Kitchens Including Healthy, Plant-Based, Gluten-Free & Organic Options

Private kitchens offer the best of both worlds: the gourmet quality of restaurant food with the intimacy and personalization of a home cooked dinner. For those looking for a private kitchen with a healthy streak, as it were, check out these five choices below for a meal you are sure to remember whilst staying true to your dietary requirements.

Best For Seasonal Vegetarian Asian: Art Veggies

This private kitchen focuses on Asian and Asian fusion vegan and vegetarian fare. The dinner set menu usually includes eight to nine courses and includes a variety of soups, rice dishes, noodles, dumplings, maki sushi, vegetable dishes and desserts. Art Veggies uses fresh, local and when possible organic produce to create their changing daily menu- seasonality plays a large part in their food philosophy so expect a lot of frequent menu updates.

Green Queen Loves: They offer a set lunch that is great value, the rotating menu is available on their Facebook page daily.

Address: 2/F Fung Woo Building, 279 Des Voeux Road Central,  Sheung Wan. Call +852 2205 0728 or email info@artveggies.com for bookings. Open Monday thru Saturday.

August 2016 Update: Art Veggies has closed down. 

Best For Gluten-Free Dining: Urban Health Home Kitchen

Run by Urban Health, the Urban Health Home Kitchen is a pop-up private kitchen specializing in gluten-free fare. In addition to being gluten free, they will design a personalized menu to meet any dietary requirement you have, making this a perfect choice for that gluten free vegan or nut free friend you can never find a good venue for. Chef Andy Kun specializes in Cantonese gluten free dishes but Urban Health Home Kitchen also offers a wide arrange of cuisines including Western menus. Chef Kun is also happy to demonstrate how to make the dishes for those interested in learning more about gluten free cooking. As it is a pop-up private kitchen the location can vary- email for more details.

Green Queen Loves: They also offer a healthy lunch delivery service.

Address: 89 Caine Road, Mid-levels. Call +852 9731 8062 or email info@urbanhealth.hk for bookings.

Best For Organic Gourmet Cantonese: Yin Yang Coastal

Located on a beautiful beach in Ting Kau Village in Western Tsuen Wan (yes, there are beaches there!), Yin Yang Coastal celebrates all that is fresh and local- the menu changes daily depending on what is available. The sophisticated dishes celebrate seasonal ingredients including wild caught seafood, local poultry, homemade organic sauces, and organic produce grown on Chef Margaret Xu’s own farm. Chef Xu focuses on Cantonese cuisine and bringing diners traditional flavors, preparations and dishes. Reservations can be made for meals of six to ten courses and for a lunch or dinner seating.

Green Queen Loves: Chef Margaret also surprises by catering pop up events around town if you are lucky enough to attend one.

Address: White house, Lot 117, Ting Kau Village, Ting Kau Beach, Tsuen Wan. Call +852 2866 0868 or email booking@yinyang.hk for bookings.

Best For Vegan Fine Dining Asian: Green Veggie

This Sheung Wan based private kitchen offers a vegan fine dining set menu. Featuring dishes that have all the flavor with none of the meat, plant-based private kitchen Green Veggie is a great option to convince naysayers who believe that meatless food is nothing more than ‘rabbit food.’  The restaurant mostly focuses on the Chinese vegetarian faux meat traditions for its dishes (without the icky preservatives), but they do have a few Western-inspired menu items as well.

Green Queen Loves: Unlike most private kitchen, they are open for both lunch and dinner so you can indulge mid-day too!

Address: Room A-B, 1/F, Finance Building, 254 Des Voeux Road Central,  Sheung Wan. Call +852 2771 3260 for bookings. Open Monday thru Saturday.

Best For Light & Healthy Eastern European: Mantranz Private Kitchen

Chef and owner Vita Tomanek’s private kitchen is an intimate and cozy way to enjoy vegetarian cuisine with a Eastern European twist.  Located in Jordan, Mantranz Private Kitchen offers set menus based on homestyle Eastern Bloc culinary traditions that includes Polish, Bulgarian and Czech dishes amongst others but with a focus on healthy, organic ingredients- things like buckwheat make star appearances.

Green Queen Loves: Each season begets a whole new four course menu!

Address: 13/F, Flat D, Wai Hang Building, 3-5 Kwun, Jordan. Call +852 5597 7806 or email minipink0309@gmail.com for bookings. 

December 2105 Update: Mantranz has now closed as the owner chef has moved away from Hong Kong.

Photo credits: Open Rice (Art Veggie),  Urban Health, Yin Yang Coastal, Open Rice (Green Veggie) and Mantranz.