THE FACTS ABOUT ISOLA

China Hong_Kong

Isola consists of a vast, white-on-white, textured space set into the waterfront cliff face of the cloud-bothering new International Finance Centre building. Refreshingly, for Hong Kong, it is open to everybody - if you can get a table that is. Here chefs scuttle around open copper kitchens while their elegant patrons lounge at terrace tables, barely glancing at the stunning harbour views through their designer shades. Head chef Gianni Caprioli used to work for the Agnelli family, and so is accustomed to catering to the tastes of the painfully rich. Here, his menu features stone-baked whole sea bass in a potato crust, baked mozzarella in walnut bread with sweet cherry tomatoes and thin-crusted pizza layered with Stracchino cheese and finely shaved black truffle. CONTACT Levels 3&4, IFC Mall, Central (00 852 2383 8765). About £100 for two with wine.