ONE MICHELIN STAR AND MICHELIN GREEN STAR RECIPIENT ROGANIC HONG KONG INTRODUCES SECOND ANNUAL “FRIENDS OF SUSTAINABILITY” SERIES

This May, Michelin Green Star recipient Roganic Hong Kong joins forces with the innovative hospitality leaders in Hong Kong to showcase sustainable practices through chef collaborations and exclusive dining events

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<<27^th April 2022 – Hong Kong>> Simon Rogan’s one MICHELIN-starred and MICHELIN Green Star recipient, Roganic continues its mission to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable practices and development within the hospitality industry. Together with friends from the local F&B industry, Roganic brings back Roganic & Friends of Sustainability for its second season, a series of sustainability events and collaborations including Local Heroes Dinner presented by Roganic on 1^st May and a special Eight-Hands Climate Action Charity Lunch on 29^th May with the chefs of One MICHELIN-starred Roganic, CHAAT, Man Ho and Tatler Dining’s Top 20 Most Impactful Restaurant, Estro.

Local Heroes Dinner on Friday – 1^st May, 2022

On 1^st May, Roganic will host a special dinner to celebrate local artisans, growers, farmers, and producers with all ingredients – fruits, vegetables, and seafood – sourced within 160 kilometers of Hong Kong. Priced at HK$1,080+10% per guest, the menu will feature 12 courses of innovative interpretations of farm-fresh local produce, from the creative use of Zen Farm carrots and Yi-o Farm’s cross-bred long grain rice to Hong Kong-grown strawberries with local honey for dessert. After dinner, each guest will receive surplus vegetables from Hong Kong Farmer’s Pride to take home in an eco-friendly and reusable Roganic-branded bag.

Roganic Local Heroes Dinner Full Tasting Menu
HK$1,080 + 10% per guest

A4 wagyu, roast onion, seaweed and caviar

Yi-o rice cracker, karasumi, salted lemon

Truffle pudding, birch sap, stout and Lincolnshire poacher

New Territories tomato, whipped mussel, turnip

Soda bread with brown cultured English butter

Chawanmushi, mushroom XO, tendon, marrow

Zen farm carrots with chicken skin, horseradish, and wasabi leaf

Poached sea bass with farmhouse productions, vegetables and dill

14-day aged duck with red cabbage, beetroot and preserved blackcurrant

Fig leaf with caramelized yogurt cornetto
Hong Kong strawberry with yuzu, honeycomb and shiso

Whipped hazelnut praline, brown butter koji caramel and Jerusalem artichoke

Special Eight-Hands Climate Action Charity Lunch on Sunday – 29^th May 2022

On 29^th May (Sunday), Roganic gives trusted producers, growers, and friends the spotlight they deserve by way of a celebration lunch to conclude the month’s Roganic & Friends of Sustainability series. Proceeds from the lunch will be donated towards Zero Foodprint Asia, which addresses greenhouse gas emissions through investments in carbon farming. Zero Foodprint Asia is an arm of Zero Foodprint licensed and managed by Grassroots Initiatives, designed to help restaurants take action against climate change by way of funding farmers to grow better food while drawing down carbon via regenerative agriculture. Since April 2020, ZFP Global and its restaurant partners have raised over USD600,000 granted across 36 farm projects which is estimate to remove 18,000+ metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

Priced at HK$2,080 +10% per guest, the menu is a cross-collaboration among the city’s most acclaimed restaurants including one Michelin-starred Roganic Hong Kong led by Chef Ashley Salmon, one Michelin-starred Indian restaurant CHAAT by Chef Manav Tuli, new avant-garde Italian restaurant Estro by Chef Antimo Maria Merone, and one Michelin-starred refined Cantonese restaurant Man Ho by Chef Jayson Tang. The menu will use and feature as much local ingredients sourced within 160km of Hong Kong radius as possible including local seafood such as garoupa, shrimp, fish maw and an abundance of Hong Kong’s locally grown vegetables supplied by organic farms in the New Territories.

The full menu is as below:
8-Hands Climate Action Charity Lunch
by Roganic Hong Kong x CHAAT x Estro x Man Ho

HK$2,080 + 10% per guest

Welcome Snacks (2 types)

By Roganic’s Ashley Salmon

Local Cuttlefish with soy milk, capers

By Estro’s Antimo Maria Merone

Dim Sum (2 types)

Steamed local shrimp dumpling with watercress and mandarin peel

Deep-fried potato pastry stuffed with minced pork in local sweet corn sauce

By Man Ho’s Jayson Tang

Local Fish Maw Keema Served with milk buns

By Chaat’s Manav Tuli

Irish Soda Bread

By Roganic’s Ashley Salmon

Bottoni Pasta with locally grown eggplant parmigiana, yellow tomato, basil

By Estro’s Antimo Maria Merone

Local deep-fried caul fat rolled with garoupa fillet and fish maw in white pepper fish broth

By Man Ho’s Jayson Tang

Local Three yellow chicken, asparagus, smoked egg, mushroom ‘xo’

By Roganic’s Ashley Salmon

Nimbu Hong Kong Lemon Tart Served with coconut ice cream

By Chaat’s Manav Tuli

Marigold, Hong Kong Honey, preserved mulberry

By Roganic’s Ashley Salmon

For all bookings of the above mentioned special events, please visit https://www.roganic.com.hk/ for details.

<<ENDS>>

About Roganic Hong Kong:

Roganic first opened in 2011 in Marylebone as a two-year pop-up, a sister restaurant to L’Enclume. Five years later, Roganic returned to London, bringing elements of L’Enclume, Simon Rogan’s two Michelin star restaurant in the Lake District. The team is comprised of the original Roganic line up, amongst other past and present employees of UMBEL Restaurant Group. Roganic runs alongside Aulis London, a development kitchen and eight-seat chef’s table which opened in Soho on 14th October 2017.

In Feb 2019, Roganic, led by Head Chef Ashley Salmon, opened in Hong Kong alongside AULIS Hong Kong and was awarded with 1 MICHELIN star in the MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020. In Jan 2021, Roganic Hong Kong recieved Hong Kong’s first ever MICHELIN Green Star by MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2021.

Restaurant Information

Address: Roganic, UG/F 08, Sino Plaza, 255 Gloucester road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

Email: reservations@roganic.com.hk

Tel: +852-2817-8383

Facebook Page – www.facebook.com/RoganicHongKong

Instagram: @RoganicHongKong

Capacity: 50 pax main dining room / 34 pax private dining rooms / 8 kitchen counter seats

Restaurant Accolades & Awards

Best New Restaurant – Foodie

Best New Foreign Restaurant – Time Out Hong Kong

Best New Restaurant of 2019 – Lifestyle Asia Hong Kong

Best Service – T Dining by Hong Kong Tatler 2019

Top 20 Restaurants of Hong Kong & Macau – T Dining by Hong Kong Tatler 2019

Best New Restaurant – T Dining by Hong Kong Tatler 2019

One Michelin Star – MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020, 2021, 2022

Best Service – SCMP Top 100 Tables 2020 + SCMP Top 100 Tables 2021

MICHELIN Green Star – MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2021, 2022

Best Sustainable Restaurant – SCMP Top 100 Tables 2022