Central
Urban bakery
For an affordable healthy lunch at the Landmark, head to Urban Bakery (also part of Maxim’s group). With sleek interiors inspired by London Street culture, Urban Bakery is set in a cozy yet urban dining space with walls designed by Portuguese Graffiti Artist Vhils. Urban Bakery is a great place to pick up a healthy salad box for lunch in Central but they are better known for their freshly baked croissant.
Shop 322, 3/F, Landmark Atrium, 12-16 Des Voeux Rd. Central, Hong Kong. Tel: 3565-4320
Fish & Meat
Hidden away on the on the corner of Wyndham Street and Glenealy is Fish & Meat. This trendy restaurant offers simple seafood and meat dishes with fresh ingredients that nourishes your body. The kitchen is helmed by chef Russell Doctrove, who has over 10 years of experience cooking in some of top restaurants in the world including Michelin-starred restaurant Gordon Ramsey, and Amber to name a few. The menu focuses on farm-to-table ingredients to create rustic-style dishes with fish and meat options.
32 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong. Tel: 2565-6788 www.fishandmeat.hk
Genie Juicery
Genie Juicery has been the talk of the town for a while for their juice cleanse programs which lasts for multiple days. Detoxers drink strictly juices to cleanse their bodies of nasties. Designed for busy city-dwellers keep fit on the go to stay healthy with no added fuss. For those who don’t’ want a cleanse program, you can visit their juice bar at IFC where you can pick up juices, smoothies and healthy snacks like raw granola.
2096B, ifc Mall, 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong. Tel: 2803-0369 www.geniejuicery.com
Mana! Fast Slow Food
Located on the steep slopes of Wellington Street is Mana, a small cafe for health junkies looking for vegetarian grab-and-go meals with gluten-free options. Mana Raw is a smaller version of the original Mana, just a few steps away at 97 Wellington Street. Each item on the menu is packed full of nutritional goodness. Their speciality, toasted wraps offers over 15 choices of fillings from grilled vegetable, humus, falafel to salad. Or get their delicious tofu burger for hearty satisfying meal. With yoghurt bowls full of vitamins like acai berries, raw granola and cacao and healthy juices and drinks like the wheatgrass shot, Mana is one of the most popular places for healthy eaters, be prepared to wait as their lunch queue is usually very long.
92 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong. Tel:2581-1611 www.mana.hk
Nood Food 
Nood is Pure Fitness’s new health food cafe that opened in 2015 to cater to Pure Fitness’s members and also the demand for healthy food amongst the expats living in Midlevels. Located on the ground floor of Pure Fitness Centre in the middle of Soho next to the Midlevels escalators, Nood is conveniently located so you can grab a healthy meal on the way to work. Gym members can grab a protein shake or a vitamin packed juiced after their workout. There is a hot food section and salads bar where you can pack a healthy lunch to work and a prepackaged food section for grab and go healthy snacks and juices. The bar opens from 7am till late.
32 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong. Tel: 8199-8189 www.allnood.com
Opened by a local NGO (Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups) and as the name suggests, Oraganic 21 is a healthy restaurant that uses ingredients sourced from their own organic farm in Yuen Long, the only USDA certified farm in Hong Kong. Organic 21 has an all white clean interior; ceiling, walls, tables and chairs that sets a clean eating atmosphere. The menu is starkly all vegetarian and they serve breakfast, brunch and lunch. You can pick up your organic food at their grocery shop next door.
Open Kitchen, formerly Simply Life is popular choice for those working in IFC and queues during lunch hours speak for itself. There’s a decent selection of food which are reasonably priced like sandwiches, pasta and risotto dishes under HK$200. We love the their salad bar that serves a range of delicious healthy greens. Choose from roasted pumpkin salad, french beans, mixed grilled vege, mushroom salads and lots more, all made with fresh ingredients and comes in generous portions.
Located on Stanley Street is Wasabi Warriors, a takeaway where you can drop by tasty sushi bites and rolls. Originally from Australia, they expanded its empire in 2015 after finding huge success in their hometown with 50 stores since its inception back in 2010. We love the eco-friendly concepts like ingredients using free-range chicken and sustainable Norwegian salmon with organic vegetables and the taste which does not disappoint. 
Eat Right offers healthy alternatives to the insanely rich and unhealthy meals around Hong Kong. Most items on the menu taste are delicious and doesn’t skimp out on the flavour. We love their signature cuban bean rice salad and their organic wholewheat pancakes with blueberry compote that leaves us pleasantly satisfied without feeling guilty. For those who need a something more filling, try their baked salmon fillet or the Thai chicken and mango salad. On top of that, owner Martin Lorentsson offers a food program for those who are too busy to follow a diet with meals are tailored to your body’s needs and delivered to your doorstep.
Kale is a modern restaurant serving vegetarian and meat options that which took us by surprise as most healthy eateries only serve vegetarian dishes. Kale offers a selection of nutritious food that’s both flavourfull and good for the body. Apart from the usual salad and soup options, there’s a variety of meaty choices like Cajun Chicken and Kale Crab Fried Rice.1-3 Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Tel: www.kale.com.hk
Fresca 
New to Hong Kong’s healthy eating scene is Fresca, a vegetarian restaurant that just opened in late 2015 on 54 Hollywood Road. Fresca serves a selection of salad, soups and sandwiches that uses ingredients only from local farms. The location is small and seats no more than 25. The place is decked out with cute clay pieces of farm animals and glass jars with miniature gardens.
Grassroot Pantry is a hip vegetarian cafe located on Hollywood Road on Upper Shueng Wan. The place is headed up by Peggy Chan who’s very passionate about healthy eating sustainable farming and organic food. Designed like a cosy English home, the dining area is like a living room decorated with flowers, plant pots, rustic interiors, whimsical wallpaper and antique pieces. Be prepared for delicious healthy food as the menu is designed to impressed. Order a Thai vegetable curry, Japanese soba noodles or Schezuan Vegetable Stir Fry.
Anything But Salad
Inspired by Hawaiian cuisine, Pololi is a take-out joint decorated in tiki tiki themed decor like surfboards and painted waves on walls to create a Hawaiian relaxed atmosphere. The menu is all about healthy ‘poke’ sashimi bowls, which are cubes of seasoned raw tuna mix with salad, rice or both. Seating is limited at Pololi with 4 counter seats, but we saw customers eating on the steps outside.
313 Queen’s Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Tel: 2511-1106 www.pololikai.com
Sai Ying Pun
Locofama 
Co-founded by Chef Justin Chan, Locofama is a great place for those looking for some peace and quiet away from the busy city life to sit and read a book. We love the white walls, wooden rustic decor, open space, long wooden tables and open kitchen allowing guests to watch chefs cook. Come here for simple healthy food made from fresh intervenes and flavours are equally well balanced.
9-13 Fuk Sau Lane, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong. Tel: 2547-7668 www.locofama.com
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