Places in Hong Kong where to savour white truffles this season

by Aude Camus
 
The Alba White Truffle season is on and you have until January to make the most of it and treat yourself to the distinctive flavours of the white diamonds.
 
by alphabetical order
 
 
Associazone Chianti

Ship Street’s Tuscan trattoria, by Black Sheep Restaurants, is celebrating the truffle season with the option to add white truffle shavings on the house’s signature Carne Cruda, a Tuscan steak tartare. In addition to the truffle shaving add-on, the seasonal butter and white truffle Tagliatelle (HKD 218) are back on the menu and a mouth-watering special Truffle Polenta (HKD 108) – creamy polenta with mixed mushrooms and white truffle – has been added to the truffle feast.
 
Associazione Chianti
15 Ship Street – Wan Chai
 
 
 
Carbone

Truffle season is a serious affair at Black Sheep Restaurants’ New-York Italian venue and chef Braden Reardon is welcoming the “white diamond” with a range of exquisite specials: the Truffle Fettucine (HKD 648) - showered with truffle shavings - the truffle-topped fluffy Japanese Eggs on Brioche (HKD 498) and the very pornfood Truffle Tortellini (HKD 748) served with white truffle butter, sheep’s milk ricotta and parmesan.
 
Carbone
9F, LKF Tower, 33 Wyndham Street – Central
 
 
 
Castellana

The Piedmont-cuisine focused restaurant, opened in collaboration with two Michelin-star chef Marco Sacco, is going grand to celebrate the Alba Truffle this year with a dedicated Alba White Truffle Menu (HKD1,580 for 4 courses or HKD 2,080 with Piedmont wines pairing / HKD 1,980 for 7 courses or HKD 2,880 with Piedmont wines pairing). You can expect 3g of white truffle per dish and a range of delicious creations such as the traditional Brodo “Au Plin” - winter cabbage broth, small agnolotti pasta stuffed with wagyu beef, Grana Padano cheese and Piedmont’s hazelnut – the Uovo di Montagna – organic Italian Dolomite mountain egg white meringue steam-cooked at 90 degrees and served with raw egg yolk - or the Taglierini al Tartufo Bianco d’Alba aka the ultimate truffle pasta dish.
 
 
Castellana
10/F Cubus, 1 Hoi Ping Road – Causeway Bay
 
 
 
DiVino Group

Chef Michele from DiVino Group invites you to experience white truffles as you wish with a “No menu. No limitations. No rules” approach encouraging you to be creative and add on white truffles to any dish at Spasso, DiVino Patio and DiVino. But if you’d like to be guided in your exploration of the “white diamond”, signature creations highlighting its distinctive flavours are also available such as the Carnaroli risotto “Gran Riserva” (Spasso) – Castelmagno cheese, bone marrow, Barolo wine reduction and white truffle – the homemade egg Taglioni (DiVino Patio)– brown butter and white truffle or the AUS Black Tide striploin “Tagliata” with cream of Gorgonzola, beetroot fondue, arugula and white truffle at DiVino.
 
DiVino group



LPM Restaurant & Bar

Head Chef Maurizio Pace is pairing the alluring aromas and enriching earthy flavours of the “white diamond” with signature French Mediterranean dishes such as the fresh house-made Rigatoni, Linguini and Gnocchi (HKD 838) tossed in a creamy truffle oil flavoured sauced and topped with truffle shavings but also the super decadent White Truffle with Burrata (HKD 838).
 
Wanna try something quite different? Why don’t you your order the autumn-inspired Delicatess (HKD 110) , a cocktail infused with truffle and offering a contemporary spin on the classic Old Fashioned.
 
White Truffle Menu is available from October 26 (Monday) until the end of November
 
LPM Restaurant & Bar
LPM Restaurant & Bar, 23-29 Stanley Street Shop 1, 1/F, H Queen’s – Central

 

Feeling like a chef and in the mood to enjoy fresh white truffle in the comfort of your home? Plantin Kaviari, the retail online shop of Gourmet en Provence which supplies some of the finest restaurants in Hong Kong, receives 3 fresh shipments a week during the Alba Truffle season and is your go-to destination for ordering the “white diamond”.
 
Plantin Kaviari