Mandarin Oriental The Landmark, Hong Kong Earns Two MICHELIN Keys

Mandarin Oriental The Landmark, Hong Kong has been awarded Two MICHELIN Keys by the MICHELIN Guide, about three months after the hotel reopened following an extensive transformation. The distinction places the property, with its 111 rooms and suites in Central, among the stays the Guide considers worthy of a special journey.

MICHELIN Keys are the hotel equivalent of the Guide’s restaurant stars, applying the same idea to the stay itself. The Guide assesses each property across five areas: architecture and design, service, personality, value and contribution to the destination. Two Keys denote an exceptional stay and a memorable experience worthy of a special journey. For a traveller deciding where to stay in Hong Kong, the rating offers a considered outside view of a hotel that has only recently returned to the city.

The timing gives the award its weight. The announcement came on 22 September 2026, with the reopened hotel still in its first months of operation. A newly transformed property usually asks its early guests to take a certain amount on trust. Here the MICHELIN Guide has already weighed in on the result, and its verdict covers the whole stay, from the building and its rooms to the way the hotel is run.

Two design names sit behind the new hotel. The façade is the work of the design practice Neri&Hu, and the reimagined interiors are by Joyce Wang, whose scheme runs through all 111 rooms and suites. Architecture and design is one of the criteria the Guide lists for its Keys, so the pairing bears directly on the result. Readers who follow hotel design will recognise both names, and the Landmark now gives them a single address in Central where the two can be seen together.

General Manager Michael Groll called the award a validation of the hotel’s transformation. That transformation, as he described it, took in redesigned rooms and suites, wellness and dining: three parts of the hotel that a guest meets in the course of an ordinary day. The Two Keys suggest that the work has registered across all of them, and that it has done so quickly.

Dining is where the Landmark’s case is most concentrated. The seventh floor houses seven MICHELIN Stars and one MICHELIN Green Star under one roof. Amber holds three stars and the Green Star, Sushi Shikon holds three stars, and Rin holds one. Taken together, the three restaurants account for the full seven. For a guest, this means that an evening at any of the three ends a short distance from the room.

It is worth being clear about what each award covers. The Keys belong to the hotel as a place to stay, and the Stars belong to the restaurants on its seventh floor. They are separate MICHELIN distinctions that now share one address, and together they give the Landmark an unusually complete set of credentials for a property of its size.

The location completes the picture. The hotel stands in the heart of Central, Hong Kong’s financial and fashion district, which suits both the traveller in town for work and the one who has come for the shops. The contribution a hotel makes to its destination is among the things the Guide’s Keys are designed to recognise, and a hotel in the middle of Central is well placed to make one.

For the discerning traveller, the practical reading is straightforward. Mandarin Oriental The Landmark, Hong Kong is open, newly designed inside and out, and now carries a rating that the MICHELIN Guide gives to stays worth a special journey. Those planning a Hong Kong trip around the table have Amber, Sushi Shikon and Rin on a single floor, and those planning around the room have Joyce Wang’s interiors to consider. Either way, the hotel has become a reason to build a stay in Central around it.

Source: Mandarin Oriental