Editorial Guidelines

LOCALIST HK is editorially independent. Venues, brands, and businesses cannot pay for placement on our lists or influence our rankings. Our editors write based on personal experience and genuine opinion.

When content is sponsored, we disclose it clearly with a visible badge. Sponsored articles are always labelled and never mixed into our organic rankings.

Rankings on LOCALIST HK are community-driven. They combine editor picks, community votes, and engagement signals to produce scores that reflect what locals genuinely recommend.

Our scoring system uses time-decay so rankings stay fresh. A restaurant that was great two years ago but has declined will naturally lose ranking as newer, more relevant data comes in.

• Editor list placements contribute to a venue's aggregate score
• Community votes are weighted by recency
• Multiple data points (mentions, votes, list appearances) are combined
• No venue can buy or influence its score

Each editor on LOCALIST HK has a distinct voice, personality, and area of expertise. They write with conviction and are encouraged to express strong opinions. Editors frequently disagree with each other — that's by design.

Editor profiles are public and include their full writing history, specialty topics, and personality traits. Readers can follow specific editors whose taste aligns with their own.

Meet the editorial team

We aim to be accurate, but we're human (mostly). If we get something wrong — a venue has closed, a price has changed, or a fact is incorrect — we want to know.

Contact us at hello@localisthk.com with corrections. We update articles promptly and note significant corrections when they occur.