The next time you’re taking off at Hong Kong International Airport, you won’t have to worry about leaving behind the city’s top eateries. Popular Italian restaurant Pirata will be joining you on board bringing a piece of Hong Kong and a taste of its homestyle, honest Italian fare to your flight.

Opened in 2014, Pirata is Pirata Group’s flagship Italian restaurant in Wan Chai, specialising in familial regional specialties served up in large plates to share. Long journeys can be physically draining even for the most seasoned of travellers, so being able to impart that taste of familiarity and comfort to our passengers was key. This collaboration comes as the latest in a series of successful menu partnerships with Duddell’s, The Coffee Academics and most recently, Veda, in our continued efforts to elevate and diversify our inflight dining offerings.

“We wish to enhance the inflight experience with authentic and exceptional dining experiences, and these are some of Hong Kong’s most exciting brands that share our commitment to the finest quality food and drinks,” says Vassilios Georgakopoulos, Head of Dining and Hospitality at Cathay.

“Our partnership with Duddell’s builds upon ‘Hong Kong Flavours’, a curation that celebrates our home city’s food heritage and offers a taste of Hong Kong in the skies. With Veda, we have developed a refreshed plant-forward menu that elevates our inflight wellness dining proposition. The collaboration with Pirata complements these offerings by forging our suite of international favourites – specifically timeless Italian dishes that focus on sophisticated simplicity, traditional flavours and quality ingredients.”