Our Story
Elegant. Beautiful. Excellent.
XIÙ opened in 2016 on Connecticut Street, Greenhills — the heart of Manila's Filipino-Chinese community — a project between friends and business partners united by their love of Hong Kong and its food.
xiù · elegant · beautiful · excellent
壹The Name
One character, one standard
秀 — xiù — translates three ways: elegant, beautiful, excellent. The founders chose it as a standard, not a decoration, and set it over the door of a house with a one-line premise: a taste of Hong Kong in Manila.
The name is the brief. The kitchen, the room, and the service all answer to it.
貳The Bloodline
West Villa to Connecticut Street
Since the 1980s, Lawrence Koo’s family has owned and operated West Villa Restaurant — 西苑酒家 — in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong: a Michelin Guide 2009 selection, known across the city for its “Big Brother” char siu (大哥叉燒).
Executive Chef David Cheung spent more than thirty years running kitchens in Hong Kong and China’s premier houses, West Villa and the Michelin-starred Lei Garden among them. When XIÙ opened, seven chefs came with him from Hong Kong.
The discipline they carried over is specific. Authenticity is the utmost priority: spices used sparingly, ingredients meticulously selected, live seafood held in tanks until the order fires, soups double-boiled, dim sum made for lunch service.
Founding Partner
Lawrence Koo
His family has owned and operated Causeway Bay’s West Villa Restaurant since the 1980s.
Executive Chef
David Cheung
Thirty-plus years in Hong Kong and China’s premier kitchens — West Villa and Michelin-starred Lei Garden.
大哥叉燒 · The char siu lineage
The clearest proof is on the carving board. West Villa’s “Big Brother” char siu made the family name in Causeway Bay; XIÙ’s honey-glazed prime cut char siu is the same line of work, carried on in Greenhills.
參The House
Three floors, five rooms
The room is built from lattice woodwork, silk, and glass — around 230 seats across three dining floors, with a falling-leaves art installation overhead.
Five private rooms carry hand-painted artwork in blue and gold, each set for the occasions this house was made for: birthdays, banquets, lauriat.
肆In the Press
On the record
“The best fine dining restaurant in the Philippines today.”
“Delicious Cantonese specialities. Reservations are strongly advised.”
“The standalone Cantonese fine-diner among the hotel greats.”
Further coverage
- Travelling FoodieBest Chinese Restaurants in Manila, From Dim Sum to Peking Duck2025
- Metro.Style20 Best Chinese Restaurants, According to Experts2024
- Spot.phNothing beats having unlimited dim sum on a rainy day2022
- GMA NewsThe new must-try in Greenhills: Xiù Fine Cantonese Dining2016
- NolisoliThere's an eggplant dish even haters will love2017
- I WanderedXiù Fine Cantonese Dining in Greenhills, San Juan2017
★ 4.5 · 631 Googlereviews · Tatler Asia’s 17 Best Chinese Restaurants in the Philippines, 2025 — the standalone Cantonese fine-diner among the hotel dining rooms.
伍On Film
On camera since 2016
Food television and the vloggers have kept a table here from opening week onward. What they ordered, on the record.
- Dessertgurl.phCrispy pork belly BBQ combination, soy sauce chicken clay pot, truffle e-fu noodles2023
- AndeePeking duck three ways, Yangzhou fried rice, chilled mango sago2023
- Metro.Style — Sandy DazaStewed US beef finger, steamed lapu-lapu, wok-fried scallops with truffle, roasted suckling pig2021
- Happy TummyChar siu, har gow, xiao long bao, truffle mushroom buns2021
- Robert LongestSuckling pig with glutinous rice, poon chai, steamed crab with egg white2019
- GMA Pop TalkPremium Chinese restaurant food crawl2017
- RapplerFish maw almond soup, baked tiger lobster with cheese, typhoon-shelter crab2016