Online grocery store Feather & Bone has opened a flagship store in Clearwater Bay, offering international specialty food products such as meat, alcohol, cheese, coffee and chocolate.
This adds to Feather & Bone’s two other Hong Kong outlets, in Central and Happy Valley.
“What we want to be is a friendly local grocer. You know, people will come in every week, and we know their name, we know what they like and we can recommend products based on what they’ve liked in the past,” says GM Mark Chan, who sources the group’s products.
A feature of the flagship store is that customers can drink a cup of locally roasted Kim & Co coffee along with a danish or muffin as they shop, reports Honeycombers.
There is also an eight-seat counter where wine is served along with a cheese board and charcuterie platter with preserves and pickles.
The flagship’s butchery offers ethically sourced meat, such as Australian beef, free-range pork and lamb, poultry and charcuterie.
“A lot of the products at Feather & Bone are sourced from Australia as a couple of the owners are actually from there,” says Chan, noting that company representatives even visit the farms to see how they work.
With a background as a chef – he once worked for Gordon Ramsay – Chan was at London’s La Fromagerie before joining Feather & Bone.
Products at Feather & Bone include Chapon Tablette Noir dark chocolate from Madagascar, Mr Organic Veg Amore Tofu Sauce and Rodolphe Le Meunier St Maure de Touraine goat’s cheese.