After the release of our recent Top 5 Vegetarian Restaurants list, the enthusiastic response made us realise that diners with special needs, whether it is for meat-free dishes or gluten-free, are often neglected on fine dining websites. Therefore, we will be launching a series of new Top 5s, which will hopefully help fill this void. And to kick-off, Asia Tatler Dining presents the top five restaurants and bakeries to serve the best egg-free cakes in town.

Harbourside Café

The Harbourside Café at the InterContinental Hong Kong in Tsim Sha Tsui offers a unique and delicious egg-free pistachio cake. Using an authentic recipe from an Indian chef, the egg-free sponge cake has a rich pistachio colour and flavour which makes it a wonderful alternative to ordinary cakes. Apart from the sought-after pistachio cake, the Harbourside Café also offers other egg-free cakes in flavours that include, chocolate, vanilla and coffee. Two-days pre-ordering is required.

G/F, InterContinental Hong Kong, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Tel +852 2313-2323.

Ms B's Cakery

Opened by Sevva's Bonnie Gokson this year with another outlet coming at the end of November in Tai Hang, the chic and modern Ms B's offers an egg-free cake called The Nutcase, which consists of assorted caramel glazed nuts encased in an oats and sesame cookie crust. Apart from the egg-free Nutcase, Ms B's also offers gluten-free and sugar-free cakes, macaroons and cookies for the health-conscious and weight-watchers.

39 Gough Street, Central. Tel: +852 -2815-0053.

Island Gourmet

Run by chef de patisserie Alain Guillet, the Island Gourmet cake shop at the Island Shangri-la in Admiralty, presents customers with its famous egg-free Frou-Frou. One of the best sellers at the cake shop, Frou-frou is a dark chocolate mousse cake made with macaron biscuits and crispy praline. Each day, Island Gourmet sells roughly six whole Frou-frou cakes and 20 smaller individualised portions. As such, two-days ordering in advanced is advised.

Island Shangri-La, Level 5 Pacific Place, Supreme Court Road, Central. Tel: +852 2820-8550.

The Peninsula Boutique

Another delight for chocolate lovers is the egg-free chocolate cake at The Peninsula Boutique inside the Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. This tempting chocolate truffle cake uses chocolate crumble as base, rather than the usual egg-filled sponge. The cake is filled with chocolate mousse and chocolate biscuit and finished off with chocolate glaze.

Shop 7-9, The Peninsula Hong Kong, 19-21 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Tel:+852 2920-2888.

Cake-A-Licious

Nestled in amongst the bustling streets in Central, Cake-A-Licious offers customers a wider selection of egg-free cakes in terms of both flavours and styles. In any shape or form you fancy, Cake-A-Licious provides its moist egg-free cakes in flavours such as strawberry, lemon, vanilla, chocolate and marble. Covered with buttercream icing, the cakes can be sculpted into different shapes for different occasions and events. Such personalised and bespoke attention takes time, so make sure to order your egg-free cakes two weeks in advance.

Lower Ground Floor 11 Lyndhurst Terrace. Central. Tel: +852 2815-2218.