The Peak Lookout, Restaurant in Central and Western District, Hong Kong

The Peak Lookout is a single-storey restaurant in a 1901 stone building at Victoria Gap, with a red pitched roof, arched windows, black-and-white half-timbering on the gable and a visible chimney. Its open terrace looks over Aberdeen, Pok Fu Lam Country Park and the South China Sea.

The site served in 1888 as a rest place and workshop for the British engineers building the Peak Tram. In 1901 it passed to the government and became a shelter for public and private sedan chairs, completed in 1902 with blue stone walls, granite dressings and a tiled roof. From 1947 it operated as an open-air café; a 1973 demolition plan for a car park was dropped after public protest, and it was graded a Grade II historic building in 1981.

The name changed from Old Peak Café to The Peak Lookout in 2001. Inside, dim lighting and old photographs of life on the Peak from several generations ago are displayed, and much of the earlier interior character was kept. The building is a popular venue for weddings and private events.

The restaurant sits at Victoria Gap on Peak Road, next to The Peak Tower and The Peak Galleria, where the Peak Tram terminates. The tram from Central is the usual approach; taxis and buses also serve the Peak. The single-storey building has a raised outdoor terrace for al fresco dining, and the interior is dimly lit, with old photographs of Peak life on the walls.

The building's walls are of blue stone from the neighbourhood with granite dressings, and it was built solidly to defy typhoons. It may have used stone left over from the demolished Governor's Peak residence, Mountain Lodge. During the Japanese occupation (1941–1945), the former chair shelter is believed to have served as a police station.