Originally Posted by
christep
I'm open to being corrected because I've only been to a few of the restaurants in the top hotels, but I would be very surprised if there are any that require a tie. Of the Peninsula restaurants only Gaddi's specifies a jacket for dinner; everywhere else is 'smart casual" - to me that doesn't require a jacket or a tie.
Agreed, leave the tie at home. Take a jacket if you really want too (but it is hot and a little thundery at the moment), if you don't have one everywhere that requires one will happily provide a reasonably close fitting one.