Best Restaurants in China
33 Restaurants that clear the bar for quality, service, and English-friendly hospitality.
33 curated entries
Verified TrustDa Dong Roast Duck
Beijing · Restaurants
The most iconic contemporary Peking duck experience, with a crisp skin that snaps like glass.
Verified TrustSiji Minfu
Beijing · Restaurants
Beijing's favorite roast duck with the best seat in town: a window table overlooking the Forbidden City moat.
Verified TrustBai Jia Da Zao
Beijing · Restaurants
Dine inside a Qing prince's mansion where staff bow in court costume and address you as 'Your Highness'.
Verified TrustTRB Hutong
Beijing · Restaurants
Modern European fine dining inside a converted Ming dynasty temple - one of Beijing's great rooms.
Verified TrustFu He Hui
Shanghai · Restaurants
A Michelin-starred vegetarian tasting menu that treats vegetables with the gravity of a tasting menu.
Verified TrustLost Heaven
Shanghai · Restaurants
Yunnan's spice, smoke, and ritual in a dark-wood French Concession mansion that feels like a film set.
Verified TrustLao Sun Jia
Xi'an · Restaurants
A century-old institution serving the definitive Xi'an lamb paomo - bread torn, broth poured.
Verified TrustYu's Family Kitchen
Chengdu · Restaurants
Chef Yu Bo's Michelin-starred private kitchen, where Sichuan spice becomes haute cuisine.
Verified TrustWenshu Monastery Vegetarian
Chengdu · Restaurants
A full vegetarian banquet inside a working Buddhist monastery's own kitchen.
Verified TrustJin Sha
Hangzhou · Restaurants
Michelin-starred Zhejiang cuisine in a lakeside garden pavilion at the Four Seasons.
Verified TrustLou Wai Lou
Hangzhou · Restaurants
The lakeside restaurant that has served West Lake's signature dishes since 1848.
Verified TrustYantian Seafood Street
Shenzhen · Restaurants
A kilometer of seafood restaurants overlooking Yantian harbor, where you pick your catch live from the tanks.
Verified TrustPei Jie Hotpot
Chongqing · Restaurants
Chongqing's most-loved hotpot: a bubbling cauldron of numbing spice that defines the city.
Verified TrustTao Tao Ju
Guangzhou · Restaurants
A 140-year-old Cantonese institution where dim sum is still a morning ritual.
Verified TrustPanxi Restaurant
Guangzhou · Restaurants
A 1947 garden restaurant on Liwan Lake, its pavilions floating over lotus and goldfish.
Verified TrustHua Mei Restaurant
Harbin · Restaurants
A 1925 Russian restaurant that tastes like Harbin's story: China's old Russian quarter, plated.
Verified TrustOld Chang Chun Bing
Harbin · Restaurants
Thin pancakes rolled around Dongbei's hearty fillings - the north's answer to the burrito.
Verified TrustJian Xin Yuan
Kunming · Restaurants
The century-old home of guoqiao mixian: Yunnan's famous crossing-the-bridge rice noodles.
Verified TrustFirst Market Seafood
Sanya · Restaurants
Buy it live, cook it your way: Sanya's legendary seafood market-and-dinner ritual.
Verified TrustNanjing Impressions
Nanjing · Restaurants
A lively recreation of an old Nanjing tea house, serving Jiangsu classics to packed crowds.
Verified TrustHan Fu Yuan Salted Duck
Nanjing · Restaurants
The 1866 delicatessen that made Nanjing salted duck a national obsession.
Verified TrustSong He Lou
Suzhou · Restaurants
A Suzhou institution since 1757, home of the legendary squirrel-shaped mandarin fish.
Verified TrustDeyue Lou
Suzhou · Restaurants
A Suzhou restaurant so old it predates the Qing dynasty - 450 years of Jiangsu cooking.
Verified TrustYunxiao Road Seafood
Qingdao · Restaurants
Qingdao's beer-and-seafood street: shellfish by the kilo, washed down with draught straight from the brewery.
Verified TrustGoubuli Baozi
Tianjin · Restaurants
Tianjin's most famous steamed buns - eighteen folds per bun, and a story to match.
Verified TrustEighteenth Street Mahua
Tianjin · Restaurants
The famously twisted fried dough of Tianjin - a snack so iconic it has its own street name.
Verified TrustZeng Cuo An Food Street
Xiamen · Restaurants
A fishing village turned into Xiamen's most electric food street, steps from the beach.
Verified TrustTujia Three-Pot
Zhangjiajie · Restaurants
Zhangjiajie's famous 'three-pot' - a bubbling cauldron of pork, tofu, and vegetables, the Tujia way.
Verified TrustChun Ji Roast Goose
Guilin · Restaurants
Guilin's most-loved roast goose - lacquered skin, sweet dipping sauce, and a dining room always full.
Verified TrustShunfeng Villa
Shunde · Restaurants
The Cantonese private kitchen that put Shunde on the culinary map: slow-cooked, double-boiled, and unapologetically luxurious.
Verified TrustQuanzhou Ginger Duck
Quanzhou · Restaurants
The dish that defines Quanzhou: duck braised with a mountain of ginger in a clay pot until it falls apart.
Verified TrustNingbo Old Bund
Ningbo · Restaurants
The Bund that predates Shanghai's - a century of waterfront, now Ningbo's best dinner address.
Verified TrustDaji Donkey Meat Noodles
Dunhuang · Restaurants
Dunhuang's signature dish: hand-pulled yellow noodles under slow-braised donkey meat and a garlicky sauce.