Best Beijing Restaurants: 36 Places to Eat by Cuisine
Beijing's restaurant scene turns over fast and most lists never catch up. These are the best Beijing restaurants checked against the 2026 Michelin guide, hotel dining lists and dated 2024 to 2026 coverage, grouped by cuisine, with addresses.
Selina Chen 陈丽明 EN ⇄ 中文 · Restaurants Every list of the best Beijing restaurants goes stale the moment it is published. This one was checked again in October 2026, entry by entry, against the 2026 Michelin guide, the hotels’ own dining lists and dated 2024 to 2026 coverage. A venue with no current evidence of trading was cut, not kept on trust. What is left is 36 places, grouped by cuisine, Chinese first, with the address you need to find it and no phone numbers to go stale.
What a meal in Beijing costs
Beijing is a first-tier city and prices run roughly 20 to 35 percent above Xi’an or Chengdu. A casual local meal is ¥25 to ¥40 a head, about $4 to $6. A proper sit-down dinner is ¥60 to ¥120 ($9 to $17). The hotel dining rooms further down this page sit in the ¥200 to ¥800 bracket per person once wine is involved, and the starred tasting menus start where that bracket ends.
Peking duck runs on its own scale. In August 2026 a whole duck at Quanjude’s Hepingmen flagship was ¥288, and the 1864 heritage set ¥336. A bird feeds two or three, so call it ¥100 to ¥170 a head before anything else reaches the table. Nobody in Beijing pays one price for “dinner.”
The best Beijing restaurants for Chinese food
Beijing’s own cooking is roast duck, imperial-court dishes and the northern noodle and dumpling repertoire, plus every regional cuisine in the country, because the whole country moves here. The 2026 Michelin guide, released on 29 October 2025, lists 99 Beijing restaurants, 32 of them starred. Two hold three stars: Chao Shang Chao in Chaoyang and Xin Rong Ji on Xinyuan South Road. Six hold two: King’s Joy, Lamdre, Jingji, Lu Shang Lu, Shanghai Cuisine and Blackswan, a French room out in Shunyi that is listed with the international restaurants further down. Every starred Chinese room at three and two stars is below, followed by the duck houses, the dumpling and dim sum halls and the hotel dining rooms. Eighteen places in all.
Eat the city, not the hotel The duck house, the hutong stalls and the Great Wall are in three different directions. A private Beijing tour with an English-speaking guide strings them into one day and does the ordering for you.#1: Chao Shang Chao (Chaoyang)
Three Michelin stars in the 2026 guide, for Chaozhou cooking. Its Hong Kong-born chef, Zhang Yifeng, received the guide’s first Beijing Mentor Chef Award. The hallway is lined with dried fish maw, and the braised fish maw with 30-year-aged dried radish is the dish to order. Address: L406B, 4/F, CP Center, 20 Jinhe East Road, Chaoyang District.
#2: Xin Rong Ji (Xinyuan South Road)
Three Michelin stars in the 2026 guide. The flagship of a Taizhou chain, cooking fish from the East China Sea, and the only branch that serves its 28-day-old baby Peking duck, which has to be pre-ordered. Address: 1/F, East Tower, Genesis Beijing, 8 Xinyuan South Road, Chaoyang District.
#3: King’s Joy
Two Michelin stars in the 2026 Beijing guide, plus a Green Star, and entirely vegetarian, which surprises people who expect a restaurant beside the Lama Temple to be modest. Three lacto-ovo tasting menus of more than ten courses; book well ahead. Address: 2 Wudaoying Hutong, Dongcheng District.
#4: Lamdre
Promoted to two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide. Vegan cooking under a skylit pitched roof, by a chef who studied plant-based ingredients in Japan. The chargrilled Yunnan porcini and the house tofu are the signatures. Address: Room 04, 1/F, Block 14, Courtyard 4, Gongti North Road, Chaoyang District.
#5: Jingji
Two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide. Imperial-court cooking served as two set menus built on dried seafood and vegetables, with braised fish maw the dish people come for. Private rooms can have the menu customized. Address: 2/F, The Ritz-Carlton Beijing, 83A Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District.
#6: Lu Shang Lu
Two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide, for Shandong cooking: Confucian-mansion dishes, sea cucumber and live seafood brought in daily from the Jiaodong peninsula. The 45-day-old roast duck with caviar is the bridge between Shandong and Beijing. Address: 2/F, Tower 1, Sunshine Financial Center, 33 Jinghui Street, Chaoyang District.
#7: Shanghai Cuisine
Two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide (in Chinese, Wu Li Xiang). A Shanghainese kitchen team cooking the classics with ingredients from Jiangsu and Zhejiang that are hard to find in Beijing, plus Shanghai dim sum: xiao long bao and green qingtuan. Address: south side of Pacific Century Place, 2A Gongti North Road, Chaoyang District.
#8: Gastro Esthetics DaDong
One Michelin star in the 2026 guide. This is Dadong’s old Nanxincang flagship, rebranded as the chain’s most exclusive branch: 22-day-old ducks, the crisp-skin roast that changed how the dish is presented, and Japanese sea cucumber finished at the table. Address: 1-2/F, Nanxincang Business Tower, 22A Dongsishitiao, Dongcheng District.
#9: Quanjude (Hepingmen)
The 1864 name every guidebook prints, and the hanging-oven duck that made it. The Hepingmen flagship opened on 25 April 1979. In August 2026 a whole duck was ¥288 and the 1864 heritage set ¥336. Address: Hepingmen, Xicheng District.
#10: Siji Minfu (Dengshikou)
The mid-priced duck house locals actually recommend to visitors, and the queue proves it: on 4 October 2025 the ticket at Dengshikou read 354 tables ahead. Take a number early or eat at an off hour. Address: 32 Dengshikou West Street, Dongcheng District.
#11: Huajia Yiyuan (Hua’s Restaurant)
The courtyard flagship on Ghost Street, Beijing’s late-night eating strip, serving duck and Beijing dishes under painted beams. One of the restaurants the city government recommended for the 2026 Spring Festival. Address: 235 Dongzhimen Nei Dajie, Dongcheng District.
#12: Baoyuan Dumplings
A Michelin Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide. Dumplings with wrappers colored by fruit and vegetable juice, dozens of fillings and a Sichuan menu on the side, served here for more than 30 years. Pork and fennel is the order. Address: north side of Building 6, Maizidian Street, Chaoyang District.
#13: Jin Ding Xuan (Ditan)
The dim sum hall opposite Ditan Park, a short walk from the Lama Temple, with a menu long enough to lose an argument in. The chain has been shrinking: seven of its stores closed in the first half of 2026, but this one is among the three large flagships it kept. Address: Hepingli West Street, by Ditan Park, Dongcheng District.
#14: Celestial Court (St. Regis Beijing)
Cantonese in the St. Regis, with dishes from other regions and five private rooms, the sort of room built for a dinner where the conversation matters more than the photographs. Address: 21 Jianguomenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District.
#15: Horizon (Kerry Hotel Beijing)
Peking duck, Jing-Lu cooking (Beijing and Shandong) and seasonal dishes, in the middle of the CBD. Address: Kerry Hotel, 1 Guanghua Road, Chaoyang District.
#16: Wan Li (Renaissance Beijing Wangfujing)
The hotel’s Chinese restaurant, a short walk from the Forbidden City, serving seasonal Chinese dishes buffet-style. The easy booking if you are staying on Wangfujing. Address: 2/F, 57 Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District.
#17: The Garden Chinese Restaurant
The Renaissance Capital’s Chinese dining room, east of the CBD on the Third Ring, cooking Cantonese. Address: Renaissance Beijing Capital Hotel, 61 Dongsanhuan Middle Road, Chaoyang District.
#18: Haidilao Hot Pot
The chain that made its name on service rather than broth, and the easiest hot pot in the city for a first-timer. It ran 1,383 restaurants across China at the end of 2025. Address: branches across the city; search 海底捞 in your map app for the nearest.
International restaurants in Beijing
Steak, beer, weekend lunches, Japanese home cooking, curry and one French tasting menu, mostly in Sanlitun and the CBD, with one long drive out to Shunyi. If you are visiting China from the West and want a break from the wok, this is where it lives. The Japanese, American and Indian sections this page used to run have been merged here: of the 38 rooms they listed, ten came through the 2026 check, too few to carry three sections of their own. Eleven places, with the 2026 two-star Blackswan added.
#1: Blackswan (Shunyi)
Two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide, promoted that year. Chef Vianney Massot cooks modern French in a white dining room over a pond with swans on it; the wild turbot with two sauces is the signature. It sits out by the airport road, so it is a planned evening, not a walk-in. Address: 1/F, Luohong Art Museum, 89 Capital Airport Road, Shunyi District.
#2: Wolfgang’s Steakhouse
Listed in the 2026 Michelin guide. The New York steakhouse, with the Manhattan menu and USDA prime Angus dry-aged for at least 28 days. Address: 1/F, Space 8, Pacific Century Place, 2A Gongti North Road, Chaoyang District.
#3: Morton’s The Steakhouse
The Chicago steakhouse, imported whole: aged steaks and seafood in the main room, ten private suites for business dinners. Address: Regent Beijing, 99 Jinbao Street, Dongcheng District.
#4: Slow Boat Brewery
The Sanlitun brewpub is the flagship of a brewery that marked fifteen years in 2026 with five Beijing taprooms: three floors, a brewhouse, and a burger that made the Beijinger’s 2025 top sixteen. Address: 6 Sanlitun South Road, Chaoyang District.
#5: Great Leap Brewing (Xinzhong Jie)
One of the founding names of Beijing craft beer. Its Dongcheng brewpub on Xinzhong Jie, a few minutes from the Workers’ Stadium, does burgers and bar food alongside the house beers. Address: 1/F, Ziming Dasha, 12A Xinzhong Jie, Dongcheng District.
#6: Home Plate BBQ
American barbecue, pulled pork and rib tips, done by people who take smoke seriously, in the Gongti nightlife courtyard. Address: 106, 1/F, Building 10, Courtyard 4, Gongti North Road, Chaoyang District.
#7: Blue Frog (Solana)
Burgers and long happy hours in the Solana lakeside complex by Chaoyang Park, and an easy family lunch at the weekend. Address: A131, 1/F, Solana Blue Harbor, 6 Chaoyang Gongyuan Road, Chaoyang District.
#8: Wagas
Sandwiches, salads, grain bowls and coffee. The CBD lunch default when you want vegetables. Address: L108-L109, 1/F, Jindi Plaza, 91 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District.
#9: Keyaki (Pan Pacific Beijing)
Japanese in the Pan Pacific near Xidan, with produce flown in from Japan. Address: Pan Pacific Beijing, 2 Huayuan Street, Xicheng District.
#10: Suzuki Kitchen
Japanese home cooking in wood and plain ceramics, and a good table for one: the Suzuki meat patty, a single-serve beef sukiyaki pot, almond tofu. It was one of the first Beijing restaurants to go viral, and it has kept its prices sensible since. Address: 288-29 Dongzhimen Nei Dajie, Dongcheng District.
#11: Indian Kitchen
Curries and tandoor in a Sanlitun side alley, unglamorous and consistent, and the Indian kitchen the city government named in its 2025 guide to Beijing’s international food. Address: 2 Sanlitun North Alley, Chaoyang District.
Italian restaurants in Beijing
Italian is the strongest non-Asian cuisine in Beijing, partly because the luxury hotels compete on it. Prices are high by local standards and the pasta is usually worth it. Seven places.
#1: Il Ristorante Niko Romito
One Michelin star in the 2026 Beijing guide. The Bulgari hotel’s Italian dining room, under the name of a three-Michelin-star chef in Italy, all marble and Murano glass over a garden. Start with the vitello tonnato. Address: 1/F, Bulgari Hotel, Building 2, Courtyard 8, Xinyuan South Road, Chaoyang District.
#2: MIO
Listed in the 2026 Michelin guide. The Four Seasons’ Italian room, where a Milanese chef reworks Piedmont and Lombardy: vitello tonnato, agnolotti, tagliolini with lamb ragu. Address: 3/F, Four Seasons Hotel Beijing, 48 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District.
#3: Danieli’s
The St. Regis’ Italian room on the second floor, hand-painted and formal. Address: 2/F, The St. Regis Beijing, 21 Jianguomenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District.
#4: Fratelli Fresh
The Renaissance Capital’s Italian restaurant, with a deli of the same name for takeaway. Address: Renaissance Beijing Capital Hotel, 61 Dongsanhuan Middle Road, Chaoyang District.
#5: Casalingo
Pizza and seasonal Italian menus with a wine bar, in the JW Marriott Central. Address: JW Marriott Hotel Beijing Central, 18 Xuanwumenwai Street, Xicheng District.
#6: Prego
The Westin Financial Street’s Mediterranean restaurant and bar: regional home-style cooking and a business-lunch crowd. Address: The Westin Beijing Financial Street, 9B Financial Street, Xicheng District.
#7: Annie’s
The Beijing family-Italian chain, pasta and pizza without the hotel markup. The Wudaokou branch was on the city government’s October 2025 holiday dining list. Address: Dongyuan Building, 35 Chengfu Road, Wudaokou, Haidian District.
What changed on this list
Four Din Tai Fung branches were removed. The chain closed all fourteen of its north China stores by 31 October 2024, including eight in Beijing, after its twenty-year licensing arrangement expired. Its Shanghai and Guangzhou stores are unaffected, which is why the brand still appears on other Beijing lists.
Confirmed gone: Nobu Beijing, which no longer appears on Nobu’s own list of locations, and six hotel restaurants missing from their hotels’ current dining lists: Cepe at the Ritz-Carlton Financial Street, Barolo at the Ritz-Carlton Beijing, Nadaman at China World, Choy’s Seafood at the Marriott Northeast, and Miyabi and Bene at the Sheraton Grand Dongcheng. Earlier removals stand: Jing Yaa Tang, which went with The Opposite House when the hotel closed in June 2024; Opera Bombana, which shut in April 2024; Okra 1949 and 3 Little Pigs; and Let’s Burger at Nali Patio.
Everything else that dropped off went for want of evidence, not proof of closure. A venue stays only with a current outlet page, a Michelin listing, or a dated review or article from 2024 or later; thirty-four venues had none. Taj Pavilion is one of them: China Daily reported the business still trading in January 2025, but no current branch address could be confirmed. Four international all-day hotel buffets filed under Chinese, Japanese and American went too, because they serve none of those cuisines in particular. The 2026 three-star and two-star rooms were added, Blackswan among them.
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