Best Tasting Menus in Beijing

Amico BJ

A Michelin Plate and Black Pearl 1 Diamond holder in Chaoyang, Amico BJ sits within Beijing's growing tier of European Contemporary restaurants that treat ingredient sourcing as the central editorial argument of their menus. The kitchen operates at the ¥¥¥ price point, positioning it below the city's starred European rooms but above casual Western dining. Recognition across two consecutive Michelin cycles signals consistent execution rather than a single standout year.

AZUR by Mauro Colagreco

Deep wine list

Azur by Mauro Colagreco brings French fine dining to Beijing's Haidian District, operating from the Hotel on Zizhuyuan Road. Under Chef Deepak Bhattari, the restaurant has appeared in Opinionated About Dining's Asia rankings three consecutive years, reaching #432 in 2024. It occupies a specific tier in Beijing's international dining scene, distinct from the city's Michelin-starred French contemporary options.

Brasserie 1893

Brasserie 1893 brings French contemporary cooking to Beijing's Dongcheng district, holding a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. Set along Jinyu Hutong, it occupies a tier where European technique meets the particular rhythms of dining in the Chinese capital, a reference point for French-leaning meals in a city whose fine dining map has grown considerably more complex.

Chao Shang Chao

Chao Shang Chao brings Chaoshan and Teochew cooking into Beijing’s high-end regional Chinese conversation, with chef Cheung Yat Fung attached and a No. 100 placement on the 2026 OAD Top Restaurants in Asia list. The draw is not novelty but specificity: a southern coastal tradition defined by clarity, seafood discipline, broths, braises, and restrained seasoning, set against a capital-city dining scene often dominated by northern, Cantonese, and Sichuan reference points.

Chao Shang Chao (Chaoyang)

3 Michelin stars · Deep wine list

One of only two Chaozhou restaurants in mainland China to hold three Michelin stars, Chao Shang Chao in Beijing's Chaoyang district operates at the narrow intersection of classical Teochew technique and contemporary refinement. Under Executive Chef Yat Fung Cheung, the kitchen holds a 2026 La Liste ranking of 75 points, placing it firmly among China's most recognised fine-dining addresses.

Chef 1996

Private rooms, mist-laced gardens, and camphor wood–smoked duck define Chef 1996 in Beijing—a Michelin-recognized sanctuary for refined Chinese cuisine with modern polish and sommelier-led pairings.

Family Li Imperial Cuisine

Family Li Imperial Cuisine on Jinbao Street revives the banquet traditions of Qing Dynasty court cooking, applying techniques that predate modern restaurant culture by centuries. The kitchen has held a position on the Opinionated About Dining Asia rankings for three consecutive years through 2025. For Beijing diners interested in the roots of Chinese fine dining, this address sits in a category largely to itself.

Gastro Esthetics at DaDong（Beijing Nanxincang Branch）

Gastro Esthetics at DaDong（Beijing Nanxincang Branch） belongs to Beijing’s polished Chinese dining tier, where ingredient selection and presentation carry as much weight as technique. Its Black Pearl Restaurant Guide 2026 two-diamond recognition places it in a serious domestic awards bracket, useful for travellers weighing Beijing’s formal dining rooms against more casual roast-duck and regional restaurants.

Giada Garden

1 Michelin star · Deep wine list

Giada Garden brings Northern Italian cooking to Chaoyang's Qihao Beijing East Tower under the aesthetic direction of a Milanese fashion house, earning a Michelin star in 2024. The menu centres on regional classics: veal Milanese, Piedmontese beef brasato, hand-made agnolotti, and a wine list that draws from every Italian region. At ¥¥¥¥, the set menu is the format to follow.

Hong 0871

In Dongcheng's hutong network, Hong 0871 brings the cooking of Yunnan province to Beijing at a price point that sits well below its award-tier peers. A 2025 Michelin Plate and Black Pearl 1 Diamond recognition confirm the kitchen's credentials without the premium pricing those signals usually imply. For diners tracking value against quality in the capital's competitive Chinese regional scene, this is a useful reference point.

Huai Xiang Guo Se

Huai Xiang Guo Se sits in Dongcheng's Xiangerhutong neighbourhood, carrying consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 for its Huaiyang cooking. At the ¥¥¥ price point, it occupies a mid-premium tier among Beijing's recognised regional Chinese restaurants, making it a considered choice for diners seeking the Yangtze Delta culinary tradition away from the capital's dominant northern repertoire.

In Love (Gongti East Road)

The bighead carp fish head, sourced daily from Zhejiang's Qiandao Lake, is the pre-order that regulars know to place at booking.

Jing

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list

Jing sits inside the Peninsula Beijing on Jinyu Hutong, bringing Michelin-starred French Contemporary cooking with a Basque accent to one of the capital's most storied hotel addresses. Chef William Mahi's tasting menu moves through langoustine, spider crab, and squid before landing on the now-familiar Basque cheesecake, all backed by a 405-label wine list weighted toward France and California. A Black Pearl Diamond and OAD Asia ranking confirm its standing among Beijing's serious Western dining addresses.

Jingji

2 Michelin stars

Jingji holds two Michelin stars in consecutive years (2024 and 2025) and a La Liste score of 78 points, placing it among Beijing's most decorated Beijing Cuisine tables. Located inside the Peninsula Hotel on Jinyu Hutong in Dongcheng, the restaurant operates at the ¥¥¥¥ tier under chef Eric Francou.

JINGJI Aristocrat Cuisine by Rong

JINGJI Aristocrat Cuisine by Rong belongs to Beijing’s formal Chinese dining tier, where ingredient provenance and banquet grammar matter more than novelty. Its Black Pearl Restaurant Guide 2026 three-diamond recognition gives the room a clear credential in China’s domestic luxury dining hierarchy, especially for travelers interested in how regional sourcing is translated into a high-end capital-city setting.

King's Joy

2 Michelin stars

King's Joy holds two Michelin stars and a Green Star in Beijing's Dongcheng district, placing it among China's most decorated plant-based restaurants. Operating from a bamboo-shaded hutong courtyard near the Imperial Academy, it works entirely within a vegetarian format, with mushrooms carrying particular weight across a seasonally driven menu. At the ¥¥¥¥ price tier, it sits alongside Beijing's most serious fine-dining addresses.

L. Bodhi (Guanghua Road)

Set inside Beijing's 798 Art District, L. Bodhi (Guanghua Road) is a premium vegetarian restaurant that has held consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. The address alone, inside one of Asia's most significant contemporary art zones, signals something deliberate about its positioning.

La Chansonniére

La Chansonniére sits on Gongti West Road in Beijing's Sanlitun district, holding a 2025 Black Pearl 1 Diamond award, the Chinese dining guide's recognition of consistent quality at a defined tier. The address places it inside one of the capital's most concentrated pockets of international dining, where French-inflected and cross-cultural concepts compete for a well-travelled, cost-indifferent clientele.

Lamdre

2 Michelin stars

Beijing’s plant-based fine dining has moved beyond temple-restaurant restraint and wellness shorthand.

Les Morilles

A Michelin Plate and Black Pearl 1 Diamond-recognised French Contemporary restaurant in Dongcheng, Les Morilles occupies a measured position within Beijing's upscale European dining tier. Seasonal sourcing and market-responsive cooking place it alongside the city's more considered French tables, with recognition sustained across 2024 and 2025 awards cycles. Priced at the ¥¥¥ level, it sits in a competitive bracket that rewards serious intent over spectacle.

Ling Long

Located inside the Zhaolong Hotel in Chaoyang, Ling Long holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond rating for 2025, placing it among Beijing's credentialed fine dining addresses. The kitchen works at the intersection of Chinese ingredients and internationally trained technique, a format that has become one of the more interesting fault lines in contemporary Beijing dining. For visitors tracking award-recognised restaurants in the capital, it belongs on the shortlist alongside the city's other decorated tables.

Lu Shang Lu

2 Michelin stars

Lu Shang Lu holds two Michelin stars in both 2024 and 2025, placing it among the more critically recognised Shandong restaurants operating anywhere in China. Located in Beijing's Haidian District, the restaurant brings classical Lu cuisine, China's oldest and most formative regional cooking tradition, into a fine-dining register that the city's highest-tier restaurant circuit has come to take seriously.

Maison Flo

Maison Flo holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) and operates within Chaoyang's dense international dining corridor at Xiaoyun Road. The kitchen works a French repertoire at a mid-premium price point that sits a tier below Beijing's starred French tables. For diners choosing between European cuisine and the capital's expanding Chinese fine-dining scene, Maison Flo occupies a clear and consistent position.

Mandarin Grill

Deep wine list

A Michelin Plate-recognised meats and grills destination on Wangfujing West Street, Mandarin Grill occupies the premium end of Beijing's open-fire dining tier. Holding consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, it positions firmly within the city's small cohort of high-end grill-focused restaurants where sourcing and technique carry the editorial argument. Price range sits at the summit bracket for Beijing dining.

Mio

At the summit end of Beijing's international dining tier, Mio sits inside the Four Seasons on Xiaoyun Road with a 2025 Michelin Plate, a Black Pearl Diamond, and a crowd of embassy staff, executives, and media creatives to match. The Southern Italian menu runs from charcuterie and oysters to lobster pasta and Wagyu bolognese, with a weekday business lunch format that makes the room accessible at both pace and price.

Old Tower

Old Tower brings Beijing’s fine-dining conversation into a sharper pescatarian register, using Chinese and Thai ingredients through a European-Chinese lens. In Taikoo Li Sanlitun, chef Talib Hudda’s new room has already earned a 2026 Opinionated About Dining Asia Recommended listing, with a menu that treats seafood, rural Chinese traditions, and French technique as working materials rather than decoration.

Opera Bombana

Deep wine list

Opera Bombana brings Italian cooking rooted in DOP-certified products and artisan provenance to Beijing's Chaoyang district, where it has held Opinionated About Dining recognition across three consecutive years. Chef Andrea Susto leads a kitchen that positions itself against the capital's growing tier of serious European addresses. Open daily from 10:30 am, the restaurant sits on Dongdaqiao Road in one of Beijing's most internationally active neighbourhoods.

Qu Lang Yuan

A Michelin Plate and Black Pearl 1 Diamond recipient in consecutive years, Qu Lang Yuan occupies a Dongcheng hutong address and operates within Beijing's emerging tier of innovative Chinese restaurants. Priced at ¥¥¥, it sits one band below the city's most expensive fine-dining counters, offering a point of entry into the capital's creative Chinese cooking conversation without the full premium of its heavier-awarded neighbours.

Refer

Beijing's Nordic dining scene is thin, which makes Refer's presence on Guijie Street all the more pointed. Ranked #126 on the 2024 Opinionated About Dining Asia list, the restaurant applies Nordic tasting-menu discipline to one of China's most tradition-heavy food cities. Chef Talib Hudda's counter sits at an intersection that few Beijing restaurants occupy: Scandinavian technique, local sourcing context, and genuine critical recognition.

Rive Gauche

Deep wine list

Rive Gauche places French contemporary cooking inside Beijing’s hotel-dining circuit, with a Michelin Plate in 2024 and 2025 and a ¥¥¥ price tier that puts it among the city’s polished mid-luxury rooms. Its sharper point is regional: classic French technique is used as a frame for southwestern Chinese flavor, a useful lens on how Beijing now absorbs imported formats without treating them as static replicas.

Sushi Fujimoto

Sushi Fujimoto holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025) and occupies a hutong address in Dongcheng, placing Beijing's Japanese counter dining inside one of the capital's most historically layered neighbourhoods. The restaurant represents a strand of the city's premium dining scene that looks outward, to Japanese sourcing traditions and omakase format discipline, while operating within a distinctly local context.

Sushi Ryu

Sushi Ryu holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025) in Beijing's Wudaokou district, placing it among a small tier of Japanese counter-dining addresses the city's recognition guides consider award-worthy. Located on Chengfu Road in Haidian, it operates in a neighbourhood better known for universities than omakase, which makes its critical standing more pointed. For precision Japanese dining outside the central CBD cluster, it represents a deliberate alternative.

SUSHI ZEN

Sushi Zen holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025) and occupies a third-floor address on Qianmen Street in Beijing's Dongcheng district, where Japanese omakase ritual meets one of China's most historically layered dining corridors. For those tracking where serious Japanese counter culture has taken root in the capital, this address deserves attention.

The Georg

1 Michelin star

The Georg holds a Michelin star and a Black Pearl Diamond in a three-storey hutong complex that doubles as an art gallery, making it one of Beijing's more architecturally considered fine-dining addresses. The kitchen runs Nordic-inflected European Contemporary cuisine, with a single tasting menu at dinner anchored by pickled, smoked, and cured techniques. For a city whose fine-dining scene skews heavily toward Chinese regional traditions, it occupies a distinct niche.

Top Feast (East Chang'an Street)

A Michelin Plate-recognised Cantonese address on East Chang'an Street, Top Feast operates at the upper end of Beijing's Cantonese dining tier, where the city's appetite for southern roasting traditions meets the formality of the capital's historic commercial corridor.

TRB - Temple Restaurant Beijing

1 Michelin star · Deep wine list

Set within the hushed courtyards of a 600-year-old temple complex, TRB - Temple Restaurant Beijing marries contemporary European cuisine with the serene grandeur of imperial Beijing. Expect exquisitely plated seasonal dishes, silk-smooth service, and a cellar of rare, judiciously chosen wines—all delivered with quiet confidence and well-suited poise. For informed travelers and residents alike, TRB offers a deeply polished dining experience where time-honored history and modern culinary artistry meet in elegant harmony.

Xiang Shang Xiang (Jinhe East Road)

A Michelin Plate-recognised Hunanese restaurant in Beijing's Chaoyang district, Xiang Shang Xiang on Jinhe East Road holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, placing it among the city's more consistent regional Chinese addresses. Priced in the mid-range bracket for its neighbourhood, it represents the kind of ingredient-led Hunanese cooking that travels well from its home province without losing its edge.

Xin Rong Ji (Financial District)

Xin Rong Ji's Financial District outpost brings Taizhou cuisine to one of Beijing's most polished dining corridors, earning a place on the Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in Asia list at #71 in 2025. The kitchen focuses on the seafood-forward traditions of coastal Zhejiang, a regional style that remains comparatively rare in a capital dominated by northern and Sichuan cooking. For serious diners, the wine program deserves as much attention as the menu.

Yan Garden by Chef Fei

Set within a restored siheyuan in Dongcheng's alley network, Yan Garden by Chef Fei brings refined Chaoshan cooking to one of Beijing's most architecturally distinctive dining rooms. A century-old toon tree anchors the courtyard, and the kitchen's focus on premium hometown ingredients produces dishes like tableside-prepared fish maw and boneless marinated goose web. It occupies a specific niche: regional southern Chinese cuisine in a northern imperial-city setting.

Zijin Mansion

1 Michelin star · Deep wine list

A Michelin-starred Cantonese address in Chaoyang, Zijin Mansion is dressed in hand-embroidered orange fabric rather than the expected lacquer-and-gilt formula. The Hakkanese chef works within Cantonese tradition while folding in regional touches, most notably a braised pork belly rib dish built around rose myrtle fruit wine from his home county. At ¥¥¥ pricing, it sits at a more approachable tier than Beijing's top Cantonese competitors.