Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Lijiang from the En Primeur Club guide.
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Naxi restaurants in Lijiang Ancient Town serve roast meat, wild mushroom hotpot and grilled fish. Charm serves Thai and broader Southeast Asian dishes in Old Town District.
This restaurant serves Naxi Yunnan cuisine in Lijiang Ancient Town. The restaurant has a minimal wine program and serves its menu a la carte, with signature dishes including Naxi roast meat and wild mushroom hotpot.
This Naxi restaurant in Lijiang Ancient Town serves an a la carte menu. Its cooking draws on ingredients and techniques specific to the Naxi ethnic minority of Yunnan. Grilled fish has crisp skin and tender flesh.
Charm is a contemporary restaurant inside a hotel lobby in Old Town District. It has a standard wine program and serves Thai and broader Southeast Asian dishes a la carte, using fresh herbs and spices.
Lijiang’s hotel scene is closely tied to its old-town neighbourhoods. These properties frame meals and stays through Naxi architecture, mountain views, and heritage settings.
Amandayan in Dayan Old Town holds Michelin 1 Key for 2026. Its 35 suites use traditional Naxi architecture and overlook Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The property has a restaurant serving mountain-foraged Yunnan and Cantonese fare and a traditional tea house.
InterContinental Lijiang Ancient Town Resort holds Michelin 1 Key for 2026. It is the only international five-star village resort in Lijiang Ancient Town, combining traditional Naxi architecture with gardens and panoramic views of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
Banyan Tree Lijiang in Shuhe holds Michelin Selected for 2025. The property offers villas inspired by traditional Naxi architecture, with private courtyards and hot tubs at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
Lijiang has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. The citywide selection includes 6 restaurants, covering Naxi cuisine, Naxi Yunnan cuisine, Thai and Southeast Asian hotel cooking, and Yunnan and Nakhi Chinese fine dining.
Lijiang Ancient Town and Old Town District matter most for dining in our guide. Lijiang Ancient Town holds the clearest Naxi restaurant cluster, while Old Town District adds hotel dining and broader Southeast Asian cooking.
Dayan Old Town has Amandayan’s restaurant and tea house; Old Town District has Charm’s Thai and Southeast Asian hotel restaurant. Other hotels in our guide include InterContinental Lijiang Ancient Town Resort in Lijiang Ancient Town, Banyan Tree Lijiang in Shuhe, Pullman Lijiang Resort and Spa in Shuhe Ancient Town, and Hylla Vintage Hotel in Yanjiao Village, Baisha. Hotel Indigo Lijiang Ancient Town is in Old Town District.
Amandayan and InterContinental Lijiang Ancient Town Resort each hold Michelin 1 Key for 2026. Hotel Indigo Lijiang Ancient Town, Banyan Tree Lijiang and Pullman Lijiang Resort and Spa each hold Michelin Selected for 2025.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Charm sits inside a hotel lobby in Lijiang’s Gucheng District, a location that places it between old-town tourism and the city’s quieter hospitality circuit. With few public signals on chef, pricing, awards, or format, the useful reading is contextual: treat it as part of Lijiang’s broader question of how hotel dining interprets local sourcing without turning Naxi and Yunnan references into souvenir shorthand.
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In Lijiang's Old Town, 小锅巴纳西美食 represents a strand of Yunnan dining built around Naxi culinary tradition, the kind of cooking that draws its character from highland ingredients and centuries of ethnic minority foodways rather than from chef reputation or tasting-menu format. For travellers moving through one of China's most historically layered cities, it offers a grounded alternative to the tourist-facing restaurants that now dominate the old quarter.
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纳西靓菜坊 sits inside Lijiang's Old Town, where Naxi culinary traditions have been shaped by centuries of trade along the Tea Horse Road. The kitchen draws on ingredients and techniques specific to the Naxi ethnic minority of Yunnan, making it a reference point for visitors wanting to move beyond generic Yunnan fare and engage with the region's more specific food culture.
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Positioned above Lijiang's UNESCO-listed Old Town on Lion Hill, Amandayan translates the Nakhi architectural tradition into 35 all-suite accommodations built around calm courtyards with Yunnan pine and elm detailing. At $744 per night, it sits at the upper tier of Yunnan luxury, pairing Jade Dragon Snow Mountain views with a restaurant focused on mountain-foraged Yunnan and Cantonese fare, a traditional tea house, and a wellness suite grounded in Chinese medicinal practice.
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A Leading Hotels of the World member positioned in Lijiang's Gucheng District, Hylla Vintage Hotel occupies the upper tier of the ancient town's accommodation scene. Membership in that collection signals peer-set alignment with properties defined by architectural integrity and curated service rather than chain scale. Booking through Leading Hotels of the World channels is one reliable access point.
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A MICHELIN Selected property in Shuhe, Lijiang's quieter historic quarter, Banyan Tree Lijiang sits within the brand's wider China portfolio as a villa-format retreat shaped by the surrounding Naxi cultural context. The setting, at the edge of the old town with Jade Dragon Snow Mountain as a backdrop, positions it in a distinct tier among Lijiang's premium accommodation options.
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Named Yunnan's Leading Boutique Hotel at the 2025 World Travel Awards, Hotel Indigo Lijiang Ancient Town occupies the Gucheng District, where cobblestone lanes and Naxi architecture set the scene. The property sits within the UNESCO-listed old town, placing guests inside one of Yunnan's most historically layered urban environments rather than at its edge.
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Carrying a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction, InterContinental Lijiang Ancient Town Resort sits at the edge of Lijiang's UNESCO-listed old town, where Naxi timber architecture meets international hotel infrastructure. The property positions itself in the upper tier of Lijiang's international-brand hotels, offering a recognisable service framework in a city where boutique guesthouses and global chains occupy different price and format brackets.
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Michelin Selected for 2025, Pullman Lijiang Resort and Spa sits at the Shuhe entrance road, positioning it between the UNESCO-listed ancient town and the quieter Shuhe district. The resort format places it in a different competitive tier from Lijiang's intimate boutique properties, trading seclusion for scale and the infrastructure of a full-service international brand.
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