Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Quanzhou from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Quanzhou
Quanzhou’s upper end is compact, with seafood-led rooms, modern Fujian cooking, and the city’s only Michelin-starred restaurant in Fengze.
Fengze restaurant built around live seafood in three-tier glass tanks at the entrance, where diners choose the catch and the cooking method. It holds a Michelin 1 Star in 2026 and Black Pearl 1 Diamond recognition in 2025 and 2026, with a wine list and family-style service.
Licheng restaurant for contemporary Chinese seafood, with a Black Pearl 1 Diamond rating in 2025 and a Michelin Plate in 2026. The kitchen works with local seasonal ingredients and a pre-order Buddha jumps over the wall built from abalone, sea cucumber, and fish maw.
Quanzhou restaurant for premium Fujian fine dining, with Black Pearl 1 Diamond recognition in 2026. It offers a la carte, family style, and set menu formats, plus a dedicated tea-tasting area. The cooking focuses on seafood, broths, soups, and the city’s port-side Fujian style.
These restaurants span Licheng and Licheng District, with Bib Gourmand kitchens focused on braised duck, noodles, and home-style Fujian cooking.
Licheng restaurant that began as a snack stall in 1984 and now serves three generations of Minnan home cooking. It has a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Braised duck in rice wine and ginger is central to the kitchen’s identity.
Licheng District braised-duck specialist with rows of claypots at the entrance and a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The menu stays rooted in Minnan home cooking, with free-range chicken, Silkie chicken, and stir-fried duck blood curd with chives alongside the signature duck.
Licheng noodle institution known for mee sua gou, a wheat vermicelli soup with a porridge-like texture. It has Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Toppings include vinegar pork, oyster, and sautéed pork liver.
Licheng and Fengze hold many of the places in our guide. Licheng includes several of the city’s Bib Gourmand duck houses and noodle shops, while Fengze includes live-seafood and beef specialists. Those two neighbourhoods account for much of the recognised dining we publish in Quanzhou.
Quanzhou has 1 Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide. That place is Qing You Yu in Fengze, which also holds Black Pearl 1 Diamond recognition in 2025 and 2026. The rest of the city’s recognised dining in our guide is built around Plates and Bib Gourmands.
Lao A Bo and Yueyan · Premium Fujian Cuisine both offer tasting-menu or set-menu dining in Quanzhou. Lao A Bo has a tasting menu and a la carte, and Yueyan offers a set menu alongside a la carte and family style.
None of the venues in our Quanzhou guide list Wine Spectator awards. wine lists appear at Qing You Yu, Lao A Bo, A Qiu Niu Pai (Huxin Street), and 绿å²æµ·é²é 楼, while standard programs appear at Antstory, Nan Qi Lou 1924, Zayton Courtyard (Licheng), and Yueyan · Premium Fujian Cuisine.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Qing You Yu sits in Quanzhou's Fengze District and earns both a 2025 Michelin Plate and a Black Pearl 1 Diamond for its live-seafood format. There is no printed menu: diners select from three-tier fish tanks at the entrance, then specify their preferred cooking method. At the ¥¥¥ price point, it represents Fujian seafood cooking at a serious, recognised level.
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A Qiu Niu Pai on Huxin Street has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand in consecutive years, serving a Fujianese interpretation of beef steak that bears no resemblance to its Western counterpart. The kitchen braises veal from yellow cow in curry spices until the meat reaches a near-molten texture, anchored by double-boiled oxtail soup with gelatinous depth. Over four decades, the red-wood interior has remained unchanged.
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Operating from a historic three-storey red brick villa in Jinjiang since 2018, Antstory holds a Michelin Plate (2025) for its approach to Fujian cooking: traditional recipes reframed through modern technique, house-made sauces, and regional ingredients. The ten-dish classics menu offers a structured entry point, anchored by the vinegar pork, a Quanzhou staple reimagined with apple cider marinade, deep frying, and macadamia nuts.
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A fourth-generation fish ball soup house on Daxi Street tracing its roots to a Qing Dynasty hawker stall over 150 years ago, Che Qiao Tou Wen A Shui Wan remains one of Quanzhou's most enduring street-food institutions. The kitchen still hand-beats and hand-squeezes fresh catch into broth-simmered globes, alongside a mock chicken roll that has become its own quiet point of local pride.
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A Bib Gourmand–recognised home-style Fujian restaurant in Jinjiang, Chun Sheng has drawn local families for over two decades with its no-menu, choose-your-own-ingredient format. Ginger duck stew and fried green lobster in peppered salt are the dishes regulars return for. The ¥¥ price point makes it one of the more accessible ways to eat serious Fujian cooking in the Quanzhou area.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient since 2025, De Wen Xia Zai Mian is a no-frills noodle shop in Quanzhou's Fujian province serving a single focus: Hokkien hae mee, the region's prawn noodle tradition. The broth simmers for seven hours, the noodles carry genuine bounce, and a roster of fresh seafood toppings keeps the bowl from ever feeling static. At single-digit renminbi prices, few bowls anywhere deliver this much depth per yuan.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in both 2024 and 2025, Hall Thing occupies a courtyard space in Licheng District that frames Fujian comfort food within antique surroundings. The Yongchun taro noodle soup and stir-fried pork liver are the dishes to know. Finding the place is part of the experience: look for the large tree above a small alley courtyard off Houcheng Street.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in both 2024 and 2025, Jian Lai Fa began as a street stall in 1984 and now operates across two storeys in Quanzhou's Licheng District. Three generations of the same family have kept the Minnan repertoire grounded in home-style technique, with braised duck in rice wine and ginger among the dishes that define the kitchen's identity. Priced at ¥¥, it sits at the accessible end of serious Fujian cooking in the city.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in consecutive years (2024 and 2025), Lao A Bo occupies the affordable end of Quanzhou's serious seafood scene without compromising on ingredient sourcing. The owner's background in food distribution shows in the quality of rarely-seen catch: wild mudskippers, giant sea snails, and swimmer crabs anchor a menu that pairs Fujian coastal produce with home-style staples at mid-range prices.
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A Quanzhou institution of four decades, Luo Ji Mian Xian Hu has earned consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025 for its mee sua gou, a wheat vermicelli soup of porridge-like consistency served from a counter worn smooth by years of use. Toppings run from vinegar pork and oyster to sautéed pork liver finished with sweet potato starch. Prices sit firmly in the single-digit range.
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A Quanzhou institution named after its owner's nickname, Wai Tou Niu Rou on Meiling Road has built a loyal following around two beef dishes that define the city's approach to slow cooking: a curry-inflected braised beef rib served alongside seasoned rice, and a double-boiled oxtail enriched with Indian mulberry root. Popular enough that key items sell out before midday, this is neighbourhood dining at its most purposeful.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient for 2024 and 2025, Zhang Lin A Shan Jiang Mu Ya has anchored Quanzhou's ginger duck tradition since 1999. The slow-cooked Muscovy duck, braised two hours in rice wine and ginger, draws a steady local following to Chongfu Road. The visual theatre of stacked claypots at the entrance signals what to expect before you step inside.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in both 2024 and 2025, Zhong Ji Yan Shao Fan Ya on Chongfu Road is where Quanzhou locals go for braised duck cooked in rows of clay pots that perfume the entrance with rice wine and ginger. The menu is anchored in Minnan home cooking, with free-range and Silkie chicken as alternatives and stir-fried duck blood curd with chives as a secondary dish worth ordering.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in 2024 and 2025, this decades-old Quanzhou shop has served Fujian-style lor mee for over 40 years from a single address on Baiyuan Road. The owner, now in his 70s, still cooks each order individually to order. Expect a wait, a short menu of honest toppings, and a gravy built on peanuts, garlic, and technique accumulated across four decades.
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Positioned atop a hotel in Quanzhou's old city, Hám-khàk holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond rating (2025) for its disciplined treatment of Fujian tradition. The kitchen applies modern technique to local seafood and seasonal produce, anchored by a pre-order fo tiao qiang built from abalone, sea cucumber, and fish maw. It occupies the upper tier of what is, for now, a relatively compact fine dining scene in one of China's most historically layered coastal cities.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised institution in Quanzhou's Fengze district, Lvdao Seafood has grown from a six-table operation founded in 1989 into a leading F&B chain anchored by this two-floor flagship. The kitchen centres on Fujian seafood tradition, with swimmer crab steamed over black sticky rice or taro balls among the dishes locals return for repeatedly.
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Inside a century-old shophouse in Quanzhou's historic core, Nan Qi Lou 1924 serves food that maps the city's centuries-long role as a departure point for Southeast Asia. The menu moves between Minnan and Southeast Asian registers, with dishes like a dried-seafood-infused curry crab and a ginger braised squab leg that treats the surrounding neighbourhood as both archive and larder.
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Yueyan · Premium Fujian Cuisine places Quanzhou’s coastal food culture in the premium dining frame, with Black Pearl Restaurant Guide 2026 one-diamond recognition as its clearest public credential. The draw is less about spectacle than about Fujian’s ingredient logic: seafood, broths, preserved notes, soups, and a port-city palate shaped by trade, temples, and the sea.
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Zayton Courtyard in Licheng District occupies a heritage setting beside the Confucius Temple, with a menu grounded in Minnan culinary tradition. Dishes like ginger duck stew and braised taro in meat gravy make the case for southern Fujian cooking as a distinct regional category. The terrace table, overlooking the adjacent temple complex, is among the more considered lunch settings in Quanzhou's old district.
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绿å²æµ·é²é 楼: 绿å²æ海鲜饒樓 serves Fujianese seafood with waterfront views, a leisurely pace, and dishes such as Chilli Crab and Braised Abalone for lunch or dinner.
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Jiangnan Yuan occupies the fourth floor of the 1916 historical complex on Xinmen Street in Quanzhou, placing it inside a city whose food culture runs deeper than most visitors expect. The setting connects a dining tradition rooted in Fujian's coastal larder to an address with architectural weight, making it a reference point for understanding how southern Chinese cuisine presents itself at the premium end of a mid-sized heritage city.
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The InterContinental Quanzhou sits on Fenghai Road in one of China's most historically layered cities, earning MICHELIN Selected recognition in 2025. The property positions itself within the upper tier of international-brand hotels operating in Fujian province, where the combination of maritime heritage, Minnan architecture, and growing business travel creates a specific kind of demand that few hotels in the region address at this scale.
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A former department store at the heart of Quanzhou's historic Lychee City district, Kaipuu Belfry converts a mid-century commercial landmark into a contemporary hotel with a restaurant grounded in local Fujianese tradition. The transformation preserves the building's civic presence while introducing a design sensibility that reads as a deliberate response to the city's UNESCO-recognised heritage. For travellers who want proximity to Quanzhou's Old City without sacrificing comfort, this address makes a credible case.
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Positioned on the southern peninsula of Quanzhou, Kaipuu on the Reef translates the city's maritime heritage into a contemporary hospitality format. The property pairs mid-century design sensibility with reef stone preserved intact within the lobby, the work of interior designer Xie Ke. For a Fujian coastal stay that treats its site as an architectural statement rather than a backdrop, this is where that conversation starts.
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