Top 10 Best Beijing Restaurants | Where to Eat during Beijing Tour 2024/2025

Donglaishun, founded in 1903, is a Beijing Muslim restaurant with a long history. The restaurant mainly serves the Beijing Halal food and the special copper stove Beijing hot pot is what made its fame. For many years, it has maintained the high standard of mutton selection. After decades of development, the instant-boiled mutton has become the second most representative food in Beijing after peking duck. Especially in winter, a boiled mutton is very satisfying. Besides the Beijing mutton hot pot, the restaurant also serves a variety of Muslim stir-fried dishes. Its representative dishes are dry-fried mutton, fried tenderloin, roast lamb kebab, chicken and tremella, roast lamb legs, white soup crumbs, hand-grabbed mutton, fried lamb tail, etc, and more than 200 kinds of dishes with some traditional snacks are also quite distinctive. At present, there are many branches in Donglaishun in Beijing. The most recommended one is to go to the branch near the temple of heaven, which is not as crowded as Qianmen store, and you can try the very authentic Beijing instant mutton as most of Beijingers would like to go.

★ Specialties: Mutton Hot Pot

Choy's seafood restaurant belongs to Beijing Marriott Hotel Northeast, reasonably priced. The seafood restaurant specializes primarily in Cantonese & Sichuan flavors. There are 6 individually designed private dining rooms, serving customers the most authentic Cantonese food buffet. This is a perfect setting for elegant dining. If you like seafood and Cantonese dim-sum, do not miss it!

★ Specialties: Lobster Dumplings, King Prawns with Mushroom, Cantonese BBQ pork, Assorted Dim Sum Combination

King's Joy is a Vegetarian Friendly restaurant, adjacent to Yonghe Palace. It is next to Confucian Temple and other cultural centers in the old city of Beijing. The restaurant is managed by the international famous culinary master who used to work at a Michelin 3-star grade restaurant. The ingredients are carefully selected, to ensure its freshness. The interior is finely designed, and the environment is comfortable and elegant. The dishes are also carefully presented and it tastes good, too. It is highly recognized by people from all walks of life for its organic and healthy vegetables. It has been awarded one of the best restaurants in the world by LA LISTE of France. Though it is adjacent to Yonghe Palace and surrounded by tourists, the overall design of the restaurant is natural and tranquil, creating a relaxing and peaceful courtyard environment in the bustling downtown area.

★ Specialties: mushroom stewed rice; Diamond tofu; rice fried Asparagus tip; Mung bean cake; Nine-layered eggplant; Shouwu Taoren soup; Matsutake soup

It's located in the east of Beijing downtown. Asia Bistro belongs to JW Marriott Hotel Beijing. It serves Breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner for the customers, mainly Asian Food, including Chinese Food, Japanese food, Turkey food, Indian food, etc. The most recommended part is its Japanese food there. The desserts are finely placed and the service is impeccable. If you are interested to explore the Asian food in Beijing, the buffet of Asia Bistro should not be missed!

★ Specialties: Japanese food, Indian Food

Open for lunch and dinner, the 70-seats restaurant offers spectacular views over a park. As one of top Italian restaurants in Beijing, Il Ristorante Niko Romito features exquisite furniture to ensure a seamless dining experience, including custom-designed Murano glass chandeliers and chairs and columns wrapped in dark-brown leather to contrast the lighter tones of the walls and floor. Hailing from the Italian region of Abruzzo, Michelin-starred chef Niko Romito is the genius behind the gourmet delicacies at Il Ristorante. For the Bvlgari Hotel Beijing, Romito established a true "canon" of contemporary Italian cooking by especially designing a new concept which preserves his fundamental philosophy of simplicity, synthesis and a quest for the quintessence of flavor. Working from his headquarter in Italy, Romito brings to the dining rooms of the Bvlgari Hotel Beijing a menu that optimally expresses the culture, elegance and vitality of "Made in Italy".

★ Specialties: Traditional veal and tomato lasagna, Crispy suckling pig with orange caramel sauce, Fine de Claire oysters and bottarga risotto