Top 5 Peking Duck Restaurants - Where to Eat Authentic Peking Duck in Beijing?

• Value: ★★★★☆ • Food: ★★★★★ • Service: ★★★★★
• Average Cost: CNY 360/pp

Beijing Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant, established in 1985, is popular among expats and touristS. It is the top 1 roast duck restaurant which has over 3,000 reviews on tripadvisor. It is justifiably proud of its lean ducks, which make them less greasy and much tastier than regular Peking duck. The restaurant attracts its share of famous clientele, including Israeli PM Netanyahu and Philippine President Duterte, among others. Although the price of it is a little higher than other roast duck brands in Beijing, because of its deliciousness, exquisite setting, convenient location and excellent service (On each table, there is an instruction on eating the duck, and the waitresses will also show diners different ways to consume the delicacy), Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant is currently the most popular peking duck resturant in Beijing. By the year of 2019, there are over 8 Dadong Roast Duck Restaurants in Beijing city, most of which are located in the eastern downtown. Below are some recommended major branches of Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant. The Wangfujing one is convenient, which is more suitable for tourists shopping there, while Dadong Nanxincang restaurant is also highly recommended.The decor is modern but surprisingly, for a restaurant on the sixth floor in a sought after neighborhood, there were no windows and thus no view, and you need to take a small elevator to the restaurant.

• Specialties: Da Dong "super lean" roast duck, duck hearts with lily buds, salted duck liver, Chef Dong's braised sea cucumber, goose liver aspic

• Value: ★★★★★ • Food: ★★★★☆ • Service: ★★★★☆
• Average Cost: CNY 180/pp

Siji Minfu Roast Duck Restaurant is a traditional Beijing food restaurant. The restaurant mainly serves roast duck, traditional Beijing snacks and other local cuisine. The restaurant is in a traditional Beijing style dated back to the 1950s . The dishes are beautifully arranged and reasonably priced. It is a popular roast duck restaurant among local Beijingers recently. At present, there are more than seven roast duck branches, mainly distributed in the north and east of Beijing. The most popular one is the branch near the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City. If you can reserve the window side table, you can have a panoramic view of the Forbidden City while munching the duck. Since it is so popularly located, in order to avoid queuing too long, it is recommended to reserve it in advance.

• Specialties: Roast Duck, Crispy duck bone with salt and pepper, mustard duck web, salted duck liver, soft-fried duck liver, dry-fried four delicacies

• Value: ★★★★★ • Food: ★★★★ • Service: ★★★★
• Average Cost: CNY 150/pp

Originally founded in 1416 during the Ming Dynasty, enduring for over 600 years, Bianyifang is the oldest Peking roast duck restaurant in Beijing. The decoration of storefront also tends to the retro style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which makes it recognizable.The name itself means to facilitate customers. With different roast duck techniques from Quanjude, of which the duck is cooked in a open-oven, while Bianyifang's duck is cooked in a closed oven. Therefore, the duck skin is less crisp but more tasty and juicier. There are more than 8 branchesin Beijing, mainly in the eastern part of Beijing. Beside roast duck, each branch has its own unique representative dishes. Though the dishes look less fancy, Bianyifang's roast duck price is more economical and taste yummy too. It also presents multiple sauces in different flavors to relieve the greasing duck slice, such as flower flavor, garlic flavor, and vegetable flavor.

• Specialties: Closed-oven roast duck, mustard duck web, salted duck liver, duck heart cooked in wine, and dry-fried four delicacies