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  1. Antlers on the white walls, no moose on the menu, a century-old Shanghai mansion doing its best impression of a gallery. This is a polished Jiangzhe restaurant where the chef's decades in Huaiyang cooking show in dishes built around technique rather than trend. The crispy white teat fish, a sea cucumber preparation that arrives in a crackling crust, is exactly the kind of thing that earns a Michelin star without needing to explain itself.


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  3. Rank 40. Narisawa

    Japanese

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  5. Rank 40. Obscura

    Chinese

    A private collection of Chinese antiques lines the walls of this low-lit, polished-wood dining room inside the Tangxiang Cultural Space on Xikang Road. Obscura holds a Michelin star for its tasting-menu cooking, which folds Sichuan tradition and forgotten regional techniques into something genuinely its own. The chef duo spent a year crossing China before opening, and the research shows on the plate without feeling like homework.


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  7. Rank 40. Pin Ning Fu

    Huaiyang

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    39F, The Ritz-Carlton, 18 Zhongshan Road, Xuanwu, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Chinese Mainland · Nanjing Shi
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    Closes soon, 2:30 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5:30 PM–9:30 PM

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  8. Rank 40. Pingjiangsong

    Suzhou Jiangsu

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  12. Rank 40. Rong Pao

    Sichuan

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  13. Rank 40. Sense

    Modern French

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  15. Rank 40. Seventh Son

    Cantonese

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  16. Rank 40. Seventh Son

    Cantonese

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    Address
    1F, Shangri La Hotel, 472 Wenchang West Road, Hanjiang, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, Chinese Mainland · Yangzhou Shi
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    Closes soon, 2 PM, in 13 min

    Friday 7:30 AM–10 AM, 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5:30 PM–9 PM

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  20. Rank 40. Silver Pot

    Sichuan

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  21. Rank 40. Sole

    Cantonese

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  22. Rank 40. Song

    Ningbo Zhejiang

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  23. Rank 40. Stiller

    Seasonal German

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  27. Rank 40. The Hall

    Contemporary Italian

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  29. A glass atrium rises 23 floors above the Tea Garden at the center of this hotel spa, so when you're sipping tea between treatments, Beijing's traffic feels more like a rumor. Eleven treatment rooms range from singles to VIP double suites with their own steam showers and tubs, and a sunlit pool with city views rounds things out. It holds a Forbes Four Star rating, and the quiet is the kind you notice.

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  34. Rank 40. Trb Hutong

    Contemporary French

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    Address
    23 Shatan North Street, Dongcheng, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, Chinese Mainland · Beijing
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    Closes soon, 2:30 PM, in 43 min

    Friday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5:30 PM–10 PM

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  35. Rank 40. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


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  39. Rank 40. Wild Yeast

    Chinese-French

    Seafood pulled from the East China Sea arrives at this contemporary Chinese restaurant in Hangzhou's Binjiang district with a precision that suggests the kitchen takes terroir as seriously as any French farmhouse. The team builds a menu around Taizhou produce, threading classical Chinese instincts through a modern, almost architectural presentation. One Michelin star and a spot on The 50 Discovery list confirm the room is not just scenery.


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  43. Rank 40. Xi Ding Jia Yan

    Northeastern Chinese

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  44. Rank 40. Xin Ji

    Cantonese

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  45. Rank 40. Xin Rong Ji

    Taizhou Zhejiang

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  47. Rank 40. Xin Rong Ji (Jiaojiang)

    Taizhou Zhejiang Seafood

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  52. Rank 40. Yong

    Sichuan

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  53. Rank 40. Yong Fu (Hongkou)

    Ningbo Zhejiang

    Ningbo cooking occupies a specific lane: intensely briny, fermented-forward, and proud of it. This upscale restaurant on the 56th floor of Raffles City The Bund leans into that tradition, anchoring the menu around wild seafood pulled from the East China Sea that morning. The room runs to aubergine walls, linen, and chandeliers, which creates a pleasant contrast with dishes built around deliberately pungent ingredients. It holds a Michelin star.


  54. Rank 40. Yong Fu (Huangpu)

    Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood

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  57. Rank 40. Yu Yue Heen

    Cantonese

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  58. Rank 40. Yu Zhi Lan

    Sichuan

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  59. Rank 40. Yue Hai Tang

    Cantonese

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  60. Rank 40. Zhiguan Courtyard

    Liaoning Chinese

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  62. Rank 40. Zijin Mansion

    Cantonese

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  63. Rank 164. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese

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    Address
    484 Jian Guo Xi Lu, Xu Hui Qu, Shang Hai Shi, China, 200031 · Shanghai
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    Closes soon, 2 PM, in 13 min

    Friday 7 AM–10:30 AM, Noon–2 PM, 6 PM–8:30 PM

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  65. Rank 166. Yi Long Court

    Cantonese

    Art Deco screens divide the dining room into something that feels almost private, despite the scale, and the color palette leans deep enough that you half expect a saxophonist to materialize. This is the Peninsula's flagship Cantonese restaurant, holding a Michelin star, where the kitchen pairs classical technique with a quietly modern hand. The eight-seat chef's table is the room's open secret for anyone who knows to ask.


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  67. Rank 168. 102 House

    Cantonese

    Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyline, which is a lot of competition for what's on the plate. This is a formal Cantonese banquet restaurant on the Bund, small enough that a few private rooms account for most of the seating. The kitchen revives a style of multi-course celebratory cooking that had largely receded from view, with seasonal menus and a sweet-and-sour pork whose sauce rotates by season. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.


  68. The brick-red interior is a deliberate nod to the Minnan courtyard houses of southern Fujian, set against floor-to-ceiling windows with the Shanghai skyline doing its thing beyond. This is Fujianese fine dining, a regional cuisine that prizes the clean, layered flavour of the ingredient itself over any attempt to dress it up. The tea pairings run from jasmine to aged pu-erh, and the kitchen holds a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.


  69. Rank 170. Jin Sha

    Refined Zhejiang


  70. Rank 171. Fumée

    Modern Chinese

    The name refers to smoke, and the kitchen earns it, charring and curing its way through a "province-less" take on Chinese cooking that borrows freely from France without tipping into fusion cliché. Chef Reina Chen runs an eleven-course tasting menu that pairs each dish with cocktails, landing combinations like duck piped with prawn mousse or glutinous rice beside Jinhua ham and sea urchin. Asia's 50 Best lists it at number 65 for 2026.


  71. Rank 172. La Bourriche 133

    French Seafood

    Dim as the bottom of the East China Sea, this French seafood restaurant in Shanghai's Rockbund sits where Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu, and the room feels like it knows that. Leather banquettes, travertine walls, and restrained plating frame a menu that shifts with whatever the ocean is offering that season. The chef came up at Odette in Singapore, and the technique shows. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.




  72. Rank 175. Mio

    Italian

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  73. Rank 175. Sir Elly's

    Italian


  74. Min Cai, the cooking of Fujian province, rarely gets the fine dining treatment, and Shanghai's 56th floor is an unlikely place to find it done seriously. Meet the Bund is a formal tasting restaurant where the chef reframes a regional tradition that tends to get overlooked in favor of flashier Chinese cuisines. The broth for the signature slow-cooked abalone dish takes several days to build, which tells you the kitchen's general attitude toward shortcuts.

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  75. Rank 178. 157 Shi Fang

    Shanghainese

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  77. Rank 178. A Cheng

    Zhejiang

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  79. Rank 178. A Xi Xia Mian

    Noodle Shop

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  82. Rank 178. A Zhong Shi Fang

    Minnan Seafood

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  83. Rank 178. Antstory

    Fujian

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  89. Rank 178. Bao Bao Hao

    Cantonese

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  91. Rank 178. Bao Yuan

    Sichuan

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  93. Rank 178. Bei Men Niu Xie Geng

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  94. Rank 178. Blossom

    Teochew

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