The Best Places to Drink and Stay in Guangzhou Shi

Soy sauce in a martini garnish is the kind of move that either makes you put down your phone or pick it up to photograph the menu. Hope & Sesame is a Cantonese cocktail bar that runs sous-vide infusions and centrifuges alongside familiar pantry flavors from the region, landing on Asia's 50 Best Bars at number seven and the World's 50 Best Bars at twenty-nine. The room has expanded recently, which tells you something about how the city feels about it.

1. The 50 #29 · The World's 50 Best Bars
2. The 50 #7 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

The Rosewood Guangzhou occupies the top 39 floors of the CTF Finance Centre, which means you're checking into what may be the tallest five-star hotel on earth. Seven restaurants and bars, an expansive two-story spa, and some vertiginous views come with that altitude. The interiors run sleek and contemporary without feeling corporate. It holds both a Forbes Five Star and a Michelin Key, so expectations are set accordingly before you even reach the 70th floor.

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2. Michelin Guide 1 Key

The rooms begin on the 74th floor, which should tell you everything about what kind of hotel this is. Four Seasons occupies the upper third of a 103-story tower in Guangzhou's Pearl River New City, and the views over the city are genuinely hard to argue with. The atrium alone will stop you mid-sentence. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. Multiple restaurants, a spa, and a pool round out the floors below.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Key
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
3. The 50 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award

A three-story LED waterfall anchors the lobby of this Pearl River luxury hotel, which takes feng shui as a design brief and runs it through a nightclub filter. Three restaurants, a spa, and a heated indoor pool cover the daytime; a cocktail lounge with a resident DJ handles the rest. Guangzhou's CBD and convention centers are right outside, which explains the crowd, though the energy skews considerably more festive than the usual business address.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
2. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

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