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The 77 Best Restaurants in Hangzhou

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The best restaurants in Hangzhou, according to the experts: Michelin Guide, The 50, and Chinese Restaurant Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Ru Yuan comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Hangzhou Shi.

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Jie Xiang Lou and Ambré Ciel hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.

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  1. Rank 1. Ru Yuan

    Zhejiang

    Ru Yuan sits inside the Hangzhou Botanical Garden, its floor-to-ceiling windows pulling the trees and stillness directly into the dining room. This is refined Zhejiang tasting-menu territory, the kind where dim lighting and low seating signal that the food is doing the talking. The chef's project is revival, not reinvention, bringing patience to heritage recipes that shortcuts had flattened elsewhere. Two Michelin stars and a spot on Asia's 50 Best at number ten.


  2. A fine dining room inside a resort hotel, set within a bamboo grove and built around the idea that Jiangnan cuisine carries an emotional charge, not just a flavor profile. The kitchen works with seasonal regional ingredients and traditional techniques, nudging them just far enough that the food feels familiar and slightly surprising at once. Thirteen private suites handle the banquet crowd. It holds two Michelin stars.

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  6. Rank 3. Jin Sha

    Modern Zhejiang

    The dining room sits inside the Four Seasons on West Lake, which sets certain expectations, and Jin Sha mostly ignores them in the best way, leaning hard into Zhejiang soul food rather than globe-trotting hotel cuisine. The chef builds a modern Cantonese-adjacent menu around seasonal local ingredients, and what arrives at the table looks architectural but eats like something a grandmother would have strong opinions about. It holds a Michelin star.


  7. Rank 3. L'éclat 19

    Contemporary French

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  9. Rank 3. Sense

    Modern French

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  10. Rank 3. Song

    Ningbo Zhejiang

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  11. Rank 3. Wild Yeast

    Contemporary Chinese

    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.


  12. Rank 3. Xin Rong Ji

    Taizhou Zhejiang

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  24. Rank 15. Qing Chun Perma

    Vegetarian Chinese

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  25. Rank 15. Qing Tao

    Zhejiang

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  32. Rank 15. Xiao Shan Wei Dao

    Xiaoshan Zhejiang

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  34. Rank 15. Xin Liu He

    Zhejiang

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  35. Rank 15. Xun Wei Jiang Nan

    Ningbo Zhejiang

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  38. A 27-acre estate tucked into the tea hills above Hangzhou, Dragon Well Manor is a farm-to-table restaurant that takes the concept more seriously than most: the chef keeps a handwritten ledger logging every ingredient, its source, and its delivery date, and you can ask to see it. The kitchen draws from an on-site organic plot and local farms the team scouts personally. It earned a spot on The 50 Discovery list, and the setting alone, wooden buildings amid working tea fields, does a lot of the talking.

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  39. The Grand Hyatt's flagship dining room sits right on the edge of West Lake, and the kitchen leans into that geography, building its menus around the fish and seafood at the heart of Hangzhou cuisine. It's a formal, elegant space where the cooking is careful and precise, the service polished, and the whole experience reads as a special-occasion destination rather than a casual drop-in.


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  43. Rank 40. Dining Room

    Zhejiang

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  45. Rank 40. Fu Quan Shu Yuan

    Vegetarian Zhejiang

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  46. Rank 40. Golden Silk

    Zhejiang

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  49. Rank 40. Gui Yu Jia Mian

    Hangzhou-style Zhejiang

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  51. Rank 40. Hu Ge Si Fang Cai

    Hangzhou Zhejiang

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  52. Rank 40. Hu Qing Yu Tang Yao Shan

    Medicinal Chinese

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  53. Rank 40. In Villa

    Zhejiang

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  54. Rank 40. Jiang Nan Yu Ge

    Ningbo Zhejiang

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  56. Rank 40. La Lune

    Contemporary Chinese

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  57. Rank 40. La Villa

    Seasonal European


  58. Rank 40. Li' An

    Cantonese

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  63. Rank 40. Pu Zhu

    Jiangnan Chinese

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  65. Rank 40. Shuiyang

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  68. Rank 40. The Yue Hall

    Cantonese

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  72. Rank 40. Wulin

    Zhejiang

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  75. Rank 40. Zhan Bi Lou

    Zhejiang

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  76. Rank 40. Zi Wei Hall

    Zhejiang

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