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Best Restaurants in Asia (2026)

Places to eat at every budget, from street food and casual local spots to established restaurants and fine dining.

298 places · Updated November 12, 2026

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21. Narisawa

Innovative Japanese tasting menu$$$$Minami-Aoyama

Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa's acclaimed Aoyama restaurant, serving a seasonal tasting menu built around Japanese ingredients, forests and the farming landscape.

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23. PRU

Modern Thai tasting menu$$$$Choeng Thale

A one-MICHELIN-Star restaurant at Trisara in Choeng Thale, serving a seasonal tasting menu built on produce from its own farm and Thai suppliers.

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26. The Chairman

Modern Cantonese fine dining$$$$Central

A Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant on Wellington Street that topped Asia's 50 Best Restaurants in 2021, known for steamed crab with Huadiao wine and fresh local produce.

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28. Trèsind Studio

Progressive Indian tasting menu$$$$Palm Jumeirah

A three-Michelin-star Indian tasting-menu restaurant on Palm Jumeirah, reimagining regional Indian cooking with produce sourced from UAE farms.

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29. Trishna

Seafood$$$Kala Ghoda

A Kala Ghoda seafood institution since 1991, known for Koliwada prawns, butter garlic crab, Bombay duck and a long list of sauces for king prawns.

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30. Akuna

Innovative tasting menu$$$$District 1 (Saigon)

A Michelin-starred tasting-menu restaurant on the ninth floor of Le Meridien, serving creative European dishes with Vietnamese influences around an open kitchen.

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32. Beta KL

Contemporary Malaysian$$$$Bukit Bintang / Jalan Perak

Beta KL, a one-Michelin-star restaurant from The KARLS Group on Jalan Perak, serves a contemporary tasting menu that tours Malaysia's best-known dishes.

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34. Bukhara

North-west frontier tandoor cuisine$$$$Chanakyapuri

The celebrated tandoor restaurant at ITC Maurya, serving north-west frontier kebabs, raan and its famous black dal in a rustic stone-walled dining room since the late 1970s.

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35. Den

Modern kaiseki$$$$Jingumae

Zaiyu Hasegawa's playful modern kaiseki restaurant in Jingumae, known for warm hospitality and a seasonal tasting menu with a sense of humour.

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36. Embassy

Modern Khmer fine dining$$$$Mondul 1

An intimate fine-dining room where chef Kimsan Pol and an all-female team serve seasonal set menus of modern Khmer cooking for lunch and dinner.

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40. Huen Phen

Northern Thai (Lanna) home cooking$Old City

Long-running Old City restaurant on Ratchamankha Road serving northern Thai home cooking such as khao soi, gaeng hang lay and khanom jeen nam ngiao.

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