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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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41. Hyotei

Kaiseki$$$$Nanzen-ji

A kaiseki restaurant with more than 400 years of history beside Nanzen-ji, famous for its soft-boiled Hyotei egg and its morning porridge.

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42. Jamavar Doha

Indian fine dining$$$$West Bay

Jamavar at the Sheraton Grand Doha holds a Michelin star for refined Indian cooking from across the subcontinent, from Old Delhi butter chicken to tandoor lamb chops.

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43. Jungsik

New Korean fine dining$$$$Cheongdam

Chef Yim Jung-sik's Cheongdam restaurant, a pioneer of what it calls New Korean fine dining, holding two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide.

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45. Mango Mango

Contemporary Vietnamese fusion$$$Riverside

Chef Tran Thanh Duc's riverside restaurant, open since 2008, serving inventive Vietnamese fusion dishes with views across to the Japanese Covered Bridge.

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46. Mott 32

Contemporary Chinese$$$$Central

A stylish basement Chinese restaurant under the Standard Chartered Bank Building in Central, known for its 42-day applewood-roasted Peking duck and Iberico char siu.

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49. Nihonbashi

Japanese$$$$Port City

Dharshan Munidasa's Japanese restaurant, founded in 1995 and the first Sri Lankan restaurant on Asia's 50 Best list, now on Chaithya Road at Port City.

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51. Sorn

Southern Thai fine dining$$$$Sukhumvit

A fine-dining restaurant in a converted house off Sukhumvit 26, devoted to Southern Thai recipes, regional ingredients and traditional cooking methods.

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52. Sufra

Traditional Jordanian$$Jabal Amman

A Rainbow Street favourite in an early 20th-century villa, serving generous Jordanian home cooking such as mansaf, clay-pot dishes and freshly baked bread.

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53. Taïrroir

Contemporary Taiwanese tasting menu$$$$Dazhi (Zhongshan)

Chef Kai Ho's three-Michelin-star restaurant reinterprets Taiwanese food culture and seasonal island produce through French technique.

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54. Tam Vi

Northern Vietnamese$$Ba Dinh

A Michelin-starred restaurant in the style of a vintage northern tea house, serving refined home-style Vietnamese dishes at moderate prices near the Temple of Literature.

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56. The Chimney

Continental fine dining$$$$Durbar Marg

One of Nepal's oldest fine-dining restaurants, founded by the hotelier Boris Lissanevitch and still known for its copper chimney, borscht and baked Alaska.

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57. Toyo Eatery

Contemporary Filipino$$$$Makati

A Michelin-starred Makati restaurant named after the Tagalog word for soy sauce, cooking only Philippine ingredients with fermenting and preserving done in house.

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58. Zuma Muscat

Contemporary Japanese izakaya$$$$Shatti Al Qurum

The Muscat outpost of the international Japanese izakaya brand, inside W Muscat, with a sushi counter, robata grill, cocktails and views over the Gulf of Oman.

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59. Al Mrzab

Emirati and Kuwaiti$Airport Road

A busy, good-value Emirati and Kuwaiti restaurant on Airport Road, holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand and decorated with old photographs of Abu Dhabi.

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60. Alba

Modern Italian fine dining$$$$Lusail Marina

Alba, on the first floor of Raffles Doha in Lusail's Katara Towers, is a Michelin-starred Italian restaurant with an intimate vaulted dining room and a chef's table.

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