The Top 8 Best Peking Duck Restaurants EVER

Still going to Quanjude for Peking Duck? Nah that’s so tourist style!

Here are some restaurants that we called “the real Peking Duck”

Peking duck is a dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the imperial era. The meat is characterized by its thin, crisp skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook.

Made in China is a new-concept restaurant located at the Grand Hyatt Beijing on Chang’an Avenue.

The restaurant features the fantastic Peking roast duck, authentic northern Chinese cuisine, and an excellent wine cellar. Diners can enjoy the whole process of duck roasting in the stylish open kitchen.

The whole duck is thinly sliced into a precise number of 100 pieces on the scene, and the delicate pancakes here are softer than at other restaurants, better offsetting the tenderness of the duck meat.

 
Whole duck price: RMB 268  (includes condiments)

Address: 1 East Chang’an Avenue, Grand Hyatt Beijing 1/F

东长安街1号东方君悦大酒店

Opening Hour: 11:30 am – 2:30 pm; 5:30 pm – 10 pm

Contact: 8518 1234 ext 3608

Established in the 1990s, Jiuhuashan Roast Duck Restaurant is a fancy eatery located in Haidian District. The restaurant is most famous for its high-quality ducks, which are supplied at a maximum quantity of only 200 per day.

For the first time visitors, the dumpling with duck meat and Chinese chive, fried duck heart, stewed and seasoned duck slices, duck feet (yeah, Chinese love it) and duck liver, these five dishes are their most popular cuisine.

 Whole duck price: RMB 188, condiments RMB 5/person

Address: 1-2/F, Purple Jade Hotel, 55 Zenguan Lu, Haidian District

增光路55号紫玉饭店1-2层 西三环航天桥东北角

Opening Hour: 11am – 2pm; 5pm – 9pm

Contact: 6841 4518/ 6848 3481

Packed Peking duck restaurant serving traditional roast duck alongside other Beijing-style dishes. The brand has many branches all over Beijing, but this one next to the Forbidden City is the best. You can get to enjoy the view of the palace while having your meal, isn’t that just like a royal family?

Whole duck price: RMB 188 (includes condiments)

Address: 11 Nanchizi Dajie (next to the east gate of the Forbidden City), Dongcheng District

东城区南池子大街11号故宫东门旁

Opening Hour: 10.30am – 10.30pm

Contact: 6526 7369

Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant started in 1985, originally called Beijing Roast Duck Restaurant.

The roast duck at Datong belongs to a new school of Beijing Roast Duck. It is different from traditional roast duck as it includes less oil and fats in the duck crackling but still tastes crispy.

As the restaurant cooks and creates dishes from the healthy point and the restaurant condition and atmosphere is good, it is popular with foreign visitors.

 Whole duck price: RMB 188 (includes condiments)

Address: 3 Tuanjiehu Beikou, Dongsanhuan Lu, Chaoyang District

团结湖北口3号楼东三环路

Opening Hour: 11am – 10pm

Contact: 6582 2892/4003

Originally founded in 1416 during the Ming Dynasty, Bianyifang is the oldest Peking roast duck restaurant in Beijing. The time-honored brand specializes in roast duck, duck delicacies, and Shandong-style cuisine.

The name itself means “to greatly facilitate customers”. Different from Quanjude’s open-oven roasting style, ducks here are roasted in a closed oven, making the skin crispier and juicier. Bianyifang has still retained this roasting technique, though most roast duck restaurants now prepare ducks in an open oven.

Bianyifang presents trademark ducks in different flavors, such as flower scent (tea, lotus and date flavors), garlic scent and vegetable scent, which are de-greased and worthy of a try.

Specialties: Closed-oven roast duck, mustard duck web, salted duck liver, duck heart cooked in wine, and dry-fried four delicacies.

 
Whole duck price: RMB 188 (includes condiments)

Address: 4/F, Bldg 1, Dacheng International Center, 78 Dongsihuan Zhonglu

东四环中路78号大成国际中心1号楼4层

Opening Hour: 11.30am-2pm, 5.30-9pm

Contact: 5962 6999

Located away from street view just behind Pacific Century Place in Sanlitun, Duck de Chine is part of the 1949 – The Hidden City dining and nightlife complex. The restaurant’s industrial-chic decor creates a relaxed, classy ambiance, while the menu incorporates both Chinese and French duck-roasting traditions.

Sets ranging RMB 188 – 388 per person feature an impressive variety of duck and non-duck dishes to sample. Of course, the classic Peking duck combo – crisp roast duck to roll in pancakes with plum sauce, spring onion, and cucumber – is also available as a standalone dish. It was voted “Outstanding Beijing Duck” in our 2011 Restaurant Awards.

Other dishes worth trying are the plum-infused pumpkin and braised oyster mushroom wrapped in tofu skin.

 
Whole duck price: RMB 298, condiments RMB 10/person

Address: 1949 – The Hidden City, Courtyard 4, Gongti Beilu, Chaoyang District

朝阳区工体北路4号院

Opening Hour: 11am – 2.30pm, 5.30 – 10.30pm

Contact: 6501 8881

This is small duck restaurant in a traditional courtyard house in Beifengxiang Hutong of Beijing. There isn’t any advertisement and conspicuous shop front, but many people come for roast duck especially by its reputation.

Whole duck price: RMB 188 (includes condiments)

Address: No 11 Beixiangfeng Hutong, East Qianmen Street

西城区前门东大街北翔凤胡同11号

Opening Hour: 10am-10pm

Contact: 6501 8881

The size of duck is ok and great variety of food is provided as well. It’s inside the shopping mall so the environment is quite decent. The only sad thing is that there’s no roast duck show in this restaurant. There are also cuisine from southern part of China.

Whole duck price: RMB 218 (includes condiments)

Address: 2/F, Grand Summit, No.19 Dongfangdong Road

Opening Hour:

Contact: 8531 5015