More restaurants in China likely to join Asia’s 50 Best ranks when its borders reopen, list’s compiler predicts after its best showing yet

China has its best showing yet on the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list, with four entries, and a 50 Best director thinks more will make it when travel curbs end

Three restaurants in Shanghai – Da Vittorio, Fu He Hui and Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet – were named in the top 50, and Ensue in Shenzhen also made the cut

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Sea bream steamed in bamboo leaf, spring bamboo and asparagus, Chinese toon, whey sauce from Ensue in Shenzhen, one of four restaurants in China on the 2022 Asia’s 50 Best list. Photo: Instagram/@ensue_sz

Published: 5:15pm, 7 Apr 2022

Four restaurants in China made it onto Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022 list – the most since the annual ranking began nearly a decade ago.

“I think we are likely to see more Chinese restaurants in the future, especially if and when China opens up its borders to travellers,” says William Drew, the director of content of 50 Best, which includes The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, The World’s 50 Best Bars

In Shanghai, Da Vittorio – an outpost of the original restaurant run by the Italian Cerea family – rose from 82nd place last year to 28th. It opened on the Bund in May, 2019.

Western-style restaurant Ensue, led by US chef Christopher Kostow and which opened in Shenzhen, southern China, three years ago, rose from 69th place in 2021 to 19th on the list, announced on March 29.

Da Vittorio Shanghai is an outpost of the original restaurant run by the Italian Cerea family. Photo: Da Vittorio Shanghai

Fu He Hui – the only Chinese restaurant on the list – moved up 10 spots to 12th place, and immersive fine-dining restaurant Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet, which last year did not make the list, has made a return in 39th place. Both are in Shanghai.