Top 10 Best Xian Restaurants | Where to Eat during Xian Tour 2024/2025

DefaChang Restaurant is located in the center of Xi'an, adjacent to the Bell Tower. It is a dumpling restaurant with a long history, and the largest scale and the high standard dumpling banquets. On the first floor are selling dumplings and snacks, and on the second floor are for dumpling banquets. The sour soup dumplings on the first floor are very delicious with refreshing, spicy and fragrant soup. There are usually many people during dinner and lunch time. You need to pay for what you ordered first and get the receipt and back to your seat. Later the waitress will delivery the dumplings to you. The Dumpling banquet on the second floor is more fancy and delicate. Dumplings of different shapes and colors are made with different fillings and different skins. The taste varies from dumpling to dumpling and the shrimp dumplings are recommended.

★ Specialties: Dumpling Banquet, Fresh Shrimp and Mushroom Dumplings, Dumplings in Sour Soup

The flatbread in the mutton soup for Xian is like the roast duck for Beijing. Besides many halal restaurants selling the paomo (flatbread in the mutton soup), Tongshengxiang is a century-old restaurant located in the city center near the Bell Tower. To order the paomo, you need to buy its card and top-up the card with some certain money and use this card in the restaurant. If you can not finish using it, you will get a refund for the rest. Every flatbread of this restaurant is marked with their own logo. After getting the bread, you need to tear it into fingernail-sized pieces and return it to the waiter. The mutton soup is very delicious. You can also order other local food like the mutton kebabs and steamed buns here.

★ Specialties: Flatbread in Mutton Soup, Lamb Kebabs

Jia San steamed buns are very popular among the locals and the visitors. As soon as you get to Beiyuanmen, you will see it and they only accept cash. Usually, one portion has 8 steamed buns, and it costs about CNY 16. The steamed buns are very delicious with thin skins and juicy stuffing and it is said that you can get one spoonful of soup of every bun. However, pay attention to your first bite of each bun otherwise you may get scalded by the hot juice. Besides the popular mutton and beef buns, there are also seafood buns and vegetable buns for you to choose from. Though it is near the tourist attractions, which may bring lots of people, the price is quite reasonable.

★ Specialties: Steamed Beef Buns, Steamed Mutton Buns

It is a theme restaurant with bicycles as its element. All the decoration of this restaurant are originated from the idea of an experienced cyclist. It mainly serves Western food, Italian cuisine. The chef of the restaurant has more than ten years' cooking experience in Western food. If you need a break from Chinese food in Xi’an this place is excellent. This nice casual Italian restaurant has a great selection of many imported beer and wines and amazing food, with a lovely atmosphere and friendly staff who can speak fluent English. If you would like to go there during the holidays, you may need to reserve your seat in advance.

★ Specialties: Salad, Steak, Pizza and Pasta

The restaurant Wei is by the riverside of Qu, part of W hotel. The lunchtime is from 12:00 am to 14:30 pm. After arrival, the waitress will friendly welcome you to the seats. The dishes are fresh and various. The whole restaurant is divided into several areas. The beverage area includes various kinds of beer, wine, fruit juice, tea, hand-made ice cream and so on. You can find tuna, salmon, octopus, abalone, shellfish, sea urchin, oyster and caviar in the seafood area, and the barbecue area offers lamb steak, steak, scallop, chicken wings, lamb kebab and so on. The whole restaurant is modern and comfortable. After the dinning, you can choose to get a photo for free with your friends and family here. Apart from the Wei Buffet, there are also Chinese restaurant Yen and hot pot restaurant Fu in this hotel, which are also highly recommended on Tripadvisor.

★ Specialties: Sushi, Sashimi, Smoked Salmon, Steak