Best of Boston
Best Chinese Restaurant
Szechuan Mountain House
Boston
Fiery Sichuan specialties abound at this swanky New York import, which has been drawing huge crowds to Allston since its late 2023 debut. The menu [...] read more»
2022 Best Chinese Restaurant
Sumiao Hunan Kitchen
Cambridge
If there were a Spotify-style algorithm for restaurant recommendations, Sumiao’s colorful, midcentury-pop dining room might make it an “If you like … ” suggestion for [...] read more»
2019 Best Chinese Restaurant
Five Spices House
Boston
Like the city’s options for Sichuan fare, this repeat winner just keeps getting better—and bigger. Last winter, the Chinatown original spawned a sibling kitchen in [...] read more»
2018 Best Chinese Restaurant
Five Spices House
Boston
The kung pao’s decent enough, but you’re here for the incendiary Sichuan—meat, fish, veggies, noodles, and more-adventurous morsels (duck tongue, pig kidney) that get wok-charred, [...] read more»
2017 Best Chinese Restaurant
Winsor Dim Sum House & Bar
Quincy
The beauty of this dim sum spot's new Quincy location is in the extensive, sharply executed menu: In addition to traditional cart service, diners can [...] read more»
2016 Best Chinese Restaurant
Chef Chang’s on Back Bay
Boston
Sichuan, Xinjiang, Shaanxi: The regional cuisines of China are liberally represented by a broad selection of outstanding eats at this garden-level hideaway. From simple pork [...] read more»
2015 Best Chinese Restaurant
Qingdao Garden
Cambridge
Boston reps several styles of Chinese cuisine well—we have fiery Sichuan specialists, Taiwanese soup-dumpling pros, and temples to luxurious Cantonese seafood in Chinatown. For the [...] read more»
2014 Best Chinese Restaurant
Taiwan Café
Boston
The brothy xiao long bao (or soup dumpling) has long been the darling of the food world. We get it, sure, but we’d also like [...] read more»
2013 Best Chinese Restaurant
Jo Jo Taipei
Allston
Long before every trendy restaurant was putting pork-stuffed bao on the bar menu, this Allston stalwart was serving up a (perfectly) traditional version of the [...] read more»
2012 Best Chinese Restaurant, South
Sichuan Gourmet
Sharon
It may look like any other suburban strip mall Chinese joint, but don't let looks deceive you: The kung pao chicken, ma po tofu, and [...] read more»
2012 Best Chinese Restaurant
Jo Jo Taipei
Allston
One bite of this Allston beauty's crisp, pillowy scallion-and-roast-beef pancakes, and you'll never order those sad, green-flecked cardboard slabs from your local Chinese takeout joint [...] read more»