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Best Chinese Restaurant

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»
2011 Best Chinese Restaurant

Jojo Taipei

Allston
The finest Chinese around, it turns out, isn't anywhere near Chinatown. JoJo specializes in Taiwanese cuisine, but there are enough options for every level of [...] read more»