Qingdao Restaurants

This new small restaurant is situated in downtown right next to the famous Cafe Cona in The Coffe and Tea Art Street (Min Jiang Er Lu). I actually tried this place just because there was no free tables in Café Cona that is considered to have the best coffee in Qingdao. The coffee I had in Café Italia Restaurant turned out to be much better and the price is cheaper. The owner said they brought it from Italy, as all other stuff in the restaurant. They have the best espresso I’ve ever tried in Qingdao.

There is a various list of dishes in menu, such as pasta, pizza etc. A big (too big) plate of pasta costs 50 RMB, and it was really delicious. The plate was so big that next time we visited this place we ordered 1 pasta for 2 people – and were full. They have a delicious seafood pizza (round 70 RMB), and always give you free bread that is backed right in the restaurant and made of Italian flower.

The restaurant has a very comfortable terrace and 2 floors inside. I really enjoyed the environment and furniture, that was also brought from Italy and France, as the owner said. Here you actually forget that you are in China. The staff speak good English, the restaurant has a French and Italian cooks. The only thing I didn’t like about this restaurant is their Tiramisu dessert, that was not as it should be.

All in all this is my favorite restaurant by now, considering the perfect environment, delicious food and very reasonable prices. I hope they will stay the same in future.

The feeling is always warm in this busy restaurant.

Favorite Dish: The hotpot. Ask for a Yuan-yang, and you'll have hot soup on one side and herbal soup on another.

The waitress rants when she/he serves the hotpot. Basically it's about how the soup is made. Most people love the soup until they hear it's got snake and tortoise meat in it.

This is a steak restaurant that is located just off Zhongshan Rd. It was similar to a few other steak restaurants I had eaten at in China where the steak comes on a sizzling hot-plate that is more like it being radioactive than sizzling. For some reason, this seems to be a popular way to cook steaks in China and I can't see why. Anyway, like the other places, you can order a set menu which comes with soup, salad, bread roll etc and is pretty good value.

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As part of your tour around the museum, you'll get the chance to sample the beer at two stages of the production process. The first sample you'll get given isn't that great as it's cloudy and tastes strange. I didn't realise at the time, but this sample is of the beer before its been filtered and treated into the finished article. I even said to the chap behind the bar that he needed to clean his pipes out before someone assured me that it wasn't intended to be the real deal! The final sample IS the real deal and I got given about 7-800ml of the stuff in a large carafe which was included in the price of my ticket. I sat in the bar area and chatted to various visitors for quite some time drinking away! Great stuff! There's also a row of bars selling the stuff opposite the brewery.

Although the atmosphere is warm & friendly, the restaurant has gone down hill in recent years. They don't even use a real pizza dough recipe or ricotta cheese in their lasagna.

Head to Pizza Hut near May 4th Square if you want the best pizza in town.

Favorite Dish: The pork ribs are still good.

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At the end of the guided tour through the Tsingtao brewery you will get a small glass of the famous beer and may buy some souvenirs like caps, t-shirts, beer-saucers, bottleopeners, steins etc. with the emblem of this brewery.

Favorite Dish: It is the beer of course, it tasted fine, almost like in germany.

Great food for the prices. During the week this is a lovely place to eat, very quant and romantic, but on the weekend you better eat early because this French restaurant doubles into one of the most popular night clubs for foreigners in Qingdao.

Favorite Dish: Pizza of any kind. They have very thin crust pizzas with excellent French cheese.

Absolutely wonderful food. I go to this restaurant quite often with my boyfriend who is Italian and he agrees that the food here is amazing. A little pricey, but the restaurant owner Stefano will make up for the prices with his glowing personality and fabulous cooking. Also for the gentlemen out there..this is a great place to take the ladies.

Favorite Dish: the anttipasta for the starter, pork chops for the main course, and then espresso followed by grappa