The crème de la crème of Asia’s food and beverage industry gathered in the South Korean capital last night, where Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants hosted a live awards ceremony at the Grand Hyatt Seoul to crown the best eateries of 2025. Hong Kong has held our own against the 16 cities whose restaurants made it onto the list, with seven eateries representing the pinnacle of our industry.
Contemporary Cantonese restaurant The Chairman has been ranked number two on the list, with a culinary approach featuring luxury ingredients that have been forgotten in time represented once again with creativity. There’s a definite reason why tables at this restaurant are booked out months in advance. Close on The Chairman’s heels at number three is Wing, which serves up contemporary Chinese dishes that utilise local ingredients propped up by European techniques. Wing’s chef-owner Vicky Cheng also received the peer-voted Inedit Damm Chefs' Choice Award during the event. Last year’s list saw The Chairman at number 4, while Wing was number 5.
Further down the 2025 list, Caprice comes in at number 18, making a 14-spot jump from last year’s 32nd rank. French restaurant Neighborhood ranks at number 21, while LatAm diner Mono is at number 24. Meanwhile, Neapolitan eatery Estro makes it onto the Asia’s 50 Best list for the first time, at number 32. And wrapping up Hong Kong’s representative restaurants is Ando’s blend of Spanish and Japanese elements, coming in at number 41.
Over in Macau, Chef Tam’s Seasons in Wynn Palace rose a whopping 40 spots to claim the ninth rank on this year’s list, which also means it clinched the Highest Climber Award at the ceremony.
The restaurant that was eventually crowned the Best Restaurant in Asia for 2025 was Gaggan in Bangkok. Celebrated chef Gaggan Anand has had previous iterations of his eponymously named restaurant, which has also won this top accolade, before launching a reimagined concept in 2019. By 2023, Gaggan had made it back on the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list, and steadily climbed to this year’s top position.
In terms of best-performing cities, Bangkok and Tokyo both have nine entries on the 2025 list, followed by Hong Kong and Singapore both with seven best-ranked restaurants, then Seoul and Shanghai with four entries each. See below for the list of 50 best restaurants in Asia, and visit their official website for more details.
Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants of 2025:
- Gaggan, Bangkok
- The Chairman, Hong Kong
- Wing, Hong Kong
- Sézanne, Tokyo
- Mingles, Seoul
- Nusara, Bangkok
- Odette, Singapore
- La Cime, Osaka
- Chef Tam’s Seasons, Macau
- Onjium, Seoul
- Sühring, Bangkok
- Narisawa, Tokyo
- Potong, Bangkok
- Meet the Bund, Shanghai
- Fu He Hui, Shanghai
- Sorn, Bangkok
- Florilège, Tokyo
- Caprice, Hong Kong
- Masque, Mumbai
- Le Du, Bangkok
- Neighborhood, Hong Kong
- Den, Tokyo
- 7th Door, Seoul
- Mono, Hong Kong
- Eatanic Garden, Seoul
- Logy, Taipei
- Ling Long, Shanghai
- Les Amis, Singapore
- 102 House, Shanghai
- Crony, Tokyo
- Gaggan at Louis Vuitton, Bangkok
- Estro, Hong Kong
- Sushi Saito, Tokyo
- Sazenka, Tokyo
- JL Studio, Taichung
- Goh, Fukuoka
- Labyrinth, Singapore
- Burnt Ends, Singapore
- Meta, Singapore
- Seroja, Singapore
- Ando, Hong Kong
- Toyo Eatery, Manila
- Maz, Tokyo
- Baan Tepa, Bangkok
- Myoujyaku, Tokyo
- Indian Accent, New Delhi
- Samrub Samrub Thai, Bangkok
- Euphoria, Singapore
- August, Jakarta
- Lamdre, Beijing
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