What high-end restaurants are there—and how to choose?

Are you very interested in eating this kind of thing? If you're interested in trying not just some regular fare but a fancy restaurant, these tips might be just what you need.

What’s the most cost-effective way to eat at a high-end restaurant?

Ctrip’s Black Diamond Exclusive Tasting Event

Ctrip’s Black Diamond users have the opportunity to participate in offline tastings three times a year. You can think of it as being able to eat at high-end restaurants three times a year.

Currently, Cantonese restaurant Hakka in Shanghai, for example, can apply.

It is a platinum restaurant in Ctrip Food Forest (Ctrip Food Forest is divided into five levels: black diamond, diamond, platinum and gold and silver). You can understand from your friends that black diamond equals X pearl 3 diamonds, diamond equals X pearl 2 diamonds, platinum equals X pearl 1 diamond).

As of press time, there is still one quota available for Hakka people to apply for, which is the quick opening of Ctrip Black Diamond.

Hakka is not a casual restaurant. He is No. 18 on the Bund. The restaurants at No. 18 on the Bund are either rich or expensive. A normal meal costs more than a thousand yuan per person.

If sold separately, the price of this tasting package is 1,408 yuan. You can apply directly now.

So, is it necessary to work hard to complete a Ctrip black diamond?

In the membership systems of major OTAs, people often focus on Fliggy’s F4, but in fact, Ctrip’s black diamond rights are still incredible.

For example, if you fly HNA's business class once in 120 days, you can become an HNA gold card; a black diamond can be matched to a Juneyao Airlines gold card; and if you stay for 3 nights within 30 days, you can become an IHG platinum card.

Work hard, sluts. Even if it’s just for the Hakkas, it’s worth buying Ctrip Black Diamond.

After the Hakkas are over, the next ten days of tasting are the Beijing roast duck season.

Want to eat at a cost-effective price

China Catering Week

China Catering Week happens once or twice a year and is currently in progress. More than 600 selected restaurants from 15 cities across the country participate. Starting from 78 yuan, you can eat at all the big-name restaurants in the city, including Michelin, Black Pearl, and of course many restaurants in Ctrip Food Park.

Ctrip Restaurant Packages

Luxury restaurants rarely offer group purchases. If it is a group purchase at a luxury restaurant, you will almost never choose it. But if you don’t sell group purchases, you can promote set meals (packages). The advantage of Set is that it helps you solve the problem of how to order food, especially those who are Libras. Some packages are really cost-effective.

So, how did you find these sets? Currently the best way to find these packages is Ctrip Food Park.

Give a few examples.

Ctrip’s gourmet restaurant has platinum and one Michelin star, the Ritz-Carlton Macau. Ctrip Food Forest has a set for 445 yuan. The menu is as follows:

Shaomai yellow mushrooms, salty dumplings with shrimp and chicken, pink fruit and yellow ear bamboo tube rice, crispy three-layer stir-fried pork, fruit vinegar, cucumber with red thorns, salt and pepper tofu, flowers Glutinous glutinous rice balls, Japanese pepper beef tenderloin with mountain delicacy sauce, Jinxiu seafood fried rice, Li Xuan's exquisite beauty.

And some packages have a reservation function, which can save you a phone call to make a restaurant reservation.

Gourmet platinum, one Michelin star Beijing Yushe Jingya Tang. The unlimited dim sum set lunch is 168 yuan, and the roast duck set is 328 yuan.

Tang Ya’s specialty is Peking duck. Tang Ya has been awarded one Michelin star for two consecutive years and was selected into the Ctrip Gourmet Awards. Its strength is naturally no problem.

Gourmet platinum, Michelin one-star Beijing Bulgari Restaurant Nicolomito, Italian Sunday seafood brunch, 548 yuan.

Hey, Paulie.

It may not seem cheap, but it’s actually a good deal. After all, there is lobster, caviar, and Bulgari’s restaurant, which is a great deal.

With the word "return", it means that this restaurant has a set meal. The set menu at a luxury restaurant will not be much cheaper, but it is definitely more cost-effective than buying it directly on site.

And the important thing is that some packages can help you solve booking problems directly online. This is so practical.

Credit Card

Classic China Merchants Bank credit cards (Diamond, Centurion Platinum, Centurion Black Gold, Infinite Card) have privileges at fine restaurants four times a year.

Privileges at CMB’s high-end restaurants are achieved by purchasing coupons. For example, at these two stores in Hangzhou, you can buy a 500 yuan voucher for 400 yuan, which is equivalent to a 20% discount four times a year.

American Express also has high-end restaurant benefits.

On the official WeChat account of American Express, after entering your card number, you can see which high-end restaurants have discounts

For example, in Hangzhou, Amber Japanese Cuisine and EATA are both 30% off with American Express cards, which is OK Direct online booking is supported.

Beijing’s Michelin-starred Jingyatang also offers a 30% discount for American Express cards.

Group Meal Card

Long-term holders of Hyatt Food Expo and Accor A, mainly because the food is cost-effective and can be discounted by half.

These meal cards are 50% off for two people, 30% off for three people, and 25% off for four people. It tastes like a great deal. You can buy meal cards at major hotels. Just choose the most suitable one.

The official mini program of the restaurant sometimes has relatively good set menus, so you can really pay attention to them.

For example, the afternoon tea in Hangzhou has always been the cheapest in the official mini program.

Want to eat in style

Chef’s private banquet

Some famous chefs often give banquets to private chefs. Take Hangzhou as an example. Four Seasons Hotel and Zixuan are the places where chefs have the most private banquets.

The chef at Four Seasons is Wang Yong’s Chef Wang. His chef has a private dinner once a year and cooks it himself.

If you want to book a private banquet with the master chef of the Four Seasons Sands, you'd better be a regular guest of the Sands Room. Generally, tickets are sold from regular customers and then some are placed in the mall (the official WeChat account of Four Seasons).

Once a year, the selling price is 3,000 per person.

Zixuan often holds private banquets for chefs. Their chef is Yu Bin, who is also considered a god in Hangzhou's catering industry. I own three Black Pearl restaurants and then I export my experience to Ryan at Conrad Deli. Ryan is also this year’s black pearl.

Similarly, if you want to experience Zixuan’s chef’s private dishes, it’s best to be a regular customer of Zixuan, or grab it as soon as the official WeChat account is released.

There are rumors that Hyatt will also host chef’s private dining during Double 11 this year, which is worth looking forward to.

Hidden menu

There are several hidden menus in Yangzhou Banquet, such as Wang Zengqi Banquet and Red Mansion Banquet. Don't look at the hidden menu, it's actually not expensive at all. Wang Zengqi charges 3,000 yuan for a table (8-12 people), and the average price per person is about 300 yuan.

You said you were inviting people to dinner in Hangzhou, and the average number of people in the better private rooms (Jinsha, Wei Zi, Xie Xianglou) was no less than 1,000.

Wang Zengqi’s family banquet is a private dish for ordinary literati. Most of the dishes are delicacies from mountains and seas written by Mr. Wang. They're not flashy, but they're not big plates either. They're made from ingredients that come from ordinary people.

The ingredients of the dishes are not exaggerated, and naturally they are not too expensive. How many restaurants sprinkle some black truffle on braised pork to make their dishes more expensive? Do you really think there is a difference in taste?

But the hidden menu is hard to find, and there is no good way. I can only say that you can ask more food circles experts.

In fact, each ten-day tasting event of Ctrip Food Forest also takes the route of hiding the menu, and they are all things that are rarely eaten on weekdays.