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Srinagar Food Guide

Best Chinese Restaurants in Srinagar

Srinagar has a real, distinct Chinese-Tibetan food scene, much of it built by the city's Tibetan refugee community around Badaamwari and the Boulevard Road strip near Dal Lake. Here are the 18 restaurants tagged for Chinese cuisine in our dataset, ranked by actual rating and review volume, not by who has the best photos.

In this guide

  1. Bistro Boulevard by Pincer Foods: best all-rounder
  2. Lhasa: most-reviewed, old-school
  3. Fat Panda: best for a full Asian-fusion menu
  4. Chopsticks: Tibetan Colony momo specialist
  5. Tibetan Bowl: best thukpa and momos
  6. Café Tibet: best rated, small and consistent
  7. Full list of all 18 restaurants

"Chinese food" in Srinagar usually means Indo-Chinese and Tibetan cooking side by side on the same menu: chilli chicken and chow mein next to thukpa and momos. The city's Tibetan Colony in Badaamwari and the stretch of Boulevard Road facing Dal Lake in Durgjan are the two real clusters; most of the restaurants below sit in one or the other.

Bistro Boulevard by Pincer Foods, Srinagar
#1 · Best all-rounder

Bistro Boulevard by Pincer Foods

4.5★ · 1,619 reviews · Durgjan

A casual cafe right on Boulevard Road with a Dal Lake view, mixing Chinese dishes into a wider Kashmiri and continental menu. Highest review count of any genuinely mixed-cuisine spot on this list, which matters. A menu this broad only holds a 4.5★ average at 1,600+ reviews if the kitchen is consistently good across categories, not just one dish.

Known for: rogan josh, yakhni, plus a Chinese section on the menu; also does desserts like a chocolate croissant

Opp. Ghat No 9, Boulevard Road, near Hotel New Park, Durgjan, Srinagar, 190001

Lhasa restaurant, Srinagar
#2 · Most-reviewed

Lhasa

4.0★ · 2,289 reviews · Durgjan

The most-reviewed Chinese kitchen in Srinagar by a wide margin, and a long-standing name on Boulevard Road. The rating sits lower than others on this list at 4.0★, and reviews are genuinely mixed on food quality, but the sheer review volume means it's been a default choice for locals for years. Go for the classics (chicken chilli, chow mein) rather than anything adventurous.

Known for: chicken chilli gravy, chicken chow mein

Lane No 3, Boulevard Road, Near Shah Abbas Hotel, Durgjan, Srinagar, 190001

Fat Panda restaurant, Srinagar
#3 · Best fusion menu

Fat Panda

4.3★ · 766 reviews · Durgjan

Also on the Durgjan/Boulevard strip, but leans further into a broader Asian menu: Chinese, Thai, and pizza on the same card. Reviewers consistently call out generous portions on dishes like hot and sour soup and Korean fried chicken, and repeatedly name-check a specific host (Suhail) for hospitality, a good sign of a place that's run with real attention, not just processed through.

Known for: hot and sour soup, fried Korean chicken

Opposite Ghat No. 5, Boulevard Rd, Durgjan, Srinagar, 190001

Chopsticks restaurant, Srinagar
#4 · Tibetan Colony specialist

Chopsticks

4.2★ · 572 reviews · Badaamwari

Sits in the Tibetan Colony in Badaamwari rather than the touristy Boulevard strip, the other real cluster of Chinese-Tibetan cooking in the city. Reviewers repeatedly single out the momos specifically as "delightful," though several more recent reviews flag longer waits and inconsistency on fried rice and chilli chicken. Go for the momos, not necessarily everything else on the menu.

Known for: momos

4R56+JR, Tibetan Colony, Badaamwari, Srinagar, 190003

Tibetan Bowl restaurant, Srinagar
#5 · Best thukpa and momos

Tibetan Bowl

4.0★ · 585 reviews · Lal Chowk

Closer to the city center on Residency Road, near Lal Chowk. Reviewers are specific and consistent here: gravy momos, shredded mutton egg rice, and multiple thukpa varieties all get named directly, in a setting people repeatedly describe as clean and modern. A few reviews flag pricing on the higher side for what you get.

Known for: Tibetan gravy momos, shredded mutton egg rice, thukpa

Residency Road, near Canara Bank, Regal Chowk, Lal Chowk, Srinagar, 190001

Café Tibet restaurant, Srinagar
#6 · Highest rated with real volume

Café Tibet

4.5★ · 207 reviews · Press Colony

Tucked on the first floor of the Khidmat complex near Regal Chowk, easy to walk past. Multiple reviewers independently call the momos "the best in Srinagar," which is a strong claim to see repeated across separate reviews rather than once. Also gets specific praise for Chicken Thai Pai and thukpa, and for staff staying attentive even close to closing time.

Known for: momos, Chicken Thai Pai, thukpa

1st floor, Khidmat Complex, Regal Lane, Residency Road, Press Colony, Srinagar, 190001

Worth knowing: A meaningful share of Srinagar's "Chinese food" scene is really run by the city's Tibetan community, especially around Badaamwari's Tibetan Colony. That's why so many places on this list serve Chinese and Tibetan dishes (momos, thukpa) on the same menu rather than treating them as separate cuisines.

Full List of All 18 Restaurants

Every restaurant in our dataset tagged for Chinese cuisine, including smaller places with less review volume. Useful if the six above don't cover your neighborhood.

RestaurantRatingReviewsNeighborhood
Gauri Rasoi4.8★111Wazir Bagh
Iranian Shawarma4.8★8Durgjan
Tibetan Cheff4.7★41Gojwara
Tibetan Bites4.7★15Kothi Bagh
Chinese Bowl4.6★30Lal Chowk
Dim Sum Momo Hub4.5★96Nagin Bagh
The Dumpling House4.5★17Badaamwari
Crown And Caves4.4★94Lal Chowk
Taste Of Lhasa4.3★58Nagin Bagh
Everest Kitchen4.1★200Rajbagh
Food Routes4.1★166Hawal
Sunset Boulevard Restaurant3.8★636Nishat

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Methodology

Restaurants above are pulled from a live dataset of 286 Srinagar restaurants sourced from Google Places, filtered to those tagged with a Chinese cuisine type, then ranked by a combination of rating and review count so a handful of five-star ratings can't outrank a place with hundreds of genuine ones. Data is refreshed periodically. See the full insights report for how ratings break down across the city.