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Xin Rong Ji becomes Chengdu’s first three-star restaurant

· Written up · The Starred Bill

Linocut-style print of misty mountains and bamboo with a small pavilion, a round table with a steamed fish and a teapot in front and three gold stars above.

Xin Rong Ji in Chengdu was promoted to three MICHELIN stars in the 2027 Chengdu selection, published online on 3 September 2026. It is the city’s first three-star restaurant, making Chengdu the third mainland Chinese city with one, after Beijing and Shanghai. Zinan and Focus by Bill Yue won their first star, and no restaurant lost one.

What a meal at Xin Rong Ji costs

The Chengdu branch of Xin Rong Ji serves the cooking of Taizhou in Zhejiang and has been in Sichuan for about three years; its Beijing branch already holds three stars. A typical meal costs CN¥846 (about $125) a head, an average spend rather than a set menu.

The new one-star restaurants

The first, Zinan, cooks refined traditional Sichuan food, at about CN¥329 (about $50) a head. The second, Focus by Bill Yue, cooks Japanese-French food at about CN¥798 (about $120), and its sommelier Sam Liu won the Sommelier Award.

How many Michelin stars does Chengdu have?

Fifteen starred restaurants: Xin Rong Ji with three, Yu Zhi Lan with two and 13 with one, among 84 restaurants in the guide. Lan Guijun of Yu Zhi Lan received the city’s first Mentor Chef award. Every starred restaurant, with prices, is on our Chengdu Michelin star restaurants page.

Sources

Prices and counts are The Starred Bill’s own data on 3,896 starred restaurants: stars from each country’s latest MICHELIN Guide, menu prices from each restaurant’s own website or, where it publishes none, a recent review, recorded October 2026. US dollar figures use exchange rates from ExchangeRate-API (27 October 2026).