The food is succulent, but you gotta try the rice wine in a bamboo bottle. It's not that strong but it's quite tasty especially on hot day. You can go through them like water. Once you have a few of them though you will start feeling the effects.

Definitely come here early for dinner (like at 5pm) or make reservations ahead.

The spicy Duo San Xian is an all time favorite of mine—it tastes like a Bolognese pasta sauce except with more flavor and goes well with rice. Unfortunately, this dish used to come in a big portion but has recently been rationed into 3 tiny scoops.

To drink or not to drink? A big pitcher of rice wine is 10 RMB while a can of Diet Coke is 12 RMB.

This used to be a Beijing hidden gem. I would take visitors or just go with a group of friends on the weekend. Great menu, and incredible prices. Unfortunately, they have changed the menu and the portion sizes have shrunk substantially. It is still a nice, clean, reasonably priced local place for a good meal, but it is certainly lost a star over the past year or two.
Strongly suggest going to the Sanlitun location over the branch at The Place. Service is better and the menu is more inclusive.

Yunnan Food is very especial, but healthy, satisfied your appetite, will not disappoint you. Moreover neat place is my favorite. but i hope that they can design more creative and delicious food in future.

Too much hype about this place , the prices I visited last time and this time are up.
The place is attracting more customers,but its not the best as it was before.
Most staff is new,and some didnt knew properly the menu too,when I asked him some questions.
I find it hygenic is the main point and food still fine.But its not as tasty as I have had before.

They offer a hip environment that is popular with young chinese and foreigners alike. Don't forget to order their spare ribs and dragon beans.

This place is my go-to spot to take a new date. You definitely have to make sure to pick a good night - it gets real busy on the weekends, and in this weather, you don't want to have to sit outside with your gal for half an hour while you wait for a table to be free.

That aside, the place has a relatively upscale (but not too fancy) atmosphere, the waitstaff are friendly, and the food is excellent. I've occasionally been charged a little extra because they brought the wrong bill, but honestly, it doesn't take that long to sort out a problem like that. I've never had an issue with waiting for the food, but maybe I've just been lucky?

Anyway, this place is great - I don't go there often, but when I do, I can always count on having a good experience. My date might be boring, but hey...at least I'll get a good meal out of it.

One of my favorite Yunnan Food especially the mushroom dish which looks like meat, that was so good. There is a dish with super spicy crispy fish, though too hot for me, but still really. Don't try the steam fish, not as good as I thought, but popular among the chinese for some funny reason. Again, this proves that popular does not equals to good.

Yes, due to the popularity of this place, the waiters/waitresses seems to be too busy, can't blame them but the owner of hiring insufficient manpower, and also the flow /system of ordered foods coming out from the kitchen sucks, we tried many times that 1 dish is finished and got to wait for 10-15 minutes for the 2nd dish to be brought up to us, and another 10 mins for the 3rd dish...so, have to improve on that.

The rice wine is a must try! So good.

First thing that strikes it the atmosphere which is chic and modern. The space is well lit with nice art and nice spaces to facilitate your dinning experience.

The menu has beautiful pictures although some of the prices are rather high.

The service is patchy. Some things arrive quickly others are very slow. I had to ask for rice three times and it took about 30 minutes to reheat our soup which got cold. I thought they had thrown it out and was getting ready to pay when it arrived back at the table.

The food is just so so. Some of the cold dishes have a strike or two of brilliance but the rest seem uninspired.