Benlai Cookhouse has access to the freshest meats and products sourced at home and abroad. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/China Daily]

The dessert, iced caramel cream pie served with blue­berries and strawberries looked very beautiful and it tasted dense and sweet, quite to my taste.

First-time visitors should go a little early: it is difficult to find the restaurant among all the eateries dotting the Shenlu dining street without a smartphone map; it is on the third floor of a small building that is easy to miss.

The ingredients differ for differently priced meal sets, which are respectively 280 yuan ($45), 380 yuan and 480 yuan per head for dinner. For lunch, the price levels are 120 yuan and 150 yuan per head.Contact the writer at liuzhihua@chinadaily.com.cn

If you go

Daily from 11:30 am-2:30 pm, 6-9:30 pm

No. 102103, third floor of Ritan Shangjie (upper street), 39 Shenlu Jie, Chaoyang district, Beijing

01085694996/4220