The old restaurants are: Jufengde, Chunjiang Hotel, Cui Yiqing Lu Cuisine Restaurant. Specialty restaurants: Southwest Lu flavor building, Shunquan building, south of the city in the past; larger restaurants: Shark's Fin Palace Hotel, Magpie Huaju.
Lu Cuisine, is originated in Shandong Qilu flavor, the first of the four major Chinese Han cuisine (also the eight cuisines) foundation, the basis of Chinese home cooking, a long history, deep.
Lu Cuisine is characterized by careful selection of materials, fine knife work, comprehensive techniques, calm seasoning, a wide variety of dishes, strict fire, emphasizing the freshness and crispness. Popular dishes tend to highlight the aroma of onion and garlic sauce, flavor and all aspects of the noodle is a perfect match, so in our country to hair noodle noodle-based food region is widely popular; high-grade dishes can not be separated from the milk soup, broth, high-quality ingredients and excellent cooking, generous and simple, hall, fresh taste and shape, there is a Confucian style of drinking food; banquet grand, pay attention to the etiquette.
There are three most important periods in the history of Lu Cuisine: 2500 years ago, the Confucian sages laid down the aesthetic orientation of Chinese food to the fine and the philosophy of seasoning of the five flavors; 1500 years ago, the "Essentials of Qimin" in the "steaming, cooking, roasting, brewing, frying, stir-frying, boiling, cooking, deep-frying, waxing, salting, black beans, vinegar, soy sauce, wine, honey, pepper," laying down a framework of the cooking techniques of Chinese food.
A large number of dishes entered the court during the Ming and Qing dynasties, resulting in a multitude of dishes and techniques that tested culinary skills to the extreme. The eight halls or ten halls, the eight buildings, the eight residences, and the top twenty-four famous restaurants in Beijing during the Ming and Qing dynasties were all Lu cuisine. Eight banners secretly invested in the children, Shandong people operating, Manchu-Chinese cooperation in the restaurant, in the Cixi, after the peak, are opened in the downtown area, the ancient flavor, a faction of the rich and magnificent. Vegetarian eight hall", "eight buildings", "eight large residence" said, all for the Ming and Qing Dynasty catering senior restaurant first chair.