The votes are in for the Best of Kunming 2009 awards, and the winners are:

Food: Best Chinese Restaurant
Hong Dou Yuan

Food: Best International Restaurant
The Box

Food: Best Fine Dining
Moonlight Corner (Green Lake)

Food: Best New Restaurant
Sandra's

Drink: Best Café
Salvador's Coffee House

Drink: Best Bar
The Box

Drink: Best Wine Selection
The Box

Entertainment: Best Day Out
Haobao Organic Farm

Entertainment: Best Night Spot
Uprock

Thanks to the record number of readers who voted and congratulations to the winners. Winners will receive framed certificates commemorating their selection as the best of Kunming in early January.

Voting is now officially underway for the Best of Kunming 2009 awards. From today until Sunday, December 27, GoKunming readers can vote for their favorite restaurants, cafés, bars and entertainment venues around town.

To vote, log in and then place your vote here.

Here are the categories and nominees:

Food: Best Chinese Restaurant
Da Dongbei Jiaozi Restaurant, Gingko Elite, Heavenly Manna, Hong Dou Yuan, Huatongqun Dai Restaurant, Makye Ame, Panlong 17, Shiping Huiguan, T9 Creative Cuisine, Xiangyun Huiguan, Yi Dong Yang Lou, Yihejiajia

Food: Best International Restaurant
Cacaja, Feiyang Teppanyaki (Kundu), Ganesh Bar & Restaurant, Lazy Bones Pizza, Meijiya, Moonlight Corner (Expo Garden), Moonlight Corner (Green Lake), Salvador's Coffee House, Sandra's, The Box, Totem Village, Watami

Food: Best Fine Dining
1910 La Gare du Sud, Blue Bird, España Restaurant, Gingko Elite, Moonlight Corner (Expo Garden), Moonlight Corner (Green Lake), Panlong 17

Food: Best New Restaurant
Ganesh Bar & Restaurant, Lazy Bones Pizza, Sandra's

Drink: Best Café
Chicago Coffee, Coffee Break, Dan Di Coffee, French Café, Game Café, Mazagran, Must Columbian Café, Prague Café (Beichen), Prague Café (Wenlin Jie), Q's Coffee, Salvador's Coffee House, Samoana, The Silver Spoon Café, Vintage Café, Wicker Basket

Drink: Best Bar
1895 Movie Bar, Aoma Meili Pub, Camel Bar, Chapter One, Double Happiness Bar, Fisherman's Bar, Ganesh Bar & Restaurant, Halfway House, Hiker's Bar, Lucifer's Life, On We Go, SoHo, The Box, The Hump Bar

Drink: Best Wine Selection
Gingko Elite, Moonlight Corner (Green Lake), Salvador's Coffee House, The Box

Entertainment: Best Day Out
Dianchi Spring Spa, Dwarf Empire, Gingko Tree Massage, Haobao Organic Farm, Hello! Haigeng Minigolf Park, Kunming Museum, TCG Nordica

Entertainment: Best Night Spot
1895 Movie Bar, Camel Bar, Halfway House, Kundu Pool Club, Laowo Bar, Moonlight Corner (Green Lake), On We Go, SoHo, Speakeasy, TCG Nordica, Uprock

All registered GoKunming users are eligible to vote once – suspicious flurries of registrations all voting for the same place will not be counted – if you are not yet a registered user, please register here.

In case you forgot who won last year, here are the 2008 winners.

Good luck to this year's nominees!

With 2009 just 55 days away, it's almost time again for GoKunming's annual Best of Kunming reader survey. On the first of December we will open voting for your favorite venues for food, drink, entertainment and the arts. Here are nominees for this year selected by the GoKunming editorial board:

Food: Best Chinese Restaurant
Heavenly Manna
Shiping Huiguan
Gingko Elite
Panlong 17
Yi Dong Yang Lou
Huatongqun
Xiangyun Huiguan

Food: Best International Restaurant
Moonlight Corner (Expo Garden)
Salvador's Coffee House
Indian Kitchen
Meijiya
Totem Village

Food: Best Fine Dining
Moonlight Corner (Expo Garden)
Gingko Elite
España Restaurant
Blue Bird
1910 La Gare du Sud
Panlong 17

Food: Best New Restaurant
Moonlight Corner (Green Lake)
Lazy Bones Pizza

Drink: Best Café
Salvador's Coffee House
Chicago Coffee
The Silver Spoon Café
French Café
Mazagran Café
Prague Café
Vintage Café

Drink: Best Teahouse
Yihuchun Cha Lou

Drink: Best Bar
Chapter One
Halfway House
SoHo
Speakeasy Bar
The Box
The Hump Bar

Drink: Best Wine Selection
Pizza da Rocco
Moonlight Corner (Green Lake)
Gingko Elite

Entertainment/Arts: Best Gallery
TCG Nordica
Yunart Gallery

Entertainment/Arts: Best Live Music Venue
Laowo Bar
TCG Nordica
Speakeasy Bar
Halfway House
SoHo

Entertainment/Arts: Best Dancing Venue
Speakeasy Bar
Uprock

To nominate any places we are leaving out, please send us the names of the places plus the category you are nominating them for via our contact form.

For a look at last year's winners, click here.

Thank you in advance for your nominations.

The results are in and the winners have been decided in GoKunming's first-ever Best of Kunming reader survey. This year there were some close races, with two ties in the international restaurant and live music categories. There were also four winners with two awards each: Moonlight Corner, The Silver Spoon Café, Salvador's Coffee House and TC/G Nordica.

Without further ado, here are the winners, as selected by GoKunming readers:

Food: Best Chinese Restaurant
Heavenly Manna

Food: Best International Restaurant
Moonlight Corner & The Silver Spoon Café (tie)

Food: Best Fine Dining
Moonlight Corner

Food: Best New Restaurant
The Silver Spoon Café

Drink: Best Café
Salvador's Coffee House

Drink: Best Teahouse
Yihuchun Cha Lou

Drink: Best Bar
The Hump Bar

Drink: Best Cocktails
Salvador's Coffee House

Drink: Best Beer Selection
Fisherman's Bar

Drink: Best Wine Selection
Pizza da Rocco

Entertainment/Arts: Best Gallery
TC/G Nordica

Entertainment/Arts: Best Live Music Venue
Laowo Bar & TC/G Nordica (tie)

Entertainment/Arts: Best Dancing Venue
Speakeasy Bar

Thank you to all our readers who voted and congratulations to the winners. Winners will receive framed certificates commemorating their selection as the best of Kunming in early January.

Votes have been coming in thick and fast for the Best of Kunming Awards 2007, with some categories seeing closely fought battles for the top slot.

Voting will close on Friday 21st December, so please make sure that you've made your selections by then. Just login and then click here. There's no need to vote in every category - just abstain in a section if you're not familiar with the nominations.

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Have your say: Best of Kunming Awards 2007

Today marks the start of voting for GoKunming's Best of Kunming Awards for 2007. This gives readers the opportunity to reward their favourite places by voting in a simple online questionnaire.

Categories/candidates are as follows:

Food: Best Chinese Restaurant
1910 La Gare du Sud, Hong Dou Yuan, Manna, Shiping Huiguan

Food: Best International Restaurant
Indian Kitchen, Moonlight Corner, Pizza da Rocco, Salvador's Coffee House, The Silver Spoon Café

Food: Best Fine Dining
España Restaurant, Gingko Elite, Moonlight Corner

Food: Best New Restaurant
Cacaja, Indian Kitchen, Like Bali, The Silver Spoon Café, Vintage Café

Drink: Best Café
French Café, Prague Café, Q's, Salvador's Coffee House, The Silver Spoon Café, Vintage Café

Drink: Best Teahouse
Cuihu 1923, Kunming First House, Yi Hu Chun, Yipin Ge

Drink: Best Bar
Halfway House, Hiker's Bar, Mask, Speakeasy, The Box, The Hump Bar, Unfinished

Drink: Best Cocktails
Gingko Elite, Halfway House, Salvador's Coffee House, Unfinished

Drink: Best Beer Selection
Fisherman's Bar, Halfway House, The Hump Bar, Wei's

Drink: Best Wine Selection
Gingko Elite, Golden Bay West Restaurant, Pizza da Rocco

Entertainment/Arts: Best Gallery
TCG Nordica, The Well Gallery, Yunart

Entertainment/Arts: Best Live Music Venue
Halfway House, Lao Wo Bar, Shelter Bar, Speakeasy, TCG Nordica, Yuansheng Studio

Entertainment/Arts: Best Dancing Venue
Club Nice, Speakeasy, The Catwalk Club

Voting will continue until December 21. Winners will be announced December 24 and will receive certificates commemorating their selection by GoKunming readers.

To cast your votes, please login to GoKunming, and click here. If you are not yet a registered user of GoKunming, please register here.

GoKunming is pleased to announce the "Best of Kunming 2007" competition, a chance for you to honor your favorite restaurants, cafés, teahouses, bars and entertainment venues around Kunming.

In this first-ever annual reader survey, we are seeking your nominations for the following categories. Our editorial team will select a final set of nominees for each category, which will be announced on December 3rd.

Voting for the Best of Kunming 2007 awards will take place on this site from December 3rd to December 21, with final results and winners announced on December 24th. Please send all reader recommendations via our contact form.

And the categories are:

Food

- Best Chinese Restaurant
- Best International Restaurant
- Best Fine Dining
- Best Yunnan Cuisine
- Best New Restaurant

Drink

- Best Café
- Best Teahouse
- Best Bar
- Best Cocktails
- Best Beer Selection
- Best Wine Selection

Entertainment/Arts

- Best Gallery
- Best Live Music Venue
- Best Dancing Venue