Any along restaurant row just west of the beach
A place for great local dining. Happiness Restaurant is a local chain specializing in seafood. Fresh seafood abounds throughout the area. In most restaurants you can pick your fin fish or shell fish from an aquarium or plastic containers filled with salt water from the sea. Then you return to your seat to wait the freshly cooked lightly seasoned simple but good cuisine of Yantai. The lamb dumplings and fried octopus was delicous at Ha-Ha-Ha Dumpling House.The fresh octopus was great at the dumpling house. The local Wolf Fish was also delicious. Abalone even in Yantai was not cheap. But they were so tender. The area is not very suitable for vegetarians if you are into sampling local cuisine. Wuhan was better on that score. If you must remain vegetarian the local fruit was cheap and delicous.
Golden Gulf Hotel Japanese Restaurant
It’s the best Japanese in town. It has private rooms for the ones who want to eat their food in private Japanese style decorated enviroment. They have grilled beef with garlic and onions, rolled bacon with long mushrooms and seafood eggroll.
Jackie's Cuisine
Jackie's creates a laid back atmosphere with friendly service and English-language music in the background. The food is a nice blend of many western dishes including BBQ ribs and chicken, fish and chips, and sizzling Fajitas. It’s not the best ever western food but the only western cuisine in town, and similar to TGI Fridays.