Chengdu, China

Upper House Chengdu

A 100-room hotel in a preserved courtyard on Bitieshi Street, beside Daci Temple, with a Michelin-starred vegetarian teahouse in the stone.

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The place

The scale

100 rooms and 42 apartments. They print that against the larger hotels in the city.

The table

Mi Xun is Michelin-starred, vegetarian, and set in the Qing courtyard.

The drink

Jing leads with a Sichuan Negroni, in the heritage courtyard.

The water

A 25-metre heated pool, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm.

The penthouse

Two storeys, a private library, and a terrace jacuzzi. Not a studio.

Our read

Chengdu already has large luxury hotels. Upper House is the small one, and the smallness is the point: 100 rooms and 42 apartments, inside a courtyard that was already there, next to a temple that is about a thousand years old. The meal that matches that idea is Mi Xun, a Michelin-starred vegetarian Sichuan teahouse, not a generic hotel grill. Jing is the courtyard bar, and the drink they lead with is a Sichuan Negroni. A penthouse with a library is a different booking from a studio. Come if the courtyard and that table are why you are in Jinjiang. Skip it if you wanted a vast resort pool and a steakhouse.

Come here for

Mi Xun, the vegetarian Sichuan teahouse with a Michelin star, in the Qing courtyard
A stay of 100 rooms beside Daci Temple, rather than a several-hundred-room tower
The penthouse if the private library and terrace jacuzzi are the room you mean

Skip it if

You wanted a conventional hotel grill. The starred room is vegetarian.
You are treating this as interchangeable with Upper House Shanghai. That hotel is on Shi Men Yi Road, and it used to be The Middle House.

We’d rather send you somewhere else than send you somewhere that doesn’t suit you.

Upper House Chengdu is at No. 81 Bitieshi Street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu 610021. The hotel phone is +86 28 6636 9999. They place it in Taikoo Li, beside Daci Temple, built around a preserved heritage courtyard. They print the scale on purpose: 100 rooms and 42 serviced apartments, set against the several hundred rooms of many larger hotels in the city. A 90 square metre suite sits on the former temple grounds. The penthouse is two storeys, with a private library, a double-sided fireplace, and a terrace jacuzzi. Mi Xun Teahouse is the Michelin-starred restaurant, plant-based Sichuanese, in a Qing dynasty courtyard, with teas and a vegetarian hot pot. They describe the kitchen as working with small farms near panda habitat. Jing, in the same courtyard, pours a Sichuan Negroni to a DJ. The pool is 25 metres and heated, open 7:00 am to 10:00 pm. Mi Xun Spa is open 10:00 am to 10:00 pm. This is not a tower hotel with a spa added on the top floor. The courtyard is the plan. Reserve with the hotel. MindReach does not take the booking.

03 · Live here

How the days go

01
Arrive
No. 81 Bitieshi Street, Jinjiang, inside Taikoo Li, beside Daci Temple. Walkable from the district they describe.
02
Live here
Mi Xun, the vegetarian Sichuan teahouse with a Michelin star, in the Qing courtyard
03
Go
Book on the hotel site. MindReach does not take the reservation.