Chinese New Year: The best Chinatowns in Europe revealed

Chinatowns across Europe have been created as places of cultural significance for Chinese immigrants, but they also make for great tourist destination spots for visitors.

With a great selection of food, culture and events happening across Chinatowns, the research utilised Google Maps data to get the average rating for all Chinese restaurants in Chinatowns across Europe.

Researching the menu of the top three rated restaurants in Chinatown in each location according to Google maps to get an overall average for the price of a starter and main in restaurants in each Chinatown. Looking at the number of restaurants, as well as restaurants per 100,000 per capita and at the number of events that happen in each Chinatown, giving an overall score out of 10.

The research can reveal that Milan, Italy is the best Chinatown in Europe, with an overall score of 6.5 out of 10.

Milan, Italy has the best Chinatown in Europe with an overall index score of 6.2 out of 10, with the second most restaurants in a Chinatown (47) and is the second cheapest for food in our analysis, with the average price of starter and a main at £10.70.

Madrid, Spain, has the second-best Chinatown in the world, with the highest overall score of 5.8 out of 10. Alongside London, this metropolitan Spanish city has the most Chinese New Year events being held in any Chinatown in our analysis, with 3 different events celebrating the New Year happening across each city.

In third place is London, UK, with an overall score of 5.5. London, the capital of the UK, has the most restaurants and cafés in any Chinatown in Europe, with 65 across the famous Chinatown.

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Giacomo Piva, founder of Radical Storage comments:

“Chinatowns are a unique way tourists can get a taste of food, culture, and heritage from far away when they’re at home, or visiting other popular European cities.”

“It is important now more than ever to support Chinatowns through tourism, to preserve the heritage of these sites and to ensure generations to come can enjoy them. This includes the celebrations that happen in them, as well as all the delicious food!”

“You need only look at the over 5 million posts of Chinatowns on Instagram to see how loved they are. We must all support businesses in Chinatowns this Chinese New Year or risk losing them.”