Mandarin Oriental, Doha's Liang Restaurant Shortlisted for Time Out Doha Awards 2025

Mandarin Oriental, Doha opened in March 2019 and has spent the years since building a dining reputation that competes with a city whose restaurant scene has grown considerably more sophisticated. Liang, the hotel's Chinese restaurant, made the case clearly in 2025, earning a spot on the Time Out Doha Restaurant Awards shortlist, selected from a longlist of more than 220 dining venues across the city.

Executive Chef Lam Chi Kuen leads the kitchen, bringing nearly three decades of experience across Chinese regional cuisines to a menu that draws on Cantonese, Sichuan, and other traditions rather than a single regional focus. That range is part of what set Liang apart in a competitive field of shortlisted restaurants spanning every category of Doha dining.

For a hotel now several years into its life in a market that keeps adding ambitious new restaurants, a shortlist nod from one of the city's most closely watched dining awards is a meaningful marker that Mandarin Oriental, Doha's kitchen has kept pace rather than coasting on its opening-year reputation.

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