Meat and greet

Executive chef Robert Stern tries to give customers "a culinary tour of the world" at the CBD, a Western style restaurant on the 1st floor of Grand Millennium Beijing.

Indeed, the restaurant provides both Asian and Western cuisines, catering to in-house guests and visitors, and operates 24/7. Besides grilled beef tenderloin and rib eye from Australia and lamb chops from New Zealand, the diner can make their own Western salad, and choose from Asian lobster, Japanese sushi and sashimi, or Italian pizza and pasta cooked to order.

The spacious grill restaurant operates in an open-kitchen format, so you can see from your table as your meal is cooked. There is a deli station, as well as a Havana bar, where there is a snack menu with a Spanish influence. The chef has certainly worked on providing variety and flexibility - chances are they'll cook to order almost anything you ask for.