Midrange
Chuan Wei Guan
For hot pot, this city-wide chain 5 restaurants throughout town is best, and this hotpot place also has several good sichuan dishes.
Grandma's Kitchen
å¤å©å®¶ has expanded to almost 20 locations in hangzhou, each packed to the brim with customers. it has a comprehensive picture menu and reasonable prices. not all locations offer the same selection or the same prices. one of the best is on ma cheng road, between tian mu shan and wen san roads, near to the boku bookstore. unfortunately, grandma's kitchen suffers a bit from its own popularity, making a long wait inevitable and service haphazard forgotten dishes and the like. it's best to call ahead and try to make reservations to avoid the long wait.
For American junk food, Hangzhou has many KFCs, several McDonalds, and an increasing number of Pizza Huts throughout town, especially near the lake. If you like Pizza Hut style pizza, but don't want to pay Pizza Hut prices, there's a much cheaper Pizza Hut 'clone' on You Dian Road, corner of Hubin Road, right near the lake.
Other restaurants that are good and aren't as tourist-trappy can as Lou Wai Lou are located near the West Lake, usually to the East past Hubin Road in the Yan'an Road area.
For Xinjiang, try Jade Dragon Xinjiang Special Restaurant é¾ç¿ éæ°çç¹è²é¤å inside the Handnice Hotel Originally of Tiandu Hotel on Zhongshan Bei Road at the east side of Hangzhou Yellow Dragon Sports Stadium. Some say the Xinjiang restaurant on the 5th floor of Sanrui Tower ä¸çå¤§å¦ on Qingchun Road is better and more authentic, and on the east side of town, Xinjiang Pamir Muslim Restaurant æ°çå¸ç±³å°é¤å has many Xinjiang people dining there.
Zhang Sheng Ji
å¼ çè®°, 33 east qingchun road. out of the way but is also huge and now has branches all over china.
Sherpas
(http://sherpa.com.cn) expat-founded delivery service delivering food from a range of hangzhou restaurants. english-speaking phone operators.(has ceased operations in hangzhou as of 31st of may 2012
Budget
For budget restaurants, even near the lake, just head into an alley and get some food from a small restaurant or street-side stand. You should judge for yourself how sanitary the food is, but Hangzhou is generally fairly civilized in this respect relative to other Chinese cities. These restaurants are all quite similar.
If you like dumplings and have just come down the north side of Baochu hill past the cave and in view of the soccer stadium, one option is to continue across Shuguang Road and up Hangda Road 0.5 blocks east and 1 block north to Tianmushan Road. At the corner of Tianmushan and Hangda Roads are 2 decent dumpling restaurants with English menus available one is upstairs from the other. They have many of varieties of dumplings, including all-vegetable. From 6 yuan to 18 yuan for a plateful.