Coast sits on the 54th floor of Conrad Xiamen, the Hilton group's luxury tower on Yanwu West Road in Siming district, and it commands the widest harbour view of any fine-dining room in the city — a floor-to-ceiling sweep across the strait to Gulangyu, the UNESCO-listed island of colonial villas. The hotel earned a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star rating in 2025, and Coast itself carries a listing in the inaugural MICHELIN Guide to Fujian Province, published in December 2024.
The kitchen is European-contemporary rather than Fujianese: a seasonal tasting menu built on the local catch — yellowtail scad and fourfinger threadfin among them — alongside an à-la-carte spine of dry-aged steak and a tiered seafood tower meant for the table. Reckon on roughly RMB 821 per person for dinner before wine, which the room pairs from a list deeper than most Xiamen hotels carry. Coast is operated by Conrad Xiamen under Hilton's luxury division, and there is a separate romantic bar for a pre-dinner drink before the harbour view does its work.
The occasion fit is romantic-setting dining and view-led entertaining. For proposals — the room's most common milestone use — the dusk view across to Gulangyu is the most dramatic backdrop any commercial dining room in Xiamen can offer, and the staff are practiced at window-table timing and ring-and-cake logistics. For first dates the harbour view at sundown is the city's most reliable setting, and the European menu is broadly legible. For impressing clients who have already done Hokklo and want a second-night pick with a distinct Xiamen-specific view, this is the sensible choice.
Reservations via the Conrad Xiamen website, Dianping, or the Hilton Honors concierge. Specify a harbour-view window table at booking — the non-view tables are adequate, but the view is the point. Dinner service runs 17:30–22:00; for proposals, coordinate seven to ten days ahead with the concierge and time the table for dusk.
Best for Proposal
Coast is Xiamen's proposal-dinner view pick. The floor-to-ceiling sweep across the harbour to Gulangyu's colonial villas is the city's most dramatic dining backdrop, the adjacent bar stages a pre-dinner drink, and the Conrad service team handles window-table timing professionally. Reserve a window table seven to ten days ahead and time it for dusk.
Not for authentic Fujian cooking
Not for anyone after authentic Fujian or Minnan cooking — Coast is European-contemporary, and the oyster omelettes and aged-wine seafood are a different cuisine entirely. For those, book Hokklo or Shuyou instead.