Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Amazing Chinese Cuisine (Changning)


  1. Rank 2. Fu He Hui

    Refined vegetarian

    Three floors of earth-toned private dining rooms sit quietly behind the plane trees of the Former French Concession, feeling less like a restaurant than a place designed to lower your blood pressure. Fu He Hui is vegetarian fine dining with two Michelin stars and a spot on the World's 50 Best list, where set menus rotate quarterly and each course spotlights a single vegetable, fruit, or flower, paired with regional teas.





  2. Rank 6. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese


  3. Rank 7. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese


  4. Rank 8. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese


  5. Rank 9. Tou Zao

    Cantonese








  6. Rank 16. Sole

    Cantonese


  7. Rank 17. Obscura

    Sichuan


  8. Rank 18. 157 Shi Fang

    Shanghainese







  9. Rank 24. Narisawa

    Japanese





  10. Rank 28. 102 House

    Cantonese

    Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyline, which is a lot of competition for what's on the plate. This is a formal Cantonese banquet restaurant on the Bund, small enough that a few private rooms account for most of the seating. The kitchen revives a style of multi-course celebratory cooking that had largely receded from view, with seasonal menus and a sweet-and-sour pork whose sauce rotates by season. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.




  11. The brick-red interior is a deliberate nod to the Minnan courtyard houses of southern Fujian, set against floor-to-ceiling windows with the Shanghai skyline doing its thing beyond. This is Fujianese fine dining, a regional cuisine that prizes the clean, layered flavour of the ingredient itself over any attempt to dress it up. The tea pairings run from jasmine to aged pu-erh, and the kitchen holds a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.



  12. Rank 33. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


  13. Rank 34. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang



  14. Rank 36. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese



  15. Velvet tufted chairs, vintage blue bricks, and art collected from assorted corners of the world set the mood at this Hui cuisine restaurant inside the Jin Jiang Cypress Hotel. The kitchen sources most of its ingredients directly from Anhui, including mouldy tofu, a regional staple that sounds alarming and tastes like a revelation. The braised pork trotter simmers in a marinade that's been going for decades, which is either dedication or stubbornness, possibly both.





  16. Rank 42. Blossom

    Chaozhou



  17. Rank 44. Scilla

    Mediterranean



  18. Rank 46. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles


  19. Rank 47. Nabi

    Contemporary Korean





  20. Rank 51. Chun

    Shanghainese


  21. Rank 52. Mao Long

    Shanghainese



  22. Rank 54. Ling Long

    Contemporary Chinese

    White tablecloths, gloved service, crimson walls hung with avant-garde Chinese art, and a menu that gets progressively weirder as the night goes on. Ling Long is a fine dining restaurant on the Bund built around the concept of umami, with an eight-course set that traces a cross-China journey through regional terroirs. It holds a Michelin star and ranks on Asia's 50 Best list. The room is formal; the cooking is decidedly not.


  23. Rank 55. Yong Xing

    Shanghainese




  24. The Cerea family's fine-dining room sits on the third floor above the Bund, all comfortable bourgeois elegance with a wine list to match. The kitchen hunts down local Chinese produce and treats it with Italian discipline, which sounds like a concept and eats like a conviction. Paccheri alla Vittorio travels well. Two Michelin stars and a spot in the top five of 50 Top Italy's global ranking confirm the room is playing at a serious altitude.






  25. Rank 63. Mercado 505

    Seafood Spanish











  26. Rank 73. Torikaze

    Yakitori Japanese





  27. Rank 77. Stonesal

    Steakhouse



  28. Rank 79. Nuits

    Contemporary French









  29. Rank 87. Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  30. Rank 88. Mi Shang

    Sicilian


  31. Rank 89. Polux

    Bistro French



  32. Rank 91. Mercato

    Italian


  33. Rank 92. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French





  34. Rank 96. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese






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