Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Cellar to Table





  1. Rank 5. Tou Zao

    Cantonese







  2. Rank 11. Sole

    Cantonese



  3. Rank 13. Stonesal

    Steakhouse



  4. Rank 15. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles







  5. Rank 21. Chun

    Shanghainese


  6. Rank 22. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese



  7. Rank 24. Mao Long

    Shanghainese


  8. Rank 25. 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.




  9. Rank 28. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese


  10. Rank 29. Blossom

    Chaozhou


  11. Rank 30. Torikaze

    Yakitori Japanese



  12. Rank 32. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang




  13. Rank 35. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French



  14. Rank 37. Mercato

    Italian


  15. Rank 38. Obscura

    Sichuan




  16. Rank 41. Nuits

    Contemporary French




  17. Rank 44. Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  18. Rank 45. Mercado 505

    Seafood Spanish



  19. Rank 47. Mi Shang

    Sicilian




  20. Rank 50. 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.







  21. Rank 56. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese


  22. 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.












  23. Rank 68. Polux

    Bistro French


  24. Rank 69. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


  25. Rank 70. 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.




  26. 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.



  27. Rank 75. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese



  28. Rank 77. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese









  29. Rank 85. Narisawa

    Japanese



  30. Rank 87. Yong Xing

    Shanghainese











  31. Rank 97. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese





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