Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Cong's Kitchen

  1. Rank 1. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese


  2. Rank 2. 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.


  3. Rank 3. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese



  4. Rank 5. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


  5. 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.






  6. Rank 11. 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.














  7. 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.





  8. Rank 28. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese


  9. Rank 29. Tou Zao

    Cantonese





  10. Rank 33. Sui Tang Li

    Contemporary Chinese


  11. Rank 34. Polux

    Bistro French


  12. Rank 35. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse


  13. Rank 36. Hakkasan

    Modern Cantonese



  14. Rank 38. Cuivre

    Contemporary French




  15. Rank 41. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)

    Shanghainese Vegetarian


  16. Rank 42. Shanghai Tavern

    Contemporary American


  17. Rank 43. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese



  18. Rank 45. Kanpai Classic (Huangpu)

    Australian Wagyu Barbecue


  19. Rank 46. Sole

    Cantonese



  20. Rank 48. 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.




  21. Rank 51. Obscura

    Sichuan



  22. Rank 53. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese


  23. Rank 54. Mao Long

    Shanghainese





  24. Rank 58. Mr & Mrs Bund

    Contemporary French




  25. Rank 61. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese



  26. Rank 63. Narisawa

    Japanese





  27. Rank 67. Chun

    Shanghainese






  28. Rank 72. Blossom

    Chaozhou




  29. Rank 75. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese





  30. Rank 79. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese


  31. Rank 80. The Meat

    Steakhouse


  32. Rank 81. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese


  33. Rank 82. Mi Shang

    Sicilian



  34. Rank 84. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles




  35. Rank 87. Shanghai

    Shanghainese



  36. Rank 89. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French






  37. Rank 94. Bai Rong

    Shandong





  38. Rank 98. Numata Sou

    Tempura Japanese




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