Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Fabula




  1. Rank 4. Tou Zao

    Cantonese



  2. Rank 6. Sole

    Cantonese






  3. Rank 11. Obscura

    Sichuan


  4. Rank 12. 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.




  5. Rank 15. Blossom

    Chaozhou


  6. Rank 16. Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  7. Rank 17. Mi Shang

    Sicilian


  8. Rank 18. Mao Long

    Shanghainese


  9. 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.




  10. Rank 22. Chun

    Shanghainese





  11. Rank 26. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles



  12. Rank 28. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French






  13. Rank 33. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang


  14. Rank 34. Nuits

    Contemporary French


  15. Rank 35. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French



  16. Rank 37. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese





  17. Rank 41. 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.



  18. Rank 43. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese




  19. Rank 46. Stonesal

    Steakhouse






  20. Rank 51. Polux

    Bistro French




  21. Rank 54. Mercato

    Italian



  22. Rank 56. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese



  23. Rank 58. Mercado 505

    Seafood Spanish




  24. Rank 61. 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.


  25. Rank 62. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese



  26. Rank 64. Torikaze

    Yakitori Japanese


  27. 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.



  28. Rank 67. Narisawa

    Japanese


  29. Rank 68. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese





  30. Rank 72. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese










  31. Rank 81. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese
















  32. Rank 96. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse






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