Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Mercato












  1. Rank 12. Tou Zao

    Cantonese


  2. Rank 13. Sole

    Cantonese





  3. Rank 17. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles


  4. Rank 18. Chun

    Shanghainese




  5. Rank 21. Mao Long

    Shanghainese





  6. Rank 25. 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.



  7. Rank 27. Polux

    Bistro French


  8. 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.


  9. Rank 29. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French






  10. Rank 34. Stonesal

    Steakhouse





  11. Rank 38. Torikaze

    Yakitori Japanese




  12. Rank 41. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French





  13. Rank 45. Blossom

    Chaozhou



  14. Rank 47. Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  15. 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.







  16. Rank 54. Nuits

    Contemporary French




  17. Rank 57. Mi Shang

    Sicilian



  18. Rank 59. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese






  19. Rank 64. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese


  20. Rank 65. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese


  21. Rank 66. 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.


  22. 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.




  23. Rank 70. Obscura

    Sichuan




  24. Rank 73. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese



  25. Rank 75. Mercado 505

    Seafood Spanish


  26. Rank 76. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang


  27. Rank 77. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese





  28. Rank 81. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese













  29. Rank 93. Narisawa

    Japanese









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