Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Polux

  1. Rank 1. Polux

    Bistro French




  2. Rank 4. 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 6. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French




  4. 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.




  5. Rank 12. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese



  6. Rank 14. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese







  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 24. Mao Long

    Shanghainese



  9. Rank 26. Chun

    Shanghainese




  10. Rank 29. Tou Zao

    Cantonese



  11. Rank 31. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse






  12. Rank 36. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles



  13. Rank 38. 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.






  14. Rank 43. Sole

    Cantonese


  15. Rank 44. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese





  16. Rank 48. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French



  17. Rank 50. Mercato

    Italian




  18. Rank 53. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese


  19. Rank 54. Cuivre

    Contemporary French





  20. Rank 58. 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 60. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese



  22. Rank 62. Sui Tang Li

    Contemporary Chinese








  23. Rank 69. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese



  24. Rank 71. Shanghai

    Shanghainese




  25. Rank 74. Blossom

    Chaozhou


  26. Rank 75. Obscura

    Sichuan




  27. Rank 78. Mi Shang

    Sicilian







  28. Rank 84. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese


  29. Rank 85. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese


  30. Rank 86. Narisawa

    Japanese



  31. Rank 88. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese




  32. Rank 91. Stonesal

    Steakhouse


  33. Rank 92. Kanpai Classic (Huangpu)

    Australian Wagyu Barbecue



  34. Rank 94. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)

    Shanghainese Vegetarian


  35. Rank 95. Bai Rong

    Shandong


  36. Rank 96. Shanghai Tavern

    Contemporary American


  37. Rank 97. Mr & Mrs Bund

    Contemporary French



  38. Rank 99. Nuits

    Contemporary French



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