Wednesday, September 2, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Qiao Ai Lai Lai Xiao Long (Huangpu)


  1. Rank 2. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese


  2. Rank 3. 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 5. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


  4. Rank 6. 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.



  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 12. Cong's Kitchen

    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 19. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese













  9. Rank 31. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)

    Shanghainese Vegetarian


  10. Rank 32. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese




  11. Rank 35. Sui Tang Li

    Contemporary Chinese



  12. Rank 37. Cuivre

    Contemporary French


  13. Rank 38. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse


  14. Rank 39. Hakkasan

    Modern Cantonese


  15. Rank 40. Polux

    Bistro French


  16. Rank 41. Shanghai Tavern

    Contemporary American


  17. Rank 42. Kanpai Classic (Huangpu)

    Australian Wagyu Barbecue


  18. Rank 43. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese



  19. Rank 45. Tou Zao

    Cantonese





  20. Rank 49. Mr & Mrs Bund

    Contemporary French



  21. Rank 51. 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.



  22. Rank 53. Sole

    Cantonese


  23. Rank 54. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese








  24. Rank 61. Mao Long

    Shanghainese


  25. Rank 62. Obscura

    Sichuan


  26. Rank 63. The Meat

    Steakhouse







  27. Rank 69. Narisawa

    Japanese




  28. Rank 72. Chun

    Shanghainese






  29. Rank 77. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese




  30. Rank 80. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese


  31. Rank 81. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese


  32. Rank 82. Blossom

    Chaozhou


  33. Rank 83. Bai Rong

    Shandong






  34. Rank 88. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles




  35. Rank 91. Mi Shang

    Sicilian


  36. Rank 92. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French


  37. Rank 93. Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  38. Rank 94. Numata Sou

    Tempura Japanese








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