Wednesday, September 2, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Rongjia Noodles Soup with Yellow Croaker (Jingan)



  1. 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.


  2. 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.



  3. Rank 6. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French





  4. Rank 10. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese



  5. Rank 12. Tou Zao

    Cantonese




  6. Rank 15. Sole

    Cantonese






  7. Rank 20. Mao Long

    Shanghainese


  8. Rank 21. Polux

    Bistro French


  9. Rank 22. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese





  10. Rank 26. Chun

    Shanghainese





  11. Rank 30. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles




  12. Rank 33. Blossom

    Chaozhou





  13. Rank 37. 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 38. Obscura

    Sichuan





  15. Rank 42. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French


  16. Rank 43. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese



  17. Rank 45. Mi Shang

    Sicilian


  18. Rank 46. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse


  19. Rank 47. Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  20. 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.





  21. Rank 52. 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 59. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese


  23. Rank 60. Cuivre

    Contemporary French



  24. Rank 62. Mercato

    Italian





  25. Rank 66. Sui Tang Li

    Contemporary Chinese


  26. Rank 67. Nuits

    Contemporary French









  27. Rank 75. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese


  28. Rank 76. Narisawa

    Japanese





  29. Rank 80. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese





  30. Rank 84. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese


  31. Rank 85. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese



  32. Rank 87. Stonesal

    Steakhouse


  33. Rank 88. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese






  34. Rank 93. Kanpai Classic (Huangpu)

    Australian Wagyu Barbecue


  35. Rank 94. Shanghai Tavern

    Contemporary American


  36. Rank 95. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang



  37. Rank 97. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)

    Shanghainese Vegetarian



  38. Rank 99. Hakkasan

    Modern Cantonese



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