Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Royal China Club

  1. 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.




  2. Rank 4. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese







  3. Rank 10. 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.





  4. Rank 14. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese


  5. Rank 15. Numata Sou

    Tempura Japanese



  6. Rank 17. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese


  7. Rank 18. Bai Rong

    Shandong





  8. Rank 22. The Meat

    Steakhouse




  9. Rank 25. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)

    Shanghainese Vegetarian





  10. Rank 29. Mr & Mrs Bund

    Contemporary French



  11. Rank 31. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese


  12. Rank 32. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


  13. Rank 33. Kanpai Classic (Huangpu)

    Australian Wagyu Barbecue


  14. Rank 34. Cuivre

    Contemporary French


  15. Rank 35. Sui Tang Li

    Contemporary Chinese



  16. Rank 37. 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.





  17. Rank 41. Shanghai Tavern

    Contemporary American



  18. 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.


  19. Rank 44. 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.



  20. Rank 46. Tou Zao

    Cantonese









  21. Rank 54. Hakkasan

    Modern Cantonese


  22. Rank 55. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse


  23. Rank 56. Sole

    Cantonese






  24. Rank 61. Obscura

    Sichuan




  25. Rank 64. Narisawa

    Japanese




  26. Rank 67. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese


  27. Rank 68. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese





  28. Rank 72. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese




  29. Rank 75. Polux

    Bistro French



  30. Rank 77. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  31. Rank 78. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese



  32. Min Cai, the cooking of Fujian province, rarely gets the fine dining treatment, and Shanghai's 56th floor is an unlikely place to find it done seriously. Meet the Bund is a formal tasting restaurant where the chef reframes a regional tradition that tends to get overlooked in favor of flashier Chinese cuisines. The broth for the signature slow-cooked abalone dish takes several days to build, which tells you the kitchen's general attitude toward shortcuts.




  33. Rank 83. Mao Long

    Shanghainese


  34. Rank 84. Chun

    Shanghainese



  35. Rank 86. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles





  36. Rank 90. Blossom

    Chaozhou







  37. Rank 96. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang





  38. Rank 100. Les Nuages

    Chinese-European New American


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