Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Taste Buds Cocktail Palace

  1. Rank 1. 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 3. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French



  4. Rank 5. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese












  5. Rank 16. 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.




  6. Rank 19. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese







  7. Rank 25. Polux

    Bistro French


  8. Rank 26. Tou Zao

    Cantonese



  9. 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.



  10. Rank 30. Mao Long

    Shanghainese


  11. Rank 31. Sole

    Cantonese



  12. Rank 33. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse




  13. Rank 36. Chun

    Shanghainese




  14. Rank 39. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese



  15. Rank 41. Cuivre

    Contemporary French



  16. Rank 43. Sui Tang Li

    Contemporary Chinese



  17. Rank 45. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese


  18. Rank 46. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese




  19. Rank 49. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese


  20. Rank 50. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles





  21. Rank 54. 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 56. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French


  23. Rank 57. Obscura

    Sichuan


  24. Rank 58. Blossom

    Chaozhou




  25. Rank 61. Kanpai Classic (Huangpu)

    Australian Wagyu Barbecue


  26. Rank 62. Shanghai Tavern

    Contemporary American



  27. Rank 64. Mi Shang

    Sicilian



  28. Rank 66. Hakkasan

    Modern Cantonese


  29. Rank 67. Shanghai

    Shanghainese



  30. Rank 69. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)

    Shanghainese Vegetarian











  31. Rank 79. Mr & Mrs Bund

    Contemporary French





  32. Rank 83. Narisawa

    Japanese





  33. Rank 87. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese



  34. Rank 89. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese




  35. Rank 92. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese


  36. Rank 93. Mercato

    Italian


  37. Rank 94. The Meat

    Steakhouse






  38. Rank 99. Nuits

    Contemporary French



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