Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Upper House Shanghai


  1. Rank 2. 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 9. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French



  4. Rank 11. Tou Zao

    Cantonese


  5. Rank 12. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese





  6. Rank 16. Sole

    Cantonese




  7. Rank 19. Mao Long

    Shanghainese


  8. Rank 20. Chun

    Shanghainese





  9. Rank 24. Polux

    Bistro French


  10. Rank 25. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese




  11. Rank 28. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles



  12. Rank 30. Obscura

    Sichuan



  13. Rank 32. Blossom

    Chaozhou






  14. Rank 37. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French


  15. Rank 38. Mi Shang

    Sicilian


  16. Rank 39. Shanghai

    Shanghainese





  17. Rank 43. 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.




  18. Rank 46. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese






  19. Rank 51. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse


  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 56. 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 58. Nuits

    Contemporary French



  23. Rank 60. Mercato

    Italian





  24. Rank 64. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese






  25. Rank 69. Stonesal

    Steakhouse


  26. Rank 70. Cuivre

    Contemporary French



  27. Rank 72. Narisawa

    Japanese



  28. Rank 74. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese






  29. Rank 79. Sui Tang Li

    Contemporary Chinese




  30. Rank 82. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese





  31. Rank 86. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese


  32. Rank 87. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang



  33. Rank 89. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese







  34. Rank 95. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese







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