Wednesday, September 2, 2026

The Top 100 Restaurants Near Xin Yuan Lou














  1. Rank 14. 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.




  2. 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.




  3. Rank 20. 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 22. Tou Zao

    Cantonese



  5. Rank 24. Jin Xuan

    Cantonese


  6. Rank 25. 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.









  7. Rank 33. Sole

    Cantonese


  8. Rank 34. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French



  9. Rank 36. Mercato

    Italian


  10. Rank 37. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese


  11. Rank 38. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese


  12. Rank 39. Fu 1088

    Shanghainese




  13. 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.



  14. Rank 44. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese




  15. Rank 47. Obscura

    Sichuan









  16. Rank 55. Narisawa

    Japanese



  17. Rank 57. Torikaze

    Yakitori Japanese


  18. Rank 58. Polux

    Bistro French




  19. Rank 61. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)

    Shanghainese Noodles



  20. Rank 63. Chun

    Shanghainese




  21. Rank 66. Mao Long

    Shanghainese








  22. Rank 73. Blossom

    Chaozhou



  23. Rank 75. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang


  24. Rank 76. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese




  25. Rank 79. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  26. Rank 80. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French


  27. Rank 81. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese





  28. Rank 85. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese


  29. Rank 86. 157 Shi Fang

    Shanghainese




  30. Rank 89. Yong Xing

    Shanghainese


  31. Rank 90. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)

    Shanghainese Vegetarian







  32. Rank 96. Mercado 505

    Seafood Spanish



  33. Rank 98. Shanghai

    Shanghainese


  34. Rank 99. Nuits

    Contemporary French



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