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The Best Places in East Jing'an

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    Address
    484 Jian Guo Xi Lu, Xu Hui Qu, Shang Hai Shi, China, 200031 · Shanghai
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    Closed now, opens Fri 7 AM

    Thursday 7 AM–10 AM, Noon–2 PM, 6 PM–8:30 PM

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  3. Rank 3. Bao Li Xuan

    Cantonese

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  5. Rank 3. Tou Zao

    Cantonese

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  6. Rank 6. 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.


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  11. Rank 7. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese

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  13. Rank 7. Seventh Son

    Cantonese

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  14. Rank 7. Sole

    Cantonese

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  16. Rank 7. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


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  20. Rank 7. Yong Fu (Huangpu)

    Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood

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  21. 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.




  22. Rank 24. Pony Up

    American Cocktail Bar

    Checkered tiles, timber walls, and green leather stools that look like a diner lost its passport and ended up in Huangpu. Pony Up is an all-day bar on Jinxian Road, open from early afternoon so the post-lunch crowd has somewhere respectable to be. The signature Cigar cocktail layers vermouth, absinthe, and a house smoke-infused spirit. Asia's 50 Best Bars has it on their Discovery list.


  23. Rank 26. Blossom

    Teochew

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  25. Rank 26. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese

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  27. Rank 26. Ho Hung Kee

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  28. Rank 26. Lan Xin (Jinxian Road)

    Traditional Shanghainese

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  29. Rank 26. Mao Long

    Shanghainese

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  34. Rank 39. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot

    Contemporary French

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  40. Address
    551 Bei Jing Xi Lu, Jing An Qu, Shang Hai Shi, China, 200041
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 11 min

    Thursday 10 AM–10 PM

  41. Rank 39. Mi Shang

    Sicilian

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  43. Rank 39. Shanghai

    Shanghainese

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  44. Rank 39. Shanghai Club

    Shanghainese

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  45. Rank 39. Shanghai Tavern

    Contemporary American

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    Address
    1F, Shanghai Edition, 199 East Nanjing Road, Huangpu, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, Chinese Mainland · Shanghai
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 11 min

    Thursday 6:30 AM–10:30 AM, 11:30 AM–4:30 PM, 5:30 PM–10 PM

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  46. Rank 39. Shaughnessy

    Steakhouse

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  47. Rank 39. Summer Palace

    Cantonese

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  48. Rank 39. The Pine

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  50. Address
    415 Shan Xi Bei Lu, Jing An Qu, Shang Hai Shi, China, 200041
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Fri 10 AM

    Thursday 10 AM–9:30 PM

  51. You walk into Barules through a scarlet London phone box, which sets the tone nicely. Inside, this cocktail bar pays quiet tribute to the craft, with portraits of bartending legends lining the walls and glass cabinets full of cocktail kit. The menu leans fresh and fruit-forward rather than classical, which surprises you given all the reverence on display. A bar for people who know the names on those portraits and enjoy the slight irony of ordering something bright and tropical beneath them.


  52. A retro Coca-Cola vending machine in what looks like an abandoned sandwich shop turns out to be the door, which is exactly the kind of entrance Flask deserves. The bar sits behind it down a narrow brick passage that fire marshals would probably prefer not to know about. It's the sort of cocktail bar that makes you feel briefly like a genius for finding it, then immediately guilty for telling anyone.


  53. Rank 56. Oji

    Speakeasy

    Dial zero on the retro telephone tucked inside El Ocho and a door opens into a 17-seat cocktail bar where there is no menu, only a conversation. The bartender listens, then builds something to order, while hot towels and crystal water glasses set a register closer to Tokyo than Shanghai. The passion here is personal in a way a larger room could never sustain.


  54. Rank 59. Barber Shop

    Cocktail Bar


  55. Rank 59. El Ocho

    Cocktail Bar

    A warren of mirror-lined rooms on the third floor of Zhang Yuan, this cocktail bar runs on velvet seats, low light, and a sunken bar that makes the whole place feel like a speakeasy someone actually finished decorating. The menu skews classical, organized by Old-Fashioneds, Flips, Tiki, and the rest, with dark spirits leading the charge. The name is Spanish for eight, which is lucky, which the Chinese know, which means the odds are already in your favor.


  56. Tucked into the first floor of an apartment block on Wukang Lu, this cocktail bar commits to a decorating scheme where Qing dynasty meets Louis XVI, with gilt, lacquer, velvet in purple and scarlet, lion heads, and birdcages all arriving at once. The menu balances house originals against classics like the Bramble and Sidecar, though the room has already done most of the theatrical heavy lifting before your drink arrives.


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      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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