The 100 Best Places to Eat and Do in Shanghai
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The best places to eat and do in Shanghai, according to the experts: Michelin Guide, The 50, and Chinese Restaurant Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Fu He Hui comes out on top.
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Ling Long and T'ang Court hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.
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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.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: #64 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- The 50 The 50: #11 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- The 50 #64 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- The 50 #11 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 2. 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.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #9 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
- The 50 #9 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 2. T'ang Court
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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Rank 2. Taian Table
German
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 3 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 5. Da Vittorio Shanghai
Italian
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.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- 50 Top Italy 50 Top Italy: #5 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Top Italy #5 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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Rank 8. Yi Long Court
Cantonese
Art Deco screens divide the dining room into something that feels almost private, despite the scale, and the color palette leans deep enough that you half expect a saxophonist to materialize. This is the Peninsula's flagship Cantonese restaurant, holding a Michelin star, where the kitchen pairs classical technique with a quietly modern hand. The eight-seat chef's table is the room's open secret for anyone who knows to ask.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 8. Yong Yi Ting
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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Rank 10. 8 ½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana
Modern Italian
The mirrored ceiling doubles the snowy tablecloths, which tells you everything about the register here. Umberto Bombana's fine dining room, named after his favorite Fellini film, holds two Michelin stars and a Discovery nod from the World's 50 Best. Besuited waiters can discourse at length on Italian wine regions, and the aperitivo bar runs a negroni fortified with sweet wine and grapefruit bitters, so there's no reason to rush to your table anyway.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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An elegant white villa in Changning where dinner requires advance planning, because many dishes must be pre-ordered before you arrive. This is refined Chaoshan cooking, the kind built on poaching, steaming, and braising, with light, precise seafood and vegetarian preparations served across five private rooms. There is no walk-in crowd, no open dining room, and no sense of hurry. The restaurant holds two Michelin stars.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 10. Bao Li Xuan
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 10. Canton 8 (Huangpu)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 10. Ji Pin Court
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 10. The House of Rong
Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 10. Tou Zao
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 18. 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.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #29 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: #6 · Elite 15 Asia
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
- The 50 #29 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #6 · Elite 15 Asia
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 19. Canton Table
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Cheng Long Hang (Huangpu)
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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Rank 19. Da Dong (Xuhui)
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Fu 1015
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 19. Fu 1039
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Gastro Esthetics at DaDong
Contemporary Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Huaiyang Delights (Jingan)
Huaiyang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Lao Zheng Xing
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Lei Garden (Pudong)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Lei Garden (Xuhui)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Lu Style (Huangpu)
Shandong
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Maison Lameloise
French
Floor 68 of the Shanghai Tower, with The Bund spread out below like a very expensive screensaver, is where the Burgundy institution Maison Lameloise set up its China outpost. It's a fine-dining French restaurant, the kind where the tablecloths mean business, turning classic Gallic technique toward ingredients that cross cultures with more grace than the concept deserves to sound on paper. The Shanghai kitchen holds a Michelin star.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 19. Ming Court (Minhang)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Moose (Changning)
Jiangzhe
Antlers on the white walls, no moose on the menu, a century-old Shanghai mansion doing its best impression of a gallery. This is a polished Jiangzhe restaurant where the chef's decades in Huaiyang cooking show in dishes built around technique rather than trend. The crispy white teat fish, a sea cucumber preparation that arrives in a crackling crust, is exactly the kind of thing that earns a Michelin star without needing to explain itself.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 19. Moose (Pudong)
Huaiyang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Narisawa
Japanese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Obscura
Chinese
A private collection of Chinese antiques lines the walls of this low-lit, polished-wood dining room inside the Tangxiang Cultural Space on Xikang Road. Obscura holds a Michelin star for its tasting-menu cooking, which folds Sichuan tradition and forgotten regional techniques into something genuinely its own. The chef duo spent a year crossing China before opening, and the research shows on the plate without feeling like homework.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Ren He Guan (Xuhui)
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Seventh Son
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Sole
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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Rank 19. Vivant by Johnny Pham
Contemporary French
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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Rank 19. Wu You Xian
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Xin Rong Ji (West Nanjing Road)
Zhejiang Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 19. Yong Fu (Hongkou)
Ningbo Zhejiang
Ningbo cooking occupies a specific lane: intensely briny, fermented-forward, and proud of it. This upscale restaurant on the 56th floor of Raffles City The Bund leans into that tradition, anchoring the menu around wild seafood pulled from the East China Sea that morning. The room runs to aubergine walls, linen, and chandeliers, which creates a pleasant contrast with dishes built around deliberately pungent ingredients. It holds a Michelin star.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 19. Yong Fu (Huangpu)
Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Yue Hai Tang
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 19. Zhou She (Minhang)
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 56. Meet the Bund
Fujian
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.
The awards
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Rank 57. La Bourriche 133
French Seafood
Dim as the bottom of the East China Sea, this French seafood restaurant in Shanghai's Rockbund sits where Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu, and the room feels like it knows that. Leather banquettes, travertine walls, and restrained plating frame a menu that shifts with whatever the ocean is offering that season. The chef came up at Odette in Singapore, and the technique shows. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.
The awards
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Rank 58. Meet the Bund
Fujian
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.
The awards
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: #4 · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 59. 157 Shi Fang
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. A Yong Mian Guan (Dongshufang Road)
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Blossom
Teochew
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Cong's Kitchen
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Easeful Cuisine (Jingan)
Zhejiang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)
Vegan Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Hao Sheng
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. He Shan Mian Jia
Shanghainese Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Ho Hung Kee
Chinese Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Jingmei Wuxi Noodles (Yanping Road)
Wuxi Jiangsu Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Lan Xin (Jinxian Road)
Traditional Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Lao Di Fang Mian Guan
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Lu Bo Lang
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Mao Long
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Mi Thai
Thai
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Nanxiang Steamed Bun
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Ning Hai Shi Fu
Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Ou Yue Zun Xian
Wenzhou Zhejiang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Polux
Bistro French
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Rong Cuisine (Huangpu)
Zhejiang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Rongjia Noodles Soup with Yellow Croaker (Jingan)
Chinese Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Tan
Sichuan
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. The Lakeside Veggie
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. The Taste of Huzhou
Zhejiang Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Wang Lu (Pudong)
Jiangxi
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Xiao Tao Mian Guan
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Yangzhou Fan Dian (Huangpu)
Huaiyang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. YongFu Mini (Pudong)
Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Yu Du Lao Wei Mian
Zhejiang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Yu Ge Zhanjiang (Jingan)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 59. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Essential Coffee Shops in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Where to Drink Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
- World Coffee Map Essential Coffee Shops in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Where to Drink Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
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Rank 93. T12 : Lab
Coffee
The awards
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Your Guide to Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Where to Drink Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Shanghai Coffee Guide for Travelers
- World Coffee Map Your Guide to Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Where to Drink Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Shanghai Coffee Guide for Travelers
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The awards
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Your Guide to Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: 10 Best Specialty Cafes & Coffee Shops in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
- World Coffee Map Your Guide to Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map 10 Best Specialty Cafes & Coffee Shops in Shanghai
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Rank 96. 1515 West Chophouse
Steakhouse
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 96. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot
Contemporary French
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 96. Arva
Modern Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 96. Aster by Joshua Paris
Contemporary European
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 96. Bai Rong
Shandong Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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