The Best Places in Shanghai
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Rank 137. Xin Yuan Lou
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 137. Xuji Seafood (Xuhui)
Hunan Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 137. Yè Shanghai
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 137. Yong Feng Mian Guan (Huangpu)
Chinese Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 137. Yong Jiang Zhen
Jiangzhe
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 137. Yong Xing
Huaiyang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Check-in happens at Bar Moxy, which sets the tone: this is a hotel that skips the marble lobby in favor of a drink and a barstool. Rooms are compact and unapologetically functional, with floor-to-ceiling windows, walk-in rain showers, and enough USB ports to charge a small film crew. It sits close to the convention center, Hongqiao rail, and the airport, which explains the guests. The front desk doubles as a local guide, so ask.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 208. 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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 211. M Stand
Coffee
The awards
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Best coffee shops for work in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Best cafes for reading in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Best coffee shops for work in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Best cafes for reading in Shanghai
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Rank 212. Barber Shop
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 212. 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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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The awards
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The awards
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