The Best Places to Eat and Stay in Shanghai
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Rank 75. The Lakeside Veggie
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. The Taste of Huzhou
Zhejiang Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. Wang Lu (Pudong)
Jiangxi
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. Xiao Tao Mian Guan
Noodle Shop
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. Yangzhou Fan Dian (Huangpu)
Huaiyang
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. YongFu Mini (Pudong)
Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. Yu Du Lao Wei Mian
Zhejiang
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. Yu Ge Zhanjiang (Jingan)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The top-floor Char Bar has views of the Pudong skyline that make the room feel like a screensaver, except you're holding a drink. This design-forward boutique hotel on the Bund pairs high-end rooms with interiors that swing hard between ancient Chinese motifs and bold contemporary color, which could easily go wrong and mostly doesn't. Many rooms look out over the Huangpu River, and the riverside café downstairs gives you the same view at breakfast.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Terra cotta bricks by Swiss-Italian architect Mario Botta give this business hotel in the old French Concession a geometric facade that feels deliberate rather than decorative. Inside, an elliptical courtyard offers an unlikely patch of green, and rooms go Art Deco with a Chinese inflection, big windows, and bathrooms that lean generous. Restaurants cover both international and Cantonese ground, and the spa has a solid reputation around town.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The name sets expectations that the address quietly overturns: this InterContinental is not a tower above the skyline but a century-old estate, gardens and all, that once served as the State Guest House. European-style buildings sit amid parkland that most Shanghai hotels would trade their infinity pools for. The rooms and spa are as polished as any in the chain; guests just happen to fall asleep somewhere that feels nothing like a hotel.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Kempinski The One Suites skips hotel rooms entirely, offering only suites, some with kitchenettes, others with full kitchens for something closer to a residential stay. The Deco-influenced décor and generous bathrooms lean polished without tipping into cold, and the building sits above Jing'an within easy range of decent retail and nightlife. A Noevir spa, pool, gym, and a terrace cocktail bar fill out the hours between checkout and the inevitable rescheduling of checkout.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The lobby's floating crystal centerpiece is built around Shanghai's official flower, the magnolia, and that single decision tells you everything about how this luxury hotel thinks. Rooms face either the historic Bund embankment or the Pudong skyline, and the dining options run from a glass-bloomed Chinese restaurant to an all-day room styled, apparently without irony, after The Wizard of Oz.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Full-length windows in every room frame the Pudong skyline from inside the Lujiazui business district, which is either the view or the commute, depending on why you're here. This is a luxury hotel pitched squarely at business travelers, with Art Deco rooms that manage to feel considered rather than corporate. The spa sits on the top floor, the indoor pool shares that same skyline, and the restaurant options run from Italian to teppanyaki to an extravagant Cantonese spread across five private dining rooms.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A giant thumb sculpture anchors the lobby lounge, which is either a provocation or a perfect metaphor for Pudong, depending on your mood. This full-service hotel sits in one of Shanghai's most architecturally restless neighborhoods, and the building commits: bold common spaces give way to cloud-white guest rooms that feel like a deliberate exhale. Four restaurants, a pool, tennis, and meeting facilities round out a property that runs on energy rather than hush.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The public spaces lean into chiaroscuro drama, all shadow and contrast, while the rooms pull back toward something calmer and more textured, with metal and stone and fabric sharing the same walls. A rooftop infinity pool floats above Pudong in case you need reminding you're not in Paris, though Le Chloé downstairs does its level best to keep that particular illusion going. A Michelin Selected Hotel, and one of the more theatrically designed boutique options in Shanghai.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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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: Where to Drink Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Essential Coffee Shops in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
- World Coffee Map Where to Drink Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Essential Coffee Shops in Shanghai
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Rank 119. T12 : Lab
Coffee
The awards
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Shanghai Coffee Guide for Travelers
- 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 Shanghai Coffee Guide for Travelers
- World Coffee Map Your Guide to Coffee in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Where to Drink Coffee in Shanghai
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Rooms here are laid out more like apartments than hotel suites, with kitchenettes, separate living and sleeping zones, and floor-to-ceiling windows over the Shanghai skyline. Tucked into the MixC complex near Ziteng Road Metro, it sits close to the airport, rail, and convention center, which explains the clientele. The 24-hour gym sits next to the laundry room, a pairing that tells you everything about who stays here and for how long.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 123. Café del Volcán
Coffee
The awards
- 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 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
- World Coffee Map Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
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A neon-lit cube perched atop the Himalayas Center, this Pudong hotel looks like a Blade Runner set that got a little too into itself. The Burj Al Arab people built it, so the public spaces lean hard into spectacle, but the rooms pull back into calm, contemporary Chinese classicism. A 14-story interior atrium handles the drama from inside. Shopping, an art museum, and a maglev link are all on the doorstep.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Seven rooms, a garden yoga class, and a lobby that feels borrowed from someone's very tasteful apartment: this boutique hotel in Minhang runs more like a neighborhood guesthouse than a Shanghai address. Pale wood, white walls, and potted greenery keep things calm, while the restaurant handles both Chinese and British dishes without committing to either identity. Free shuttle to Hongqiao Airport, which the couples who fill this place seem to find very convenient.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 127. 1515 West Chophouse
Steakhouse
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Rank 127. 1929 by Guillaume Galliot
Contemporary French
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Arva
Modern Italian
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Aster by Joshua Paris
Contemporary European
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Bai Rong
Shandong Seafood
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Beef & Liberty (Jingan)
American
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Cellar to Table
Italian
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Chaimen Hui (Pudong)
Sichuan
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Chuan Yue Hai Tang (Changning)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Companion Coffee
Coffee
The awards
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: 10 Best Specialty Cafes & Coffee Shops in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Essential Coffee Shops in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
- World Coffee Map 10 Best Specialty Cafes & Coffee Shops in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Essential Coffee Shops in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
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Rank 127. Coquille
French
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Cuivre
Contemporary French
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. De Xing Guan (Guangdong Road)
Shanghainese Noodle Shop
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Ding Te Le Zhou Mian Guan
Noodle Shop
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Dining Room
Zhejiang
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Dong Ping Chao
Teochew
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Fucheng
Minnan
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Gongxi Gongxi (Pudong)
Zhejiang Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Hai Wei Guan (Jingan)
Shanghainese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Hakkasan
Modern Cantonese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Hang Yuen Hin
Cantonese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Hokkien Huay Kuan
Fujian
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Hong Yu Fang
Chinese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Hui Ji
Anhui
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Jean Georges
French
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Kanpai Classic (Huangpu)
Australian Wagyu Barbecue
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. La Scene Ronde
French
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Legend Taste (Jingan)
Dai Yunnan
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Les Nuages
Contemporary Shanghainese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Lin Jiang Yan
Creative Huaiyang
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Mercado 505
Seafood Spanish
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Mercato
Italian
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Mi Shang
Sicilian
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Min He Nan Huan Xi
Fujian
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Mr & Mrs Bund
Contemporary French
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Nabi
Contemporary Korean
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Nan Xing Yuan
Sichuan
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Nuits
Contemporary French
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Numata Sou
Tempura Japanese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Pop
Classic European
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Royal China Club
Cantonese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Scarpetta
Italian
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Scilla
Mediterranean
A Tuscan-born chef running a Mediterranean restaurant inside an art deco brick mansion on Panyu Road is either a very good idea or a very Shanghai one, and here it turns out to be both. The room leans into the Riviera fantasy with white tablecloths and big sunny windows, while the kitchen keeps things grounded with local Chinese produce on the plate. Relaxed enough to feel easy, polished enough to feel considered.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 127. Shanghai
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Shanghai Club
Shanghainese
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Rank 127. Shanghai Tavern
Contemporary American
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Shaughnessy
Steakhouse
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 127. Stonesal
Steakhouse
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Sui Tang Li
Contemporary Chinese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Summer Palace
Cantonese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. The Meat
Steakhouse
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Rank 127. The Pine
European
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Rank 127. Toi Sihng Lauh Yuht
Cantonese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Torikaze
Yakitori Japanese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Trine
Sichuan
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Undef Ne
Coffee
The awards
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Shanghai Coffee Map for First-Time Visitors
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Shanghai Coffee Guide for Travelers
- 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 Shanghai Coffee Guide for Travelers
- World Coffee Map 10 Best Specialty Cafes & Coffee Shops in Shanghai
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Velvet tufted chairs, vintage blue bricks, and art collected from assorted corners of the world set the mood at this Hui cuisine restaurant inside the Jin Jiang Cypress Hotel. The kitchen sources most of its ingredients directly from Anhui, including mouldy tofu, a regional staple that sounds alarming and tastes like a revelation. The braised pork trotter simmers in a marinade that's been going for decades, which is either dedication or stubbornness, possibly both.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Wei Xiang Zhai (Yandang Road)
Chinese Noodle Shop
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Wenzhou Said
Zhejiang
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Xin Yuan Lou
Cantonese
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Xuji Seafood (Xuhui)
Hunan Seafood
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Yè Shanghai
Shanghainese
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Rank 127. Yong Feng Mian Guan (Huangpu)
Chinese Noodle Shop
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 127. Yong Jiang Zhen
Jiangzhe
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Rank 127. Yong Xing
Huaiyang
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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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Rank 198. M Stand
Coffee
The awards
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Best cafes for reading in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map World Coffee Map: Best coffee shops for work in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Best cafes for reading in Shanghai
- World Coffee Map Best coffee shops for work in Shanghai