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Best new restaurants in Shanghai 2025

Best New Restaurants in Shanghai 2025 & Memorable Meals

Where to buy galette de rois, king cake in Shanghai.

Where To Find Galette De Rois in Shanghai

Shanghai's most iconic rooftop restaurant and bar Flair reopens after a facelift. The best view in Shanghai at The Ritz-Carlton Pudong, Shanghai. @ Nomfluence

Best Rooftop Bars in Shanghai (Updated 2025)

Where to find Panettone in Shanghai, the Italian Christmas bread.

The Best Panettone in Shanghai for An Italian Christmas

Ren He Guan (人和馆) is an excellent Shanghainese restaurant in Shanghai. A Michelin one-star with an average check of ¥250 per person.

Best Shanghainese Restaurants in Shanghai

Alea is a contemporary Western restaurant in Shanghai

Alea Shanghai: Casual Fine Dining with Chinese Accents

Alea is a casual fine dining restaurant in Shanghai where Ningbo heritage meets modern Western technique in an intimate six-table setting.
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Sultan is a halal Turkish restaurant in Jing'an, Shanghai.

Sultan Shanghai: Turkish Halal Restaurant With A Massive Menu

Sultan Shanghai serves up an A-to-Z menu of Turkish halal dishes, from mezze and kebabs to breads and baklava in a grand setting.
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A shortlist of restaurant and bar closures in Shanghai this year. Venues citing COVID-19, others closed prior to the outbreak, while some have rebranded.

The Big List of Restaurant Closures in Shanghai 2025

A bookkeeping of the city’s ever-changing restaurant scene. More than 90 notable restaurant closures in Shanghai in 2025.
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Best new restaurants in Shanghai 2025

Best New Restaurants in Shanghai 2025 & Memorable Meals

A definitive guide to the best new restaurants in Shanghai from 2025 featured on Nomfluence.
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Where to buy galette de rois, king cake in Shanghai.

Where To Find Galette De Rois in Shanghai

​It’s the season for Galette des Rois! Here’s where you can order these deliciously fun almond custard pastries in Shanghai.
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Laizhou Bar is a contemporary Chinese restaurant serving modern Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan food in Shanghai

Tasty New Modern Chinese Bites at Laizhou Gastrobar

New cozier and brighter interiors, and not just Sichuan, but also Yunnan and Guizhou food at Laizhou Bar.
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New Year's Eve dinner and parties in Shanghai

Where to Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Shanghai

Spending New Year’s Eve in Shanghai? Here’s a hand-picked list of dinners and parties for your celebration needs.
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Rambu, a creative Southeast Asian restaurant in Shanghai.

Rambu Levels Up Southeast Asian Flavors in Shanghai

Rambu puts a bold, creative spin on Southeast Asian cuisine — it’s new, yet oddly familiar. This season’s hottest new opening.
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Spago Shanghai by Wolfgang Puck, iconic restaurant on the Bund with great views.

Spago Shanghai: New Year’s Eve Dinner & Countdown Party

Countdown at Spago Shanghai — dinner and a party with free-flow, set to the Bund view. Get 50% off the party package!
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Shanghai's most iconic rooftop restaurant and bar Flair reopens after a facelift. The best view in Shanghai at The Ritz-Carlton Pudong, Shanghai. @ Nomfluence

Best Rooftop Bars in Shanghai (Updated 2025)

Toast champagne at the best rooftop bars in Shanghai! A dozen venues to choose from, including the highest rooftop bar in Shanghai.
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Rachel Gouk | Writing about food & drink since 2011

Rambu has been THE opening of the season. It’s fam Rambu has been THE opening of the season. It’s familiar, nostalgic, and playful, done with care and confidence. And honestly, as a Malaysian, it makes me feel so proud to see the flavors of home done like this. 

Kudos to chef @junnishiyama and team!

The veritable signature is the Rendang Donut, a labor of love. Slow-cooked oxtail with deep spices (and chocolate) is compacted into an utterly rich bite.

The Ayam Penyetttt!!! lives up to its exclamation points. The Indonesian-inspired “smashed chicken” is shattering crisp, paired with turmeric aioli and pineapple sambal. Do not miss this.

Next, Nasi Ulam, a rice salad combines fresh herbs, sambal, crunchy shallots and chicken skin. A flavor-bomb that’s pulls at nostalgia.

Rambu even features far-flung ingredients like buah keluak, an earthy-bitter complex flavored nut native to Malaysia. That’s paired with spiced butter and fat creamy mussels on flatbread.

Channeling street food energy is the grilled mutton skewers, wrapped in betel leaf. Meanwhile grilled ox tongue is soaked in an addictive sourdough dashi broth, dusted with toasted rice powder.

Finally, an elevated kaya toast! Homemade kaya, ice cold butter, but with salted egg yolk and a mad genius egg-and-soy cream. Don’t miss the Thai creme caramel. Full Thai tea flavors with this one, paired beautifully with pecans and grilled watermelon & calamansi reduction.

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🔘 @rambu.sh 
📍 966 Wuding Road 武定路966号
📞 19921361351
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#shanghaieats #shanghaifood #onthetable #shanghairestaurant #malaysianfood
A throwback to my early days in Shanghai. Bifengta A throwback to my early days in Shanghai. Bifengtang — the HK-style Cantonese restaurant that’s been slingin’ crispy garlic madness since 1998. 

Revisiting after nearly a decade, somethings have changed (mostly the interiors) but others (like the classics) remain the same: garlicky, tasty, and affordable.

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🔘 Bifengtang
📍 1 Dapu Road 打浦路1号
📞 33682997
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#shanghaieats #zaishanghai #shanghaifood #shanghaitrip #shanghairestaurant
I never thought I’d see caviar on a buffet, but he I never thought I’d see caviar on a buffet, but here it is, tins of them, completely unattended! That’s YICAFE’s Friday night seafood buffet for you. Absolute, glorious madness.

Beyond the caviar free-for-all, there’s lobster, king crab, fresh-carved tuna sashimi, crayfish, hairy crab…you get the idea. But also steak, short rib, and food from 10 other live cooking stations. 

It’s normally ¥598, but I’ve arranged a lil something: 20% off, so ¥478.40. (until Jan 30) Woop woop!

Details are on rachelgouk.com

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🔘 YICAFE (Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai)
📍 2/F, 33 Fucheng Lu 富城路33号2楼 
📞 28286888
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#shanghaieats #zaishanghai #shanghaifood #shanghaifoodie #shanghaicity
It’s been a couple years since I’ve eaten at Le Co It’s been a couple years since I’ve eaten at Le Comptoir de Pierre Gagnaire Shanghai (Michelin one star)… But when the legendary chef is in town, you show up. Lunch was a showing of classic French fine dining, executed by Executive Chef Ramses Navarro.

The highlight was undoubtedly the sole meunière, a flawless fillet medallion paired with a sauce of depth, its richness extracted from rockfish. Another was the Uruguayan beef fillet, paired with a glossy tataki sauce. 

#shanghaieats #shanghaifood #pierregagnaire #michelinrestaurant #finedininglovers
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