Les Halles, a French-style butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.

Les Halles: An Artisanal French Butchery & Restaurant in Shanghai

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Les Halles is a French-style artisanal butchery, deli, restaurant, and convenient store located on Jiashan Lu in Xuhui. It’s run by the same people behind French restaurant Chez Jojo.

Butchery & Deli

Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.
Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.
Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.

The store looks and feels like it was plucked right out of France. There’s a butchery section, a display of your typical beef, pork, lamb, and chicken cuts, but also a range of house-cased sausages, charcuterie, house-made terrines and pâtés, olive mixes, French cheeses, and even oysters.

Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.
Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.

Les Halles also has dry-aged steaks and house-cured sausage links. These are all available to-go or via the mini-program, or to be ordered and consumed in store.

Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.

There are about a dozen house-cased sausages from spicy chorizo to ones with quintessential French seasoning of herbes de Provence. But these three sausages are a must-try: Boudin Blanc (¥130/500g), Boudin Noir (¥120/500g), and Andouillette (¥120/500g), all very very French and all rather heavy and rich.

Sausages & Terrines

Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.

Boudin Blanc is a white sausage typically made with a mix of pork and chicken. There are variations with some even including veal. Les Halles’ version has pork, eggs, whipping cream, and little cubes of foie gras. If you’re buying them for home, try to cook them on slightly lower heat so you don’t liquify the foie nuggets inside. It is decadent.

Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.

Then, there’s the Boudin Noir, a pork blood sausage. Similar to many blood sausages, it has a slight grainy texture, although, this one was more creamy than grainy.

Finally, the Andouilette, a sausage not for the faint of heart, as it is an infamously stinky sausage made with pork and pig stomach and intestines. As you can imagine, it does have a certain pungency, but permeated with spices, garlic, and onion. Best enjoyed with mustard / mustard sauce.

Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.
Duck & Foie Gras Terrine (¥58/100g) – Very delicious. Nice ratio, perfect seasoning, and just the right amount of fat.
Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.
Beef Short Ribs (¥88/125g) – Short ribs served with bell peppers. When dining in, it’s served with a hot stone so you can cook your own at the table.

Other dishes on the menu include other French classics like raclette (¥78) for 120g of cheese and cold cuts, fondue (¥98/per person), and duck confit. Lunch sets available from ¥58.

Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.

Les Halles is more of a to-go store than a restaurant, though, it does have plenty of seating on the second floor.

Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.
Les Halles is a French butchery, deli, and restaurant in Shanghai. Photo by Rachel Gouk @ Nomfluence.

The “shop” stocks a modest selection of dried goods, as well as ready-to-eat items from potted spreads of hummus and ratatouille to vacuum-sealed bags of reheat-to-eat beef bourguignon and pork knuckle. Wines by the bottle are affordably priced, too.


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