RAC is popular an all-day cafe, restaurant, and bar. It's famous for their brunchy menu of crepes, galettes, and breakfast sandwiches.

From uber popular brunch-vibes cafe RAC comes Allee, a much larger space in Jing'an. Breakfast sandwiches, brunch plates, crepes, and French-Asian bistro food.

Ortensia Shanghai is a fine dining restaurant with roots in Paris, where it holds a one Michelin star. Contemporary French with Asian inflections.

Han Kim Nam is a casual Korean restaurant located within 1000 Trees mall. Expect comforting dishes of Army Pot Stews and Korean fried chicken.

Tokyo Ichimi is a standing soba noodle shop in Shanghai serving soulful bowls of noodles with tempura toppings. Excellent soba in a robust broth at ¥29 a bowl.

Crave is a café and wine bar on Xinle Lu. It's a cafe by day with pastries, sandwiches, and coffee and bistro by night with a French-inclined menu.

Cantina Agave is a long-standing Mexican restaurant & bar dishing out tacos, burritos, fajitas & churros. Legendary margaritas happy hour and free-flow brunch.

YICAFE is the all-day dining buffet restaurant at the Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai. More than a dozen cuisines plus 10 live cooking stations.

Jade on 36 is a modern French restaurant at the Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai. Stunning views, classic French flair, and free-flow champagne brunch.

Sushi Ren is a Japanese restaurant that does shabu shabu, sukiyaki, and sushi. Good Tokyo-style sukiyaki and fantastic sushi but at a premium.

Motoya is a Japanese restaurant that specializes in Kanto-style sukiyaki. Superb meat quality and value for money.

ZUP Pizza Bar does Chicago tavern-style thin-crust pizzas, upside-down Sicilian thick-crust pizzas, smash burgers, and sandwiches.