Crave: Comforting Bistro Fare At This Intimate Wine Bar
Café and wine bar Crave adds a comforting bistro fare for dinner, featuring small plates of duck puff pastries and fantastic bavette steak.
Cocktail Bar Black Rock Shanghai, A Citadel of Whisky
Black Rock Shanghai is no ordinary whiskey-specialized cocktail bar, but rather a citadel of whisky for novices and connoisseurs alike.
The Showroom Shanghai: An Italian Designer Speakeasy Bar
The Showroom is an Italian speakeasy bar located above a designer furniture store on Jiaozhou Lu, Shanghai. It’s uber chic, and not your typical speakeasy.
Xibo: A Xinjiang Food Feast, Exploring Ethnic Cuisine
Xibo is a smart casual Xinjiang restaurant in Shanghai. It is a long-standing favorite that serves a fantastically colorful range of ethnic Xinjiang dishes.
Fafu For Excellent Korean BBQ in Jing’an (Open Till Late)
Fafu is a Korean barbecue restaurant in Jing’an, Shanghai — KBBQ that’s almost as good as the ones in K-town. Opens till late.
Borsh & Kompot: A Mom-n-Pop Slavic Cafe in Shanghai
Borsh & Kompot is a cozy Slavic restaurant and bar in Shanghai. Home-style Russian and Ukranian food, kompot drinks, and house-infused vodkas.
2 New Openings: Cages Huangpu, O’Mills Light
lavic restaurant and bar Borsh & Kompot, Cages opens a second location at One East mall near West Bund, and O’Mills has another outpost in Xingfu Lu.
Loushang: Late Night Cantonese-Style Hotpot in Shanghai
Loushang Hotpot (楼上火锅) is an upmarket Cantonese-style hotpot restaurant in Shanghai that specializes in fresh seafood. Oh, and it’s open until 4am.
New & Hot: Juke, A Neighborhood Eatery on Dongping Lu
Juke is an intimate 18-seater neighborhood eatery on Dongping Lu serving a chef-driven menu of Mediterranean food with Asian accents alongside wines.
Favorite New Restaurants in Shanghai From 2021
A round-up of my favorite new restaurant openings in Shanghai from the past year, plus a shortlist of notable mentions. A good recap of 2021.