40 tables and bars, 21 hotels, and 3 active seasonal pop-ups and exhibitions across Shanghai.
Flaky,炉-baked scallion and sesame flatbreads pulled blistering hot from the barrel oven—best eaten standing on the sidewalk with a bowl of savory soy milk.
A Michelin-starred Shanghainese dining room dressed in 1930s nostalgia where caramelized red-braised pork and tableside crab-roe rice deliver maximum comfort at a remarkably fair price.
A warm, wood-paneled vinyl listening bar on leafy Nanchang Road where custom high-fidelity speakers play soul, jazz, and funk at a volume that flatters both the record and your conversation.
Thirty-year Shanghainese legend steps from Wukang Mansion; book days ahead.
Tiny Jinxian Road lane kitchen serving homestyle Shanghainese braised duck and river shrimp.
Rich, dark-soy Shanghainese comfort classics right next door on Jinxian Road.
Five-table Jinxian Road institution beloved for braised bamboo shoots and soup.
Bib Gourmand favorite where scallion pork chops and crab-egg scramble cost under ¥90.
Old-school Maoming Road dining hall famous for yellow croaker soup with pork wontons.
Michelin-starred Jiangzhe cuisine in a secluded Xinhua Road garden villa.
Expat and local institution on Maoming Road; the cumin-crusted pork ribs are legendary.
Stylish Wukang Road Sichuan dining room famous for its Basil Drop cocktail and tea-smoked duck.
Paul Pairet’s sunlit French café in Xintiandi; the caramelized French toast is a citywide obsession.
Lyonnaise bistro classics by Nicolas Le Bec inside a storied 1920s Xinhua Road garden villa.
Julu Road natural-wine bistro capturing the effortless energy of young Shanghai.
Push open the sliding bookshelf on Fuxing Road to enter Shanghai’s original multi-story speakeasy.
Three floors by Fuxing Park—Café, Kitchen, and Society—culminating in the hidden Tipsy room.
Yao Lu’s exuberantly welcoming Fenyang Road bar; great drinks and legendary tots.
Ten square meters on Taiyuan Road that redefined specialty coffee drinks in China.
Folding windows open straight onto Nanchang Road; order the pistachio dirty.
Garden courtyard coffee famous for its watermelon-popsicle cold brew.
Overflowing tables of olive-oil focaccia, maritozzi, and ciabatta at the Wukang-Anfu crossroads.
Shanghai’s only all-villa Shikumen resort: fifty-five restored 1930s lane townhouses in the heart of Xuhui.
Set in the historic Fuxing Middle Road music precinct next to the 1924 Blackstone Apartments and Symphony Hall.
Sleep inside a restored 1930s Spanish-style garden villa on Wukang Road underneath century-old plane trees.
A 1933 Art Deco apartment house on Hengshan Road with its original wrought-iron cage elevator intact.
Century-old Shikumen brickwork meets botanical Eastern perfumery and Shanghai’s sharpest fashion houses. Eligible for ¥200+ instant tax refund.