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.
TABLES FOR TWO & THE SHANGHAI DIRECTORY
Tables for Two
Price is irrelevant; taste is absolute. From three-Michelin-star Taian Table to ¥20 beef noodles and sesame flatbreads.
Tables for Two · Wutong Quarter · ¥125
Root Down 黑胶聆听吧 (Root Down Vinyl Listening Bar)Tables for Two · Wutong Quarter · ¥140
Speak Low 彼楼 (Speak Low)Push open the sliding bookshelf on Fuxing Road to enter Shanghai’s original multi-story speakeasy.
Tables for Two · Wutong Quarter · ¥150
Sober Company (Sober Company)Three floors by Fuxing Park—Café, Kitchen, and Society—culminating in the hidden Tipsy room.
Tables for Two · Jing’an · ¥145
COA Shanghai (COA Shanghai)Agave and mezcal sanctuary in a three-story Jiaozhou Road townhouse.
Tables for Two · Wutong Quarter · ¥120
Union Trading Company (UTC) (Union Trading Company)Yao Lu’s exuberantly welcoming Fenyang Road bar; great drinks and legendary tots.
Tables for Two · Lujiazui · ¥260
Flair 顶层餐厅酒吧 (Flair Rooftop Restaurant & Bar)Fifty-eight floors above Lujiazui: face-to-face with the Oriental Pearl sphere and the entire Bund sweep.
