Crystal Jade

The entire city seems to congregate in this glass-and-granite dining room for the Shanghai- and Cantonese-style dim sum accompanied by... More

Jade on 36

An Adam Tihany–designed restaurant with lamps shaped like giant Chinese snuff bottles and a playful but highly accomplished menu from... More

Jean Georges Shanghai

Since opening in 2004, this has been the city’s hottest restaurant, thanks in large part to chef de cuisine Eric... More

Nanxiang Steamed Buns Restaurant

A trip to the ancient Yu Yuan Garden must be followed by a visit to Nanxiang for Shanghai’s best <em>xiao... More

South Beauty 881

Artful Sichuan and Cantonese dishes are served inside an old mansion, renovated by the Japanese firm Super Potato.... More

Xinjiang Fengwei Restaurant

When he’s in town, celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten joins Shanghai’s food obsessives at the plastic-covered tables here for authentic dishes... More

12 Chairs

Star Chef David Laris of Shanghai's 12 Chairs shares, 'I run 12 Chairs like a mini fine-dining restaurant. Each night... More

Alchemist Cocktail Kitchen

The molecular Shanghai gastropub from chef Kelley ... More

Allure

But at Le Royal Méridien Shanghai’s Allure, chef Michael Wendling prefers to stick to French classics.... More

Chicha

A Peruvian chef creates multicourse menus featurin... More

Coconut Paradise

Spicy noodles and galangal-scented Thai curries are presented in a leafy garden at Coconut Paradise... More

The Cupola at Three on the Bund

This two-tiered dome atop a landmark 1916 building seats just two and commands 360-degree views of the Bund's Neoclassical architecture... More

Din Tai Fung

Dongbeiren

Dongbeiren celebrates the Chinese Northeast, with shucks of dried corn at the entrance. The food is equally dramatic: stewed lamb... More

El Cubano

Traditional pressed sandwiches complement sweet mojitos at El Cubano owned by one of the handful of Havana expats in the... More

Face Bar

Later, we headed off to the perennially fashionable Face Bar, where we met a Chinese doctor friend of Han Feng's... More

Franck

Fu 1088

Fulton Place

In a quirky Shanghai loft space with toile wallpap... More

Guyi Hunan

...fiery Hunan cuisine draws an A-list crowd to Guyi.... More