Best Tasting Menus in Shanghai

102 House

2 Michelin stars

Chef Xu Jingye's two-Michelin-starred 102 House Shanghai resurrects ancient Cantonese banquet traditions within The Bund's House of Roosevelt, where seasonal tasting menus and signature sweet and sour pork showcase nearly two decades of culinary mastery across just 40 intimate seats.

102 House Shanghai

2 Michelin stars

102 House occupies the fifth floor of the House of Roosevelt on Shanghai's Bund, with windows onto the Huangpu River and the Bund skyline. Chef-owner Xu Jingye cooks seasonal Cantonese banquet cuisine in a small dining room with three private rooms, and the restaurant holds a Star Wine List White Star.

1929 by Guillaume Galliot

Deep wine list

Shanghai’s French contemporary tier is increasingly defined by provenance rather than spectacle, and 1929 by Guillaume Galliot belongs in that conversation. Recognition from the Black Pearl Restaurant Guide 2026 and Opinionated About Dining’s 2026 Asia recommendations gives the restaurant a measurable place in a crowded city where French technique now has to argue its case against strong regional Chinese dining.

8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana (Shanghai)

2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list

Two Michelin stars and a Black Pearl 2 Diamond ranking place 8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana among Shanghai's most credentialed Italian tables. Set in the historic Yuanmingyuan Road corridor of the Bund district, the restaurant holds a position within the city's premium European dining tier that few Italian addresses on the mainland match. Ranked #146 in Opinionated About Dining's Asia list for 2025, it draws a clientele that treats pasta as seriously as it treats wine.

Bao Li Xuan

2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list

Bao Li Xuan holds two Michelin stars and a Black Pearl Diamond at the Bvlgari Hotel's Chinese restaurant on Beijing Road East, Huangpu. Chef Bill Fu leads a Cantonese kitchen where hand-crafted dim sum and precision roasting define the format. La Liste places it among the upper tier of mainland Chinese restaurants in 2025, with a 350-label wine list weighted toward Piedmont, Tuscany, and Champagne.

Bo Shanghai

Bo Shanghai occupies the sixth floor of a Guangdong Road address in Huangpu, positioning itself within Shanghai's competitive tier of modern Chinese dining. The kitchen operates at the intersection of sourcing discipline and contemporary technique, drawing on a broader regional pantry at a moment when ingredient provenance has become a defining marker of credibility in the city's high-end restaurant conversation.

Cai Feng Lou

Cai Feng Lou sits in Songjiang, where Shanghai dining shifts from central-city trophy rooms to destination dining tied to hotels, banquets, and suburban weekend traffic. The appeal is less about a named chef narrative than about how contemporary Chinese dining rooms translate ceremony, privacy, and regional appetite for a city that eats across business, family, and leisure occasions.

Chaimen Hui (Pudong)

A Michelin Plate-recognised Sichuan restaurant in Pudong, Chaimen Hui sits at the mid-to-upper price tier for Shanghai's specialist Chinese dining scene. The address on Yanggao South Road places it deep in residential Pudong, away from the tourist circuits of the Bund, a detail that tends to attract a local crowd rather than passing visitors.

Da Vittorio Shanghai

2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list

Da Vittorio Shanghai carries two Michelin stars and a 95-point La Liste ranking to the Bund Financial Center, where Italian technique meets the expectations of one of China's most demanding dining scenes. Under Chef Romuald Fassenet, the kitchen threads European classical precision through a menu that reads Chinese inflection without losing its Bergamo lineage. For milestone occasions on the Huangpu waterfront, few tables in the city carry comparable weight.

Dashu Wujie

Wujie occupies a converted heritage property on Tianping Road in Xuhui, positioning itself within Shanghai's serious vegetarian fine-dining tier alongside peers like Fu He Hui. The kitchen draws on Buddhist culinary tradition while the broader offering speaks to the city's growing appetite for plant-based cooking at premium price points. Booking ahead is advisable for this Xujiahui address.

Dining Room

High above Pudong inside the Park Hyatt, Dining Room belongs to Shanghai’s vertical school of hotel dining, where altitude and room geometry shape the meal before the first course arrives. Its reputation rests less on chef mythology than on a high-ceilinged room with full-length views and a menu format that reads as part of the city’s polished hotel-restaurant culture.

Dong Ping Chao

Dong Ping Chao on Maoming South Road is one of Shanghai's few dedicated Chao Zhou restaurants operating at the ¥¥¥¥ tier, with consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. The cuisine tradition it represents, rooted in the coastal Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong, is meticulous, seafood-forward, and largely misread outside its home territory.

Fu 1015

1 Michelin star

Housed in a heritage mansion on Yuyuan Road, Fu 1015 is the original address in Tony Lu's Fu restaurant group, holding a Michelin star and ranked 51st in Asia by Opinionated About Dining (2024). The kitchen focuses on home-style Shanghainese cooking, with river fish and meticulously prepared eel dishes anchoring a menu that rewards those who know what to order.

Fu He Hui

2 Michelin stars

Fu He Hui makes Shanghai's plant-led fine dining feel serious rather than corrective: vegetables, fungi, grains and tea carry the meal instead of imitating meat. Its recognition across Michelin, Black Pearl, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining and Asia's 50 Best places it in the city's luxury dining conversation, but its discipline belongs to a narrower vegetarian lineage.

FULL HOUSE

FULL HOUSE sits inside Shanghai’s Black Pearl-recognised dining tier, with a 2026 one-diamond listing placing it among the city’s serious Chinese restaurant addresses. The appeal is less about novelty than about how Shanghai rewards polished, culturally grounded dining rooms that can carry local expectations while speaking to a national awards audience.

GRAND BOAT

A Black Pearl 1 Diamond recipient for 2025, GRAND BOAT occupies a Lujiazui address on Fucheng Road that places it squarely within Pudong's premium dining tier. Book ahead and expect the formality that such recognition demands.

Hokkien Huay Kuan

Hokkien Huay Kuan on Wending Road in Xuhui brings Fujian cooking to one of Shanghai's more considered dining addresses, holding both a Michelin Plate (2025) and Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025). At the ¥¥¥ price tier, it occupies a mid-premium position where regional Chinese cuisines rarely receive sustained critical attention, making this a notable exception in the city's broader Chinese fine-dining conversation.

Hokkien Huay Kuan

Hokkien Huay Kuan occupies the fifth floor of Xintiandi Style I, bringing Fujian-rooted culinary tradition into central Shanghai's polished retail district. The dining room references Fujian's architectural vocabulary, setting the stage for regional ingredients and techniques that still run through contemporary Shanghainese dining even as Cantonese and international formats dominate the city's fine-dining conversation.

Horita

Horita holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025) in Shanghai's Changning District, operating from a low-key address on Panyu Road that sits well outside the city's more trafficked dining corridors. The restaurant has earned recognition in a city where that distinction requires sustained precision, placing it among a selective tier of independently recognized dining rooms across Shanghai.

Il Ristorants

Deep wine list

Il Ristorants occupies the 47th floor of the Bulgari Hotel Shanghai on He'nan Road North in Jing'An, positioning it squarely within the city's tier of hotel-anchored Italian dining. The elevation and address place it alongside Shanghai's most formally ambitious European tables, where the room itself carries as much editorial weight as the kitchen.

Imperial Treasure (Shanghai)

Imperial Treasure brings the group's precise, classically rooted Chinese cooking to Shanghai, with a La Liste 76-point recognition in 2026 placing it among the city's most formally credentialed Chinese dining rooms. The kitchen works within a tradition that prizes technical refinement over novelty, positioning it alongside a small tier of Shanghai addresses where the cooking is measured against pan-Chinese fine dining peers rather than local casual standards.

Jean Georges

Deep wine list

On the fourth floor of Three on the Bund, Jean Georges brings Jean-Georges Vongerichten's signature French cooking to Shanghai's most storied waterfront address. The kitchen pairs classical French technique with local ingredients, operating at the ¥¥¥¥ tier with Michelin Plate, Black Pearl Diamond, and AAA 5 Diamond recognition. Jacket required; reservations are strongly advised.

Ji Pin Court

2 Michelin stars

Ji Pin Court holds two Michelin stars in both 2024 and 2025, placing it among Shanghai's most decorated Cantonese addresses. Set on the second floor of the 1788 Plaza in Jing'an, it operates at the ¥¥¥ price tier, accessible relative to its award tier. La Liste scored it 76 points in 2026 and 79 in 2025, reflecting a kitchen that sustains rather than chases recognition.

Jin Xuan Chinese Restaurant

Positioned on the 53rd floor of the Shanghai International Finance Centre in Lujiazui, Jin Xuan Chinese Restaurant occupies among the more deliberate dining addresses in Pudong. The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai, Pudong property places it in the upper tier of hotel Chinese dining, with a skyscraper-forest panorama that frames the meal as much as the menu does. For business dining and occasion visits, the elevation is both literal and strategic.

Kurogi Shanghai

Kurogi Shanghai brings the kaiseki-adjacent precision of Tokyo's high-end washoku tradition to Hongkou District, where chef Masanobu Yoshimizu operates within a format that prizes seasonal restraint over spectacle. Ranked #250 on the 2025 Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in Asia list, it occupies a specific niche in Shanghai's Japanese dining tier, one that rewards repeat visits over single-occasion dining.

L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon (Shanghai)

Deep wine list

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon on Shanghai's Bund is the city's French fine-dining reference in the Robuchon global network, placing #141 on the 2023 Opinionated About Dining Asia rankings. The counter-style format and French service choreography set it apart from the region's more conventional dining room model. Situated at 18 Zhongshan East Road in Huangpu, it anchors the high-end French tier alongside peers like Le Comptoir and Jean Georges.

La Scene Ronde

La Scene Ronde holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, placing it among Shanghai's recognised innovative dining addresses on Huangpi South Road in Huangpu. The format follows a multi-course progression built around contemporary technique, positioning it in the same serious-dining tier as the city's more decorated tasting-menu counters. Guests seeking a structured meal at the upper end of the Shanghai price range will find it a credible option within that cohort.

Le Comptoir de Pierre Gagnaire

1 Michelin star

Set within a remodelled 1930s villa inside Capella Shanghai on Jianguo Road West, Le Comptoir de Pierre Gagnaire holds a Michelin star and a Black Pearl Diamond, placing it among Xuhui's most serious French tables. The kitchen pairs classical French technique with Shanghainese inflections, while the vine-wrapped terrace and 20-seat bar extend the experience well beyond the dining room.

Les Nuages

Deep wine list

Les Nuages sits on Yan'an Road in Huangpu, where the Bund's architectural weight gives way to a quieter creative register. Holding a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, the innovative kitchen under Chef Sam Hayward operates at the upper end of Shanghai's price spectrum. It rewards visitors who want something outside the city's dominant Cantonese and French fine-dining tracks.

Les Nuages

Deep wine list

Les Nuages belongs to Shanghai’s vertical dining culture: a high-floor room in Hongkou where the Bund skyline becomes part of the meal’s architecture. The draw is less a named chef narrative than the way contemporary Chinese luxury dining now reads provenance, seasonality, and room discipline against the city’s appetite for spectacle.

Lin Jiang Yan

Lin Jiang Yan brings Jiangzhe cuisine to Pudong's Fucheng Road with consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, alongside a Black Pearl 1 Diamond award. The kitchen works within one of China's most technically demanding regional traditions, balancing the restrained sweetness of Jiangnan cooking with the precision that earns institutional recognition. At the ¥¥¥ price point, it sits in a tier where craft and consistency are the baseline expectation.

Ling Long

Deep wine list

On a quiet stretch of Shanxi South Road in the former French Concession, Ling Long occupies the kind of address that rewards those who plan ahead. The restaurant sits in Shanghai's premium dining tier, where advance booking is the standard rather than the exception, and where the surrounding neighbourhood sets a high baseline for culinary ambition.

Ling Long Shanghai

1 Michelin star · Deep wine list

Ling Long Shanghai brings neo-Chinese cooking to Xujiahui's Raffles City, where Chef Jason Liu frames a season-driven menu in acts, each course merging classical Chinese technique with European finesse. A Michelin star (2024), Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025), and La Liste recognition underline its position among Shanghai's contemporary Chinese tier. The format rewards patient, attentive dining rather than quick meals.

Maggie 5

Maggie 5 belongs to Shanghai’s Black Pearl one-diamond tier, a category where sourcing discipline and consistency matter more than spectacle. With cuisine, pricing, and booking details not publicly listed here, the useful read is contextual: treat it as a city restaurant to assess through ingredient quality, Chinese dining expectations, and the credibility implied by 2026 guide recognition.

Maison Lameloise

1 Michelin star · Deep wine list

The first Asian outpost of the storied Burgundy institution, Maison Lameloise occupies the 68th floor of a Pudong tower with 180-degree views of The Bund. Holding a Michelin star and Black Pearl 2 Diamond recognition, the kitchen pairs classical Burgundy technique with Chinese regional produce, Yunnan mushrooms, green Sichuan pepper, against one of Shanghai's most arresting dining backdrops.

Meet the Bund

1 Michelin star

Meet the Bund places Fujian cooking inside Shanghai’s premium dining conversation, with Chen Zhiping leading a kitchen known for province-specific technique rather than generic coastal luxury. Recognition from Black Pearl, Michelin Plate, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining and Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants gives it unusual critical density for a Fujian address in Shanghai.

Meet the Bund (Zhongshan Dong Er Road)

1 Michelin star

Meet the Bund (Zhongshan Dong Er Road) belongs to the polished Bund Finance Center dining circuit, where Shanghai’s riverfront appetite for ceremony meets mall-level convenience. The room’s brass ceiling panels and chandeliers set the tone: formal, urban, and built for guests who want the Bund’s visual grammar without leaving the controlled rhythm of a luxury commercial complex.

Meet the Bund Skyline

Perched on the 56th floor of Raffles West Tower on Shanghai's North Bund, Meet the Bund Skyline brings modern Fujian cuisine to one of the city's most commanding vantage points. Named to the Tatler Best Restaurants Asia-Pacific 2025 list, it occupies a niche where regional Chinese cooking traditions meet panoramic dining at altitude. Fujian cuisine remains one of China's most distinctive regional schools, and this address puts it firmly on Shanghai's fine-dining map.

Mi Shang Prada Rong Zhai

Mi Shang Prada Rong Zhai brings Prada’s first standalone food-and-beverage address into Shanghai’s Jing’an district, inside the cultural orbit of Rong Zhai rather than a conventional restaurant row. Its Gambero Rosso two-fork designation places it in an Italian dining conversation shaped by design, service format and brand-led hospitality as much as by the plate.

MIND YAKINIKU

MIND YAKINIKU brings Black Pearl-recognised Japanese grilling to Xuhui, occupying a residential stretch of Jianguo West Road where Shanghai's dining scene turns quieter and more considered. The 2025 Black Pearl 1 Diamond award places it among a selective tier of yakiniku venues operating in a city where the format has moved well beyond its casual origins.

MIYAHATO

MIYAHATO holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond rating (2025), placing it among Shanghai's documented fine dining tier. The restaurant operates in a city where the competition for serious recognition is fiercer than almost anywhere in Asia, and its Black Pearl standing signals it belongs to the conversation. Check current booking availability before planning your visit.

Nabi

Nabi puts Contemporary Chinese cooking in Shanghai through a high-heat lens: speed, timing, and the controlled aggression of wok work matter more here than decorative luxury language. Chef Tom Ryu is the named kitchen lead, and 2026 recognition from Black Pearl and Opinionated About Dining gives the restaurant enough external validation to place it in the city’s serious dining conversation.

Nan Xing Yuan

Nan Xing Yuan holds a Michelin Plate and Black Pearl 1 Diamond rating for 2025, placing it among Shanghai's recognised addresses for premium Sichuan cooking. Located on Yan'an Road (M) in Jing'An, it operates at the ¥¥¥¥ tier, a price point that signals serious kitchen ambition rather than casual spice-forward dining. For those exploring Shanghai's fine Sichuan scene, it belongs in the same conversation as the city's most decorated regional Chinese tables.

Nan Xing Yuan

Building 12 on Middle Huaihai Road houses a Sichuan kitchen that draws on provincial sourcing and traditional technique. The team behind Nan Xing Yuan centres the menu on ingredients shipped direct from Sichuan, with peppercorns, preserved vegetables, and chilies forming the backbone of a regional repertoire that stays close to home-cooking traditions rather than Shanghai-adapted formats.

Nanlu house

Nanlu House sits in Shanghai's Songjiang District, where it earned a Black Pearl 1 Diamond in 2025, a recognition that places it among the city's tracked fine-dining addresses outside the central boulevards. The space and its kitchen represent a distinct proposition: serious cooking at a remove from the Bund and Xintiandi circuit, in a district where the dining room itself becomes part of the rationale for the trip.

Narisawa

1 Michelin star

The Shanghai outpost of the acclaimed Tokyo original, Narisawa brings its satoyama philosophy to China with a seasonal set menu that favours Chinese ingredients shaped by Japanese technique. The tableside 'Bread of the Forest' remains the defining ritual. At the ¥¥¥¥ tier, this is occasion dining with genuine culinary conviction behind it.

Nuits

Nuits sits in Jing’an, where Shanghai’s dining culture shifts from hotel formality to street-level bistro energy. The available public profile is intentionally restrained, so the draw is less about trophy credentials and more about how a small-format city bistro fits Tongren Road’s after-dark rhythm.

Numata Sou

Numata Sou brings Tokyo tempura discipline to Shanghai's Bund Finance Centre, occupying a ground-floor space in the N1 Building. The restaurant draws from the famed Tokyo tradition, translating high-heat frying precision and seasonal ingredient selection to a city where Japanese technique now commands premium attention.

Obscura

1 Michelin star

A Michelin-starred and Black Pearl one-diamond address on Sichuan Road, Obscura runs a prix-fixe seasonal menu that recasts Chinese culinary memory through Western technique. A travelling duo of chefs keeps the kitchen moving across regional China, surfacing ingredients and references that shift with each season. The non-alcoholic pairing program is worth serious attention.

Phénix

1 Michelin star

Phénix holds a Michelin star and Black Pearl Diamond on the Bund, where chef Ugo Rinaldo runs a French kitchen built around Chinese produce. The six-course Découverte and twelve-course Expérience menus chart the range from accessible introduction to full technical expression. Ranked among Asia's top restaurants by both Opinionated About Dining and La Liste, it occupies a defined tier within Shanghai's competitive fine-dining French scene.

Restaurant LING LONG

Deep wine list

Restaurant LING LONG occupies the ground floor of the Waldorf Astoria on the Bund, bringing chef Jason Liu's acclaimed Beijing concept to Shanghai's most competitive fine-dining corridor. The Shanghai branch has drawn greater critical attention than its Beijing predecessor since opening in 2023. Booking well in advance is strongly advised, particularly for weekend and holiday sittings.

Scarpetta

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Scarpetta brings Scott Conant's New York-born Italian program to the former French Concession-adjacent Huangpu district, holding a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. The wine list runs to 3,500 bottles with particular depth in Piedmont and Tuscany, overseen by two sommeliers. At the ¥¥¥ price tier, it occupies the upper band of Shanghai's Italian dining market.

Shaughnessy

Shaughnessy occupies the 22nd floor of a Huangpu skyscraper near East Huaihai Road, offering high-altitude dining in Shanghai's central business corridor. The setting leans on verticality and views rather than street-level bustle, placing it in a distinct category from ground-floor neighbourhood haunts.

Sir Elly's

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list

Positioned on the 13th floor of The Peninsula Shanghai, Sir Elly's frames Bund views through a 1920s art deco interior while delivering modern French-Asian cooking under Chef Charles-Benoit Lacour. The wine list runs to 420 selections and over 4,000 bottles, weighted toward France, Champagne, and Bordeaux. Michelin Plate recognition since 2024 and consecutive Opinionated About Dining Asia rankings place it firmly in Shanghai's serious fine-dining tier.

Sushi Aoki

Sushi Aoki places Shanghai’s Japanese dining conversation in the disciplined register of sushi ritual rather than spectacle. Its Black Pearl Restaurant Guide 2026 one-diamond recognition gives it a clear trust signal in a city where premium dining spans Cantonese banquets, steakhouse formality, and tightly paced counter formats.

Sushi Ginza Onodera Shanghai

Sushi Ginza Onodera Shanghai brings Tokyo's premium omakase format to the Bund, with Chef Akifumi Sakagami overseeing a counter that has climbed the Opinionated About Dining Asia rankings from Recommended in 2023 to #202 in 2024. A Black Pearl 1 Diamond holder for 2025, it occupies the upper tier of Shanghai's Japanese fine dining circuit, where sourcing discipline and a considered drinks program set the bar.

T’ang Court (Shanghai)

2 Michelin stars

T'ang Court in Shanghai's Huangpu district brings Cantonese tradition to a room that pairs understated main-hall dining with a corridor of private rooms. Ranked 217th among Asia's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, the kitchen under Chef Tony Su bridges classical technique with Shanghainese touches, wok-fried prawns, shrimp-and-crab dumplings, served by staff whose professionalism is the dining room's most consistent credential.

Table Bistro

Table Bistro sits in Shanghai's Minhang District, away from the downtown dining circuit that dominates most visitor itineraries. The restaurant operates in a part of the city where neighbourhood regulars define the room rather than hotel concierge lists. For those willing to travel beyond the Bund, it represents a different register of Shanghai dining.

Taian Table

3 Michelin stars

Taian Table holds three Michelin stars in 2024 and 2025, a Black Pearl Diamond, and a place on La Liste's global ranking with 91.5 points, making it one of Shanghai's most decorated fine-dining addresses. Chef Christiaan Stoop's Modern European tasting menu format occupies a quiet residential lane in Changning, a location that underscores the restaurant's deliberately understated positioning within China's most competitive dining city.

The House of Rong

2 Michelin stars

Occupying a Suzhou-style mansion once belonging to the family of architect I.M. Pei, The House of Rong holds two Michelin stars (2024) and a Black Pearl 2 Diamond (2025) for its seafood-led Taizhou menu. The customisable format lets groups calibrate the meal around wild-caught yellow croaker and other ingredients sourced predominantly from the Taizhou coast. It sits at the premium end of Shanghai's fine regional Chinese dining tier.

The Pine

A Michelin Plate and Black Pearl 1 Diamond recipient for 2025, The Pine sits in Huangpu's Ruijin Er Lu corridor delivering European Contemporary cooking at the summit of Shanghai's price bracket. The dual recognition across both Western and Chinese award systems signals a kitchen operating with serious intent. For European fine dining in a city where the category has never been more competitive, The Pine earns its place at the table.

The Pine

The Pine belongs to the quieter side of Shanghai dining: garden-led, reputation-conscious, and removed from the city’s hotel-dining glare. Its recognition references both the manicured garden and the dining experience, which places it in a category where setting and critical reception matter as much as format or chef biography.

The Yidao (East Beijing Road)

The Yidao on East Beijing Road takes its name seriously: professional tea masters preside over each service, sourcing top-grade loose leaves and natural spring water. The kitchen draws from Huaiyang, Jiangzhe, and Cantonese traditions, anchored by a Guangdong-trained chef whose reworked Buddha Jumps over the Wall, using silver carp from Qiandao Lake, signals the register the restaurant is operating at. Located on the second floor of Yi Feng Galleria in Huangpu.

The yidao restaurant

The Yidao Restaurant holds a 2025 Black Pearl 1 Diamond recognition, placing it within Shanghai's tier of formally acknowledged Chinese dining destinations. Located on the second floor of the Bund Source complex on West Beijing Road in Huangpu, the address puts it alongside some of the city's most deliberate restaurant real estate. Booking lead times and format details warrant planning ahead.

Three on the Bund

Three on the Bund occupies a storied address on Shanghai's most scrutinised waterfront strip, where the tension between heritage architecture and contemporary dining ambition has played out for decades. Positioned in the Huangpu district at the base of the Bund's celebrated building row, it represents a particular chapter in how Shanghai reconciled international fine dining with its colonial-era built fabric.

Three on the Bund - Jean Georges Shanghai

Deep wine list

At the historic Three on the Bund complex, Jean Georges Shanghai brings a French-Cantonese framework to one of the Bund's most architecturally significant addresses. La Liste has scored it 76–77 points across consecutive years, placing it firmly within the upper tier of Shanghai's Western-influenced fine dining. The result is a room where the Huangpu River view competes with what arrives on the plate.

Vivant by Johnny Pham

Deep wine list

Vivant by Johnny Pham occupies a considered position in Shanghai's Huangpu dining scene, where chef-driven restaurants have increasingly defined the city's premium tier. With Johnny Pham at the helm, Vivant represents a strand of Shanghai dining that places culinary authorship at the centre of the experience, situated on Zizhong Road in a neighbourhood that rewards those who seek it out.

WuXieJu

WuXieJu on Maoming South Road holds a 2025 Black Pearl 1 Diamond, placing it among Shanghai's recognised names in Chinese dining. The Huangpu address puts it at the edge of the French Concession's restaurant corridor, where formal Chinese traditions and contemporary dining expectations meet. A considered choice for those tracing the city's established Chinese dining circuit.

Yi Long Court

1 Michelin star

Housed on the second floor of The Peninsula Shanghai along the Bund, Yi Long Court delivers high-end Cantonese cooking in a space designed after a 1930s Shanghainese merchant's residence. Executive chef Tang Chi Keung anchors the menu in classical Cantonese technique, with a particular emphasis on seasonal seafood. A Michelin star (2024) and an OAD Top 300 Asia ranking confirm its standing among Shanghai's most serious Chinese dining rooms.

Yong Fu (Huangpu)

1 Michelin star

Yong Fu (Huangpu) gives Ningbo cooking a high-recognition Shanghai stage, with wild-caught seafood shipped daily from Ningbo and a kitchen led by Weng Yongjun. The draw is not novelty; it is the city’s long appetite for coastal Zhejiang flavors, handled with enough polish to earn La Liste 97 points for 2026 and Black Pearl 3 Diamond recognition in 2025.

Yong Fu（Ning Bo)

Yong Fu（Ning Bo) belongs to Shanghai’s high-recognition Chinese dining tier, with a Black Pearl Restaurant Guide 2026 three-diamond distinction anchoring its status. The draw is less about novelty than ritual: a Ningbo-referenced meal in a city where regional Chinese cooking is judged by restraint, pacing, and the confidence to let tradition carry the room.

Yong Yi Ting

1 Michelin star · Deep wine list

Ranked #228 in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Asia (2024) and holding a Michelin star, Yong Yi Ting sits 21 feet underground in Lujiazui's Mandarin Oriental Pudong, where floor-to-ceiling glass opens onto a sunken patio and the kitchen delivers refined Jiangnan cooking rooted in Shanghainese and Jiangzhe tradition. It is one of Shanghai's clearest cases for what contemporary reinterpretation of a regional cuisine can achieve at fine-dining scale.

YongFoo Elite

A 1930s former British Consulate in Xuhui District, YongFoo Elite occupies one of Shanghai's most architecturally charged addresses and pairs it with a menu of traditional Shanghainese cooking, ancient recipes rarely found on contemporary restaurant lists. Ranked #399 in Opinionated About Dining's Asia Top Restaurants in 2024 and listed on La Liste 2025, it draws a crowd that comes for the hairy crab roe, braised pork belly, and a wine list that takes the room seriously.

ZIFUHUI

Deep wine list

ZIFUHUI holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025) and operates from Changning District's Hongqiao corridor, positioning it within Shanghai's mid-to-upper tier of recognised Chinese dining. The address at 1665 Hongqiao Road places it in a part of the city where serious, locally focused restaurants have found a consistent clientele away from the Bund's tourist gravity.

唐阁 Tang court

Tang Court brings Cantonese cooking to the heart of Huangpu with the kind of formality that lets the food do the talking. Scored 85 points on La Liste in 2025 and 82 in 2026, it occupies a tier above casual dim sum and below the absolute ceiling of the city's Chinese fine-dining hierarchy. For shared-table Cantonese eating in Shanghai, it remains a measured, serious option.

西郊5号 Xijiao No.5 - Maggie 5

Xijiao No.5 (Maggie 5) brings fine-dining ambition to Changning's quieter western residential belt, holding dual recognition from La Liste and the Black Pearl guide. As one of Shanghai's credentialed Shanghai cuisine addresses, it operates at a tier where presentation and precision are assumed, placing it alongside the city's more studied Chinese dining rooms rather than its tourist-facing banquet halls.