Dining&Restaurant

After a couple of years at the rooftop second floor of The Cut, this spot is now The Cut Rooftop, an upscale casual dining lounge thing aimed at young professionals. Seems like a really good spot for an after-work drink if a) you work nearby and...

Up-scale fusion restaurant along Binjiang Avenue in Pudong, with an elegant interior, imaginative cuisines, and attentive staff. Dining area is pretty spacious, with five parts over two floors, featuring plenty of artworks. Lush lounge, open kitchen, outdoor dessert bar, oversized tables… Everything is designed delicately for...

A casual Argentinian steakhouse with a focus grilled steaks and Peruvian ceviches, tiraditos, and antichuchos. They have the some of the best value steaks in town here with quality cuts including 200g rib-eyes, striploins, and rump steaks going from 95rmb and 300g steaks from 145rmb. Also...

Serial restaurateur Kelley Lee’s popular American-style pub has a flagship in Xintiandi. On tap is a selection of Pilsners, lagers, stouts, and a rotating cast of others. The menu features Southern American comfort food with Southwest accents. As you’d expect for the area, it’s all just...

Goose Island’s 2-storey brewery, boasting 29 taps serving the Goose Island beers you’ve probably seen everywhere around town, it seems, as well as house-crafted brews. They’ve also got an “urban craft kitchen” rustling up grub like aged cuts of steak, house-cured pastrami, homemade sauce and various beer-infused dishes....

Formerly just “Italo”, but after a renovation upgrade and an impressive menu re-design, Italo Trattoria is now a nice date-night spot in Xuhui. Dim lighting, jovial retro wall hangings, and an attentive staff make this a real casual but elevated Italian option in the Fumin Lu,...

Popular gastro-pub / lounge by serial restauranteur Kelly Lee, the woman behind Sproutworks, iiiiit, Boxing Cat, and Cantina Agave. This one has a fully-functional brewery and they usually have a dozen of their brews on tap, which change constantly and can get quite creative (the Miami...