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Shanghai Food and drink

We've tracked down the best cafés for people-watching, the bars with the coolest cocktails, the most accomplished restaurants and the liveliest local nightlife in Shanghai.

Eating, drinking and dancing

We've tracked down the best cafés for people-watching, the bars with the coolest cocktails, the most accomplished restaurants and the liveliest local nightlife in Shanghai.

Restaurants

(+86 (0)21 5155 8322)

Pier One

A welcome relief from incessant high rises, this Art Deco building boasts a bar, restaurant and club overlooking the river. The Mimosa Supperclub is a stunning multi-level restaurant of cushion-strewn booths. Order a ginga ninja to get started and see if you can book the private glass-walled room, overlooking the other diners.

82 Yi Chang Road, Suzhou Creek, Shanghai, 200060

(+86 (0)21 6279 7188)

Bali Laguna

This restaurant is a Balinese island paradise with scented blooms, exotic statuary and carved teak furniture in a pretty residence beside a lily-carpeted lake in the middle of Jingan Park. This is a popular spot with the local romantics and is a very chilled out option in an urban metropolis.

189 Huashan Road, Shanghai 200040

(+86 (0)21 6321 7733)

Jean Georges

This gastronomic temple at is the three-Michelin-star chef’s only signature restaurant outside New York. Inspired by old Shanghai grandeur, the moody lounge is filled with pony-hair club chairs and eel-skin benches leading through to a luxurious burnished copper and cobalt blue dining room.

3 Zhong Shan Dong Yi Road, Shanghai

(+86 (0)21 6882 8888)

Jade on 36

Adam D Tihany’s eccentric design (giant snuff bottles and a deconstructed rice bowl) and French chef Paul Pairet’s deliciously quirky molecular cuisine conspire to make Pudong Shangri-La’s signature restaurant Jade on 36 one of the city’s most talked-about new dining experiences. The bar, in a fuchsia-inlaid jade box, is a destination in its own right offering creative cocktails, international DJs and jaw-dropping views of the Bund and TV tower.

Tower 2, Pudong Shangri-La, 33 Fu Cheng Lu, Shanghai

Bars and clubs

(+86 (0)21 6339 1199)

Bar Rouge

The view from the Bund at night is awesome, and this bar on the 7th floor at Bund 18 is one of the best places for evening cocktails.

Level 7, 18 Zhong Shan Dong Yi Road, Shanghai

(+86 (0)21 6350 9988)

Glamour Bar

This bar is a great spot to drink cocktails (try the Glamour Bar’s Orange Marmalade martini) and watch the neon come alive. Avoid overly hectic Saturday nights.

5 Guangdong Road, The Bund, Shanghai