Best Restaurants in Shanghai

Best Restaurants in Shanghai

Guide: Jiangnan Precision & Destination Tables

Shanghai's destination dining is not one cuisine. These rooms move from Jiangnan and Shanghainese memory to Fujian seafood, Cantonese banquets, vegetarian technique, and international fine dining, with enough contrast to justify every reservation.

• Taian TableStefan Stiller's counter builds ten- or twelve-course menus from a broad choice of plates, letting diners shape a German-Asian progression without losing the kitchen's exacting rhythm.
• Meet the BundMeet the Bund gives Fujian seafood a metropolitan stage, balancing pristine fish, red-sturgeon glutinous rice, and a shark-fin-free Buddha Jumps Over the Wall with polished service.
• Ling LongJason Liu's tasting menu moves through regional Chinese memories with modern structure, including preserved-vegetable chicken, fish maw with Parmesan, and restrained honey-led desserts.
• Fu He HuiFu He Hui treats vegetarian cooking as a study of Chinese agriculture, fermentation, tea, and seasonality, using historical techniques instead of imitating meat or leaning on luxury garnish.
• 102 HouseThis small Bund dining room revives formal Cantonese banquet cooking through seasonal set menus, double-boiled soups, roast meats, and sweet-and-sour pork sharpened with house fruit vinegar.
• La Bourriche 133Lee Jiawei applies French technique to oysters, crab, turbot, and other peak-season seafood in a restrained Rockbund room whose submarine mood never overwhelms the catch.
• Bao Li XuanBao Li Xuan places disciplined Cantonese cooking inside the restored Chamber of Commerce building, pairing dim sum, seafood, and roast meats with a quieter heritage setting.
• Da VittorioDa Vittorio translates the Cerea family's Italian luxury into a Bund dining room, with seafood, handmade pasta, and exact service carrying more weight than novelty.
• Fu 1088Set in a 1920s villa, Fu 1088 frames red-braised pork, smoked fish, river produce, and other Shanghainese signatures through private-room pacing and old-house atmosphere.
• Canton 8Canton 8 makes serious Cantonese cooking unusually accessible, with double-boiled soups, char siu, seafood, dim sum, and desserts served without luxury-hotel pricing.

Reviewed by RGuide Editorial · Venue details checked July 2026