Shanghai is the best city for eating in China. You may dine in a colonial Mansion or on the Rooftop nearby the Bund. Just enjoy a variety of Chinese cuisines. Here are the Top 20 Best Restaurants in Shanghai.

01. Blue Sky Rotational
Blue Sky Rotational is the biggest restaurant in Shanghai. It's famous of its kind in the Far East. The restaurant changes its menu on a monthly basis to alternate special dishes from Southeast Asia, Japan, the Americas and Europe for every coming guest. Blue Sky Rotational is located on 161 Changle Road.

02. Juelin Vegetarian Restaurant
Juelin Vegetarian Restaurant boasted with the organic foods and variety of yummy dishes for Vegetarian. It serves such special dishes as minced fish braised with wolf-berries, imitation duck meat and ham. The restaurant is a famous vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai. Juelin Vegetarian Restaurant is located on 250 East Jinling Road.

03. Lupolang Restaurant
It's Shanghai's most famous pastry shop selling dozens of light refreshments in both Shanghai and Lake Taihu pleasure boat styles of Lupolang Restaurant. These including steamed buns stuff with vegetable and mushroom, stuffed buns with some kinds of sliced meat and vegetable, pyramid-shaped dumpling of glutinous ham wrapped in reed leaves and rice, and jujube paste with flaky cakes stuffed. The restaurant is located on 131 Yuyuan Road.

04. Meilongzhen Restaurant
Meilongzhen Restaurant is a renowned restaurant. It's well-known by its Sichuan dishes prepared in the Shanghai style. Specialties include braised prawns, ginkgo nuts cooked with shrimp meat, egg plants in fermented bean sauce, and double-cooked pork sandwiches. Meilongzhen Restaurant is located on 22 Lane No. 1081, Nanjing Road in Shanghai.

05. Shanghai Old Restaurant
Shanghai Old Restaurant is a Shanghai culinary style restaurant and has a hundred-year-old establishment in the local. This restaurant is strength of Freshwater fish, whose menu features such delicacies as braised meat, red-cooked bullhead fish and eight-treasure duck, preserved in fermented rice en casserole. Shanghai Old Restaurant is located on 242 Fuyou Road.

06. Wangbaohe Restaurant
Wangbaohe Restaurant is established in 1744 in Shanghai, it's one of the oldest restaurants. Wangbaohe gradually rose to fame for its mellow rice wine from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, such as Huadiao, Taidiao, Old Jianfan and Jinpo and service of old. The culinary style of Wangbaohe draws heavily from various schools of Chinse cuisin. The Freshwater crab is a very popular dish in this restaurant. Wangbaohe Restaurant is located on 603 Fuzhou Road.

07. Yangzhou Restaurant
Yangzhou Restaurant is pretty famous in Shanghai for its Yangzhou style dishes from the well-known Mu's Family Kitchen. Main dishes include pork in jelly, stewed crab ovum with pork patties; Mu's braised meat slices, minced fish with pine nut kernels. Its famous pastry including lightly fried dumplings stuffed with scallion-flavored pork, and eight-treasure shaomai. The restaurant is located on 72 West Nanjing Road.

08. Bao Luo
Marked only by a small "BL" on a colorful red neon sign, this brightly lit, bi-level French Concession dim sum joint is so popular. Most of locals will wait hours for a table. Stop by for lunch, dinner and enjoy the fresh crab and meatballs, sweet-and-sour fish topped with crunchy pine nuts, and crisp-tender steamed broccoli. Bao Luo is located on 271 Fumin Road.


09. Crystal Jade
Crystal Jade is a pretty busy restaurant packs a crowd on weekend mornings, with families flocking to have a chat and chew over dim sum. The table piles up with Bamboo baskets, filled with Cantonese dishes, such as shrimp dumplings, soup-filled xiaolongbao, or pork-filled xiumai, all fresh from the steamer. Shanghai locals flip to the back of the menu, which offers juicy fried pork dumplings and soupy noodles with shredded pork and pickled radish. Enjoy the excellent chilled mango pudding after the meal. The address is House 6-7, Lane 123 South Block Xintiandi Xingye Road

10. Jia Jia Tang Bao
Jia Jia Tang Bao is tiny shop and full of locals to indulge in Shanghai's signature dish, xiaolongbao round pork dumplings, each bamboo basket of dumplings is wrapped and steamed to order. The exquisite dumplings are worth the wait, despite disposable chopsticks and scuffed tables. This restaurant is located on a well-traveled street off People's Square of 90 Huanghe Road.

11. Sens&Bund
Sens&Bund is the restaurant draws a polite business crowd with its reasonable prix fixe lunch, though the twinkling night views are well worth a dinnertime splurge. Sens&Bund's menu includes duck breast, lobster terrine, or squash cannoli stuffed with creamy shrimp purée. Desserts are equally rich, ranging from pear Tarte Tatin with a savory-sweet rosemary caramel sauce, to ravioli stuffed with ruby-red fruits. It's located in the Bund 18, 6th floor on 18 Zhongshan Dongyi Road.

12. YongFoo Élite
YongFoo Élite is a magical garden with paper lanterns glow from twisting pine trees surrounds this grand French Concession villa. The interior befits the 1930s Tudor-style structure, intimate with scattered Chinese antiques, shaded chandeliers, and mahogany furniture. In warm weather, retire to the enormous garden, which has secret spaces that are perfect for an after-dinner drink. YongFoo Élite is located on 200 Yongfu Road.

13. Yè Shanghai
In Yè Shanghai of downstairs, the long, slender dining room blends shuttered windows and traditional red lanterns hanging over round tables, the spare walls are hung with black-and-white photographs of old Shanghai. This fancy restaurant serves Shanghainese fare with style to a mix of expats and wealthy locals. The menu features classics such as drunken chicken, and water chestnuts stuffed into sesame pockets. The restaurant is on 338 Huang Pi Nan Road.

14. T8 Restaurant & Bar
T8 restaurant and nightclub sports a decidedly modern edge, thanks to smoked glass, romantic lighting, and an open kitchen that churns out bold Pan-Asian and Mediterranean plates. This dazzling nightspot is known to attract its fair share of stars. Soak up the scene, sip a New Zealand Pinot Noir, snack on caramelized salted salmon or slow-cooked Szechuan lamb, and see if you can scope out some celebrities. The restaurant is on No. 8 Xintiandi North Part Lane 181 Tai Cang Road.

15. 1221
The 1221 restaurant offering Shanghai cuisine, it's neither too sweet nor too greasy. This tastefully decorated restaurant has amount of following in the business community. Most of dishes on the menu are delight and some are standouts include lionehead meatballs, drunken chicken and braised pork with preserved vegetables. 1221 is located at the end of an alley in the center of Hongqiao district. The restaurant address No.1221 Yan'an West Road.

16. Lan Na Thai
Buddha statues watch over the dining room of Lan Na Thai while patrons peruse the extensive wine list for a bottle that can stand up to the authentic and fiery fare. Bright red windowpanes offset light blue walls in this beautiful and buzzing Thai restaurant. A fresh papaya salad with dried shrimp and peanuts, Spicy chilies add a kick to the som tam, and the delicious and creamy green curry made with basil and lime also packs some heat. The restaurant is located in Ruijin Hotel, Building 4 on 118 Ruijin Er Road.

17. Fook Lam Moon
Fook Lam Moon is a renowned Hong Kong Cantonese restaurant in the Pudong Shangri-La serves up some of the best Cantonese cuisine in Shanghai. Traditional Cantonese standards such as the shark's fin soup and roasted suckling pig are superb, as are the deep fried crispy chicken, and the fried rice inside lotus leaf. Chefs and ingredients are all from Hong Kong. The Shanghainese influence appears in the cold appetizers including the chilled river shrimps, and the sour and hot cucumber skin. It's located on No.33 Fucheng Road

18. La Villa Rouge
La Villa Rouge is located on the western edge of Xujiahui Park. The restaurant was once the original Recording Studios with red brick mansion. La Villa Rouge is a fashionable restaurant evokes a wonderfully dreamy bygone era with its dark brown wood paneling, classical wallpaper, large glass windows, grand staircases, and antique recording instruments. During the dining time, the restaurant plays the 1930s Chinese pop classics music as the background for fashionably dressed. All the dishes prepared by a team of Japanese chefs who can be creative or experimental depending on how you like the outcome of their efforts. The address is No. 811 Hengshan Road.

19. Shanghai Uncle
Shanghai Uncle is really with highly accomplished restaurant serving up the best Shanghai cuisine in town. Its tender and succulent pork dishes, and the cold and lightly salted ox tongue appetizer, can turn even the vegetarians into carnivores. Shanghai Uncle located on the eighth and ninth floors of one of Pudong's more popular shopping mall, sees its traffic influenced more by the mall crowd, but the food here is of a similarly high quality as its Puxi counterparts. The address is No. 500 Zhangyang Road.

20.Danieli's
Danieli's is a tasteful and elegant restaurant. The restaurant lay out with an open kitchen and a handful of window tables. When you make your reservation you should request. Italian fine dining at its best, which in this case includes a good wine list and the city at your feet, this restaurant atop the St. Regis Hotel, is well worth a special trip out to Pudong. The menu changes every few months to features all manner of excellent pesci and carn. Save room for their tasty desserts. The address is No. 889 Dongfang Road.

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