Magnolia
By Maya Poulton, Jun 20th, 2007 | In Dining
This 2 week old editorial refers to Magnolia restaurant which has already closed. More information coming soon.
Magnolia is located at the top of the Mansion Hotel on Xinle Lu. We've all seen the place being renovated for ages, and finally a few months back it opened. It has both indoor and outdoor seating, which is important since the patio is the best in the French Concession area. You can see the Kwah building, the Jing-An Hilton, and the Okura Garden Hotel. The hotel itself has around 30 rooms, decorated in gaudy "upper class" fabrics and lots of small details and crown molding-type aesthetics. Apparently they're quite expensive. I couldn't help but think how I'd rather be at clean and modern JIA in HK for less. There's also a case of random objects that have nothing in common, which I encountered on the top floors. Overall though, the building is quite magnificent- especially when you enter the large, guilded iron gates. There's a double entry with a glass sunroom before the front doors, and the dark wood throughout the hotel is warm, and has the feeling of being a distinguished number of years old.
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