It's been a while since I've been to a pho restaurant. It doesn't mean I haven't been searching for new places, I just haven't found...

I like The Grape because everyone else hates it. Two things keep me coming back: spite and the gongbao jiding. The Grape was one of the...

You think you've taken all you can get out of the Pearl Tower -- some pictures, a crystal tower souvenir, the T-shirt. But you haven't. The...

Bonito emerged on the dining scene last summer, and although they scored points with the expat and Spanish communities for their great patio,...

Everyone has their favorite Sichuan restaurant, and they tend to defend their choice with irrational passion. Most of us tend to focus on...

Perhaps the principal complaint I hear from people who work in the Huaihai Dong Lu area, south of People's Square, is the lack in variety of...

Usually SmartShanghai doesn't write about venues lacking in positive attributes -- we prefer to offer personal recommendations rather than...

You probably already know about Charmant. Located in the French Concession, it's a hub, a cornerstone, an institution, a second office, a...

Before the last recession, I was living in San Francisco enjoying the excesses of the dot.com bubble. Aside from producing The Internet as we...

In the summer of 2007, a little-known but secret favorite Yunnan restaurant called Southern Barbarian moved from the north of town to a...

Comfortable black velvet lounge couches, tastefully dim lighting, hip urban graffiti photography on the walls, a sleek bar surface imported from...

Ambrosia has been a fixture on the French Concession dining scene ever since Conde Nast Traveler named it "one of the best new restaurants in...

Marrakech opened on Fuxing Xi Lu over a year ago. It quickly became a favorite of ours. We loved their lunch specials, sitting in the backyard...

I often find myself, like everyone else, at Logo Bar, a few nights a week. While most of the drunks there prefer to grab a few skewers of yang...

At the height of the franchise's dominance, there were four Windows outlets -- beautiful and terrible they were -- striding the Shanghai...

I avoided Pin Chuan at first because a Shanghainese friend derided it as a "place that only foreigners go," alluding that it's not authentic...