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[Update: September 2015. Well, that didn't quite work out. The American managers are gone, though the place might still be open as a bar run by the restaurant] A recent, welcome trend is opening a Bund bar that crushes the notions of "The... Read more...
Remember Boona café (R.I.P)? This new lanehouse café Boho on Xiangyang Bei Lu is reviving those laid-back, coffee-shop-office vibes, but they've swapped cheap sandwiches for bikes and bike... Read more...
Somehow this little New Zealand café / bar Fix , in an unremarkable area on Jianguo Lu / Jiashan Lu is the second most reviewed restaurant on SmartShanghai in the last three months, after... Read more...
Like Ned Doheny , Tachinomiya -- standing bars -- are big in Japan but seldom known elsewhere. Gubei must have several, with expensive sit-down fees and customers who speak neither English... Read more...
This new Spanish restaurant / cocktail house opened on Wulumuqi Lu near Fuxing Lu about twenty days ago. Their event listing promised "the most creative cocktails in Shanghai" so we stopped in to verify this claim. Not sure about the "most... Read more...
New backyard for the summer right here. Alcohol importer / distributor Dxcel have opened their Yongfu Lu office as a bar for all to enjoy from Wednesday–Sunday night. Despite being the... Read more...
When metal-bar Inferno announced a new location on the south side, in a mall called Bund Square, which is actually quite... Read more...
So this new bar The Brewer just opened in Xintiandi. It's like a Shanghainese remix of Paulaner . Calling it a... Read more...
When someone asks where you and your significant other met, you wouldn't want to say "at a bar called Windows in Shanghai." Windows is the kind of place that gives away free tequila... Read more...
So a couple months ago this discreet little vodka lounge Catalog opened up on Yueyang Lu, right behind Hai By Goga. Aside from a few campy parties that evoke Rocky Horror and trash... Read more...
I'm skeptical about 80rmb+ cocktails. Been burned too many times. So when I saw the menu at Bar No. 3 , whose 50-something cocktails range from 80-115rmb, I was dubious. Well, these... Read more...
What if Hollywood's management made a high end club? Well, they JUST did, at the top of Bund 12 where that place Horizen was. That's the one that DJ Spenny invested in but
Where to go when the Yongkang Lu bar strip closes or Wang Ayi drops a bucket of water on you and your friends? These are harsh dilemmas expats face. Not only that, but now that... Read more...
Kiitos was always one of my favorite hidden watering holes in town, and when it shut down earlier this year, I didn't think it would stay that way for long. And, sure enough,... Read more...
More than half a decade after the speakeasy cocktail craze that has swept up cities like New York, Shanghai is experiencing its own. Well, we've got, like, three or so (hey, it's a start): Read more...
So the people behind Abbey Road and Geneva just opened a new sports bar called
The original Mokkos is one of Shanghai's best low-key places to have a drink. They've stayed hidden in an alley on Wuding Lu since 2006, slinging uplifting reggae tunes and... Read more...
I stumbled upon El Amor de la Vida while en route to another recently opened bar . By day,... Read more...
A new cocktail lounge called Barules opened softly this week and already seems to be a hit among fashionable, well-heeled types from Taiwan. It resides behind a sliding door framed by... Read more...
I'm starting to like Danshui Lu, more and more. Every time I go, something new crops up that has its own unique character and isn't swarmed by the slovenly herds of drunken foreigners like at