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Nestled in a business center a stone’s throw from Jing’an Temple is a new-ish club that goes by the name of Full Love Live House. Their name card proudly proclaims, “We Play Music, You Get Love”. You promise? Read more...
The Pudong Shangri-La is one of the oldest five-star hotels in the city, and for a long time, their F&B spots
Imagine a Perry's bar inside a train station KTV. Then fill it with characters you only know from WeChat moments (how I found the place), a lanky Shanghainese DJ with neck tats... Read more...
Just an unpretentious little spot with character, good drinks and, most importantly, love. We could use more of these. Read more...
A bold sign above Dope Shifu's entrance boasts, "The Temple of Ribs, Chamber of Beer, Fries of Surprise." Is that claim legit? Read more...
Lots of film books and some well-dressed kids peacocking their refined tastes in literature or whatever. Read more...
What happens to bars when they die? Do they dry up like a raisin in the sun? Do they turn to ash and then blow away in the wind? Does the ground open up and swallow them whole? Sometime in 2014, a big, unimaginative beer bar called
Whoever opened this magical new café BOTH in Red Town clearly loves music and doesn't mind if their record... Read more...
On quiet Yuyuan Lu in Jing’an, what was once a sleazy, micro-KTV with sticky sofas and rope swings has become a nice two-floor bar set up by a Kansan with some backing from Duvel.... Read more...
There’s a new speakeasy in town. On Yongjia Lu, a few blocks from those hellish watering holes on the corner of Hengshan, there’s a little barbershop that hides… Barber Shop , the... Read more...
Playboy is trending this month after they announced that they'll soon stop featuring nude models in their magazine. Coincidentally, a fake Playboy... Read more...
Here's another one from Constellation , the granddaddy of cocktail bars in Shanghai. This one is called
Last Saturday, in a bar on troubled Danshui Lu , the chengguan came in and started removing the furniture. Outside, crews were tearing down the facades and signs from... Read more...
Nowadays, if someone opens a "convenience store" selling mostly craft beer, Shanghai will compare them to The Beer Lady , a.k.a. Zhang Ayi on Fahuazhen Lu. Like Zhang... Read more...
Lower Jing'an already has The Shed , Dogtown ,
Call it an accidental speakeasy. Instead of making some elaborate, "secret" entrance cloaked as a Mountain Dew machine or a Xiao Long Bao shop, bartender Jerry Chen (ex-Read more...
Whisky L! is one of those events that the organizers probably don't want our readers to know about. The kind of affair that could end in nasty violence if the wrong sort... Read more...
China loves Korean soap operas, and beauty products, and boy bands, and plastic surgeons, and miniature juice drinks that aren't really that good, and fried chicken. Well, that's what the Korean-Chinese team behind new Koreatown nightclub
Ever since The Portman Center opened in 1990, a succession of bars have occupied the space where wine bar Read more...
Whiskey is a safer investment than stocks, and the owners of the tiny Comet bar -- hidden in an alley on Danshui Lu -- will probably be fine if the market tanks. They stock over a... Read more...
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