A pop-up by Tai'an Table, a Homeslice exclusive, Canto roast meats, Sichuan tofu noodles and special pho. Read more...
And it's right downtown. Read more...
Barflow, as a group, has always loved a good gimmick. They put Jagermeister in instant noodles at their cocktail bar on Shaanxi Lu. They built an entire other bar based on The Grand Budapest Hotel movie and called it the
Xintiandi has been renovating the hell out of its south mall in the past couple of years, and they are almost ready to unveil it. Kind of. Sort of. This past Monday was the "media launch" for Foodie Social , after which they promptly... Read more...
Assuming you have something to be thankful for. Read more...
Holiday dinner party season is coming up! Here's 15 popular places with full details. Read more...
A 1,388rmb tasting menu, a pedigreed chef and a pair of tweezers. Read more...
It's chestnut season. Apparently? From around October to about April, chestnut vendors set about preparing the little brown nuggets (they're called li zi, 栗子), seeds of the deciduous beech trees in the genus of Castanea, for cracking and consumption. Never been a huge fan of chestnuts. Chestnuts just seem so... I don't know. Rural? Like I'm meant to chew them open-mouthed, barefoot... Read more...
New locations of Joe's Pizza, Boteco, Heat, Xibo, Zeitgeist and pop-up Curry Gaeng! Read more...
Something, Blaz, Restaurant Lunar, Foodie Social, Obscura, Cellar to Table and more! Read more...
Chefs DeAille Tam and Simon Wong opened and ran Bo Shanghai in Five on the Bund a few years back, winning a Michelin star for their efforts. Then the place closed. Oops. But now they are back, after spending 2019 traveling around China, and they are getting ready to open a fancy new place.
Revisiting the nightclub restaurant at The House of Roosevelt. Read more...
Little slice of bagel news: the Cinnaswirl on Yuyuan Lu which Spread The Bagel moved into last year has been renovated... Read more...
Cocktail bar Arch has closed! The northern-most bar of the Tastebuds empire shut its doors, putting an end to that particular run of high-brow cocktail chemistry and some truly excellent pasta... Read more...
Earnest har gow or corporate hype balloon? Read more...
Ken Walker reintroduces the Bubbacue. Read more...
Eduardo Vargas's longest-running restaurant gets a new home and a fresh menu. Read more...
But how sticky is the General Tsao's Chicken? Read more...
Bad news: the affordable Korean BBQ and ganbei joint JUJU on Guangdong Lu quietly closed down over the October holiday, just one month shy of its one year anniversary. The graffiti-bedecked hall on the second-floor of Three on the Bund no longer echo with the sounds of blaring hip-hop and calls of... Read more...
California pizza franchise Pieology has opened two stores in Shanghai recently. They are kind of like Subway, in that you pick your crust, your sauce and then a huge number of toppings, claiming to give you 78 billion different pizza options. I went recently. I had two options. They were both an insult to pizza.... Read more...
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