China's top Chinese restaurant - Huangpu Club

The only top Chinese restaurant in the sea named after the mother river of Huangpu on Bund 3, the décor is simple and elegant, echoing the surrounding cluster of buildings of all nations. Sitting by the window, the arc of the Bund is perfectly rendered. The local dishes are authentic and creative, and both the order of serving and the presentation are quite westernized. The smoked fish is really good, the grilled silver cod with scallions is tender, and the fried shrimp balls with mustard sauce are oversized and satisfying.

Huangpu Club can accommodate more than 200 guests at a time. The five private dining rooms can accommodate up to 70 people when combined. There are also three fine tea rooms with carefully selected teas from around the country. Whether you are dining or simply enjoying a cup of tea, the waiters are always on hand to help you select the right tea leaves and demonstrate the charm of the tea ceremony. The restaurant is the first in China to harmonize tea and cuisine in the same restaurant. In terms of utensils, the restaurant is even more ingenious, with white porcelain tea sets, purple sand teapots, crystal utensils and jade tableware, each of which shows elegant taste and allows guests to enjoy a tactile feast in the restaurant.

With the most dazzling night view of the Pujiang River, with which **** Ming is star price, but the environment everywhere through the flavor of retro old Shanghai, let a person haunting, is a business banquet, socializing of course

Cuisine flavor: Shanghai cuisine

Suitable for type: family gatherings, couples dating, business negotiations, friends gatherings

Recommended dishes: roasted silver cod with green onion, wasabi sauce, silver cod, fish, fish, fish, fish, fish, fish, fish, fish, fish, fish and other food, and so on. Silver Cod, Deep Fried Shrimp Balls with Mustard Sauce, Smoked Fish, Old Shanghai Smoked Fish, Foie Gras, Foie Gras Glutinous Rice and Red Dates, Drunken Chicken, Shrimp Balls with Wasabi Sardines, Chilled Chicken with Yellow Wine, Abalone, Foie Gras Sauce, Shrimp Balls with Mustard Sauce, Shark's Fin, Steak

Address: 5F, The Bund, No.3, Zhongshan Dong Yi Yi Road, Huangpu District, China (near Guangdong Rd)

2) Shanghainese Cuisine Restaurant: The Extravagance of Foo 1088

Eat here! It's like being at one of the parties in Eileen Chang's novels. After pulling up outside a 1920s Spanish-style house that once housed the Bank of International Settlements in Shanghai, a waiter guides you through wooden-paneled aisles and tiled floors to private rooms decorated in early 20th-century style (there's no communal ****ing area). You may be seated in a luxury booth with an old-fashioned wall clock next to the mantelpiece, or in a bedroom under the eaves - the smallest booth seats only two people, while the largest can seat up to 40. In the private rooms, you can hear the sound of the grand piano from downstairs at set times.

The food is perfectly suited to the ambience, and it's mesmerizing. The kitchen team, led by local chef Tony Lu, handpicks traditional dishes from Shanghai and its neighboring regions, and they're beautifully crafted, including some that combine Chinese and Western flavors (such as barbecued pork ribs with koji sauce). On our most recent visit to Fu 1088, we ordered a selection of Shanghai's local favorites, including, in order of popularity, duck eggs, Ningbo-style stir-fried baby bok choy with shiitake mushrooms, crispy fish in soy sauce, "veggie geese" (dried shiitake mushrooms stuffed into a roll with a hundred leaves), and the sweet, but not too sweet, lotus root stuffed with pork. stuffed meat.

3) Fu 1039, Fu 1088.

Operator Fang's family has a distinguished lineage and naturally has a unique way of catering, which is now passed down through the third generation of Fang's family and has made a magnificent transformation into a restaurant that does not bear the name of a club, but possesses all the advantages that a private club has, such as privacy, high level and personalized service. In the restaurant, all the furniture, small ornaments and even lamps are carefully collected by the owner and old Shanghai collector Ms. Fang Fu Yafen, and many of the objects are from her grandmother's grandmother's era, which will tell you about the golden age of Shanghai in the modern era and let you feel the taste of the public house family's life in that era with the tip of your tongue. Because the staff here is very stable, the waiter is familiar with every customer here, familiar with their tastes and favorite rooms, the heart of the service as fine as dust, such as the old family members of the old public house family, so that you enter the door has a kind of into the family of the gold dust of the sense of splendor.

375 Zhenning Road, Jing'an District (Yuyuan Road)

1039 Yuyuan Road, Changning District (near Jiangsu Road)

4). The Old Foreign House Garden Hotel, No. 27 Shaoxing Road (between Ruijin 2 Road, South Shaanxi Road) used to be the private residence of Shanghai Bund tycoon Du Yuesheng's fourth aunt, and that background alone is very evocative. The fireplace, ornate chandeliers, floor-to-ceiling windows, and gramophone are traces of the life of Shanghai's golden girl. The interior is elegant, comfortable and open, and the small garden outside is small but well lit.

5). The Xijia Garden, an independent European-style villa, was built in 1913 and was originally the private residence of Xi-De Yi, the president of the Central Bank of the Kuomintang. After liberation, it was nationalized and became the principal's office building of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music High School. it was converted into a restaurant in 1998. No.1 Dongping Road (near Yueyang Road)

6). Across the end of Lane 156 of Fenyang Road is this old red-roofed, white-walled house completed in 1921. It was first used as the private residence of Daiasa, the head of the KMT's Military Intelligence Bureau, and it is said that the French were invited to design the building and part of the construction was done by the French, basically absorbing the French architectural style of the early 20th century. To modern eyes, the most distinctive feature of this building is the shape of the roof

7). When it comes to old houses, you can't miss Ruijin Hotel Building 3 (near Fuxing Middle Road) on Ruijin Second Road. Though the facade looks unassuming, you will be surprised to find a different world when you step into it. Nearly 50,000 square meters of woods and grass, the style of the Western-style buildings, no wonder many people do not like the publicity of the family like to hold weddings here, when Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling had been engaged in this.

Most of the houses in the restaurant are nostalgic route, regardless of the real and fake antiques into one, due to the high floor and its own house pressure, so this pile is not necessarily crowded. When you bring foreign friends (including foreigners), you can directly combine dining and cultural introduction into one, eliminating the need for sightseeing. Dining in an old foreign house sometimes sets up a situation all at once, allowing your rough-and-tumble friends to let loose and the ambiguity of the relationship to speak for itself.

8) Luting

Luting is as much a Chinese restaurant as it is a French one.

In Shanghai Xintiandi, the only place to open the "Xintiandi" "water eyes" is Taiping Lake, can dine while watching the lake view of the restaurant is only "Luting". The only restaurant where you can dine while enjoying the lake view is "Hu Ting". This exquisite villa transformed from Shikumen has three floors, the entire restaurant has only 7 tables, more than 700 square meters of the restaurant is arranged only 80 seats, an average of 9 square meters per seat, so spacious dining space in Shanghai is also quite rare.

Xintiandi, where the restaurant is located, was part of the French Concession in Shanghai in the last century, and the building itself is steeped in French culture. Even though the interior is decorated with blue and white porcelain vases and mahogany tables, the French-style stained glass in the windows still hints at its French roots. That's why the "Lake Hall" even has a French name, "Villa du Lac", meaning "Villa on the Lake".

According to Jan Buttgen, vice president of concierge at Xintiandi, it reminds him of France. The German, who reads Sartre and Nietzsche, savors the pleasure of eating by the lake, and the sublimation of the charm of food and beauty is "sharing," and there is no greater pleasure in Europe than sharing the art of living with friends in a dense forest and by a beautiful lake.

The restaurant specializes in Huaiyang cuisine. Wang Guangsen, the restaurant's consultant, says, "Cooking is also about design." In the traditional Huaiyang dish of "boiled dried silk," the restaurant uses boiling water to remove the smell of beans, but the lake hall uses chicken broth to cook it. General chef, a piece of dried tofu cut 18 slices, while the lake hall chef can cut out 32 slices, the more detailed the more flavorful silk. In addition, all the meat is removed from the bones, unlike most Chinese restaurants, so that beautiful diners don't lose their elegance.

Some details in the service are impressive. One is that when waiting for a meal in the living room, the waiters serve tea and coffee with a smile and a kneeling service, which is neither too modest nor very polite. The second is that when dining in the private room, the waiters, after serving the food, are backward to leave, not like the waiters in other restaurants who turn their heads and leave their asses to the guests.

9) Ming Xuan

Hidden in the Anting villa "Ming Xuan", the city's bustle, put aside, about three or five friends, pick a floor-to-ceiling window seat, on the autumn scenery to eat crab feast, is really a pleasant thing.

"Ming Xuan" is hidden in the quiet Shanghai Anting villa, this Spanish-style villa built in 1936 was originally the residence of the Kuomintang dignitaries, the narrow old staircase can only allow one person to walk, at first glance, it is a typical exclusive housing, "Ming Xuan" crab is also the origin of the "Ming Xuan". The crabs at "Ming Xuan" also come from a famous family, and are selected from the owner's own Zhiqiang Crab Farm.

Slow work makes fine work, and crab tasting requires patience.

The porcelain plate with the crabmeat and shark's fin, along with the silver stand, was carefully brought to the table, and everyone had a small cup of it in front of them. When you are wondering, the waiter has lit a stove under the stand, the shark's fin and crabmeat are simmering in front of you, and the heat is just right, so that the crabmeat and shark's fin are always warm, but not enthusiastic. After entering the mouth, the soft, lubricating texture accompanied by the unique sweetness of the crabmeat, wave after wave of the taste buds, soothing the nerves of the whole body.

The best way to express the "crab flavor" is to steam the hairy crabs, and you can tell the difference between good and bad in one bite. The hardness of the crab shell and the softness of the meat form a sharp contrast, once on the table to stimulate the desire of diners. In fact, it would be a waste to eat crabs in a gluttonous manner. Rinse your mouth first to remove any impurities, leaving enough room for aftertaste, and then slowly "pick at" the crab, garnished with a secret balsamic vinegar, to allow the crab's rich original flavor to ferment and dissipate. Finally, a small bowl of floating flower petals is brought to the table, and after washing your hands, the meal is truly complete.

Signature dishes of the Crab Feast: Crabmeat Shark's Fin, Crab Fillet and Asparagus, Sauteed Crab Paste, Crab Roe and Fish Lips, Steamed Crab Pincers.