Dining in Huangpu, Shanghai (2026)

These are places I’d actually take my own family, friends, and clients.

A researched, verified starting set. Each listing is checked against multiple sources and includes a direct map link, English and Chinese address. This list grows every week.

Dining by neighbourhood Xuhui 24Huangpu 23Jing'an 18Hongkou 3Changning 3

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Bakery Xintiandi, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Butterful & Creamorous

Butterful & Creamorous

Butterful & Creamorous is a Seoul-born bakery in Xintiandi Style I on Xingye Lu in Huangpu, Shanghai, the pastry shop that launched a thousand Instagram posts. Known for its buttery croissants, signature cream pastries, and the iconic deep green takeaway bag. The Shanghai outpost draws crowds for its flaky pain au chocolat and seasonal specials. Expect a queue on weekends.

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Bar Huangpu Researched & Verified

Penicillin

Penicillin 盘尼西林酒吧

Penicillin is a low-waste cocktail bar on Nanchang Lu, near Yandang Lu in Huangpu, Shanghai, that came over from Hong Kong in 2025. The bar made its name on closed-loop, low-waste drinks, and that thinking runs through the Shanghai list: fermented rice water, grilled cabbage soda, spirits reworked from kitchen offcuts. Cocktails sit around 88 RMB, with a few considered mocktails for anyone off the sauce. The room carries a lab-like curiosity, though the welcome stays warm. No reservations, so come early on weekends. It draws a mixed crowd of drinks people and curious regulars from across the city.

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Restaurant Huangpu (The Bund) Researched & Verified

Villa Le Bec (Bund City Hall)

Villa Le Bec (外滩·中央大厅)

Villa Le Bec is an all-day French restaurant that has left its Changning villa and reopened inside the restored Bund City Hall, a neoclassical 1914 building a block from the Bund in Huangpu, Shanghai. The new multi-floor setup runs an all-day bistro and cafe on the ground floor, a more refined French restaurant upstairs, wine and event spaces above, and a cellar for imported French wines below. It is a grand, all-day way to eat French near the river, from a morning pastry to a proper dinner.

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Fine Dining People's Square, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Vivant by Johnny Pham

Vivant by Johnny Pham is a Michelin-starred French-Vietnamese restaurant near People's Square in Huangpu, set in the century-old Far Eastern Hotel. Johnny Pham cooked at Taian Table before opening his own room here, and in the 2026 Michelin guide it earned a star of its own. The French chef of Vietnamese descent runs a single seasonal tasting menu (1,888 RMB plus 10 percent) that moves between French technique and Vietnamese memory: think bouillabaisse with fish maw, pigeon with huangjiu. A special-occasion room with a story, and worth booking well ahead.

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Fine Dining Maoming Nan Lu, Huangpu Researched & Verified

1929 by Guillaume Galliot

1929 by Guillaume Galliot is a French fine-dining restaurant on Maoming Nan Lu in Huangpu, set inside the restored 1929 Cathay Mansion, now the Jinjiang Hotel's Jinbei Building. Guillaume Galliot, the chef behind Hong Kong's three-star Caprice, has planted his first Shanghai flag here, serving French cuisine with Asian accents under towering ceilings and vintage windows: blue lobster with Shaoxing wine sauce, a king crab laksa. There are two bars, one easy daytime lounge and one intimate upstairs perch, and the room feels like the building's history got a second act. New to the 2026 Michelin selection.

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Restaurant The Bund, Huangpu Researched & Verified

The Dome

The Dome is a modern Japanese omakase restaurant and rooftop lounge on the Bund in Huangpu, spread across two floors of 1 Yan'an Dong Lu with skyline views over the river. From the team behind The Fellas and Captain Bar, it runs a nightly omakase alongside sushi, sashimi and grilled plates, with cocktails and sake. Upstairs the Skyline Dome terrace becomes a late-night lounge with DJs, so it works for a quiet counter dinner or a night that keeps going.

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Cafe Nanchang Lu, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Metal Hands

铁手咖啡

Metal Hands is a specialty coffee shop at 234 Nanchang Lu in Huangpu, a calm block near Xintiandi. The concrete-and-wood interior, with its skylight and greenery, is as thoughtful as the coffee. It's one of the few mainland China cafes to land on a global specialty coffee ranking. Order a dirty, espresso poured over cold milk, or a seasonal riff like the cinnamon poached-egg latte (yes, that's a thing) or pistachio dirty. Come for a serious cup, stay for a second in a room made for lingering.

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Restaurant People's Square, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Jia Jia Tang Bao (Huanghe Road)

佳家汤包(黄河路店)

Jia Jia Tang Bao (佳家汤包) is a made-to-order xiaolongbao (soup dumpling) shop on Huanghe Road food street, two minutes from People's Square. Open since 1986 and now at No.127 after moving across the street, it steams each basket only after you order, so the soup inside arrives scalding and the skins stay thin. Pork baskets run around 25 RMB for 12, crab roe versions around 38 to 60 RMB. Order and pay at the counter, share a table, and go before noon if you want the crab ones, they sell out.

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Restaurant Yu Garden, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Nanxiang Mantou Dian (Yu Garden)

南翔馒头店(豫园店)

Nanxiang Mantou Dian is a century-old xiaolongbao (soup dumpling) house in the Yu Garden bazaar, Huangpu, right beside the zigzag bridge. The brand dates to 1900 and carries the Nanxiang steamed-bun tradition that made Shanghai soup dumplings famous; it appears in the Michelin Guide. The ground-floor window sells takeout baskets to the queue, while the upper floors seat you for crab roe and pork versions, around 35 RMB and up for six. Come at opening time or mid-afternoon, the bridge-side queue at lunch is real.

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Restaurant People's Square, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Godly (Gongdelin, Nanjing West Road)

功德林（南京西路店）

Godly, known in Chinese as Gongdelin, is a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant on Nanjing West Road in Huangpu, and it has been serving plant-based Shanghainese and Huaiyang cooking since 1922. The kitchen works in the old temple-cuisine tradition, turning wheat gluten, tofu skin and mushrooms into versions of duck, ham and fish that arrive looking like the thing they are imitating. Everything on the menu is meat-free, which makes ordering unusually low-stress if you are vegetarian and tired of interrogating waiters. Come for the mock duck and the vegetarian goose, and note the split service hours: the kitchen closes mid-afternoon and again after nine.

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Restaurant Huaihai Lu, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Jujube Tree (Songshan Road)

枣子树（松山路店）

Jujube Tree, or Zaozishu, is a casual vegetarian restaurant off Huaihai Middle Road in Huangpu, and it is the one most people here recommend first to a newly arrived vegetarian. The menu runs to modern Chinese vegetarian and vegan cooking across several regional styles, with mock meats built from tofu, seitan and yam alongside straightforward mushroom and vegetable dishes. It is written in English with photographs, which removes most of the guesswork. The group has run in Shanghai since 2001 on a no-meat, no-egg, no-alcohol premise, so a vegan can order from the whole menu rather than three corners of it.

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Restaurant Middle Huaihai Road, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Highline

Highline is an American restaurant and rooftop lounge on the sixth floor of Hong Kong Plaza North Tower, Middle Huaihai Road, in Huangpu. The kitchen leans Southern and comfort-American, with chicken and waffles, house burgers, and a signature prime rib. The terrace draws a busy weekend brunch crowd for its wide city views. Expect to spend around ¥300 per person for brunch or a casual dinner, more if you order the prime rib. A relaxed choice for weekend brunch or an evening cocktail above the street.

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Hot Pot Huangpu Researched & Verified

Lao Men Kuang Bao Du Shuan Rou (Huaihai East Road)

老门框爆肚涮肉馆（淮海东路店）

Old-school Beijing copper pot: a charcoal-heated chimney pot, hand-cut lamb from Inner Mongolia, and sesame dipping sauce. Northern, no-nonsense, and the lamb quality is a clear step above the chains. Simple and satisfying.

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Hot Pot People's Square, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Zuo Ting You Yuan Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot (New World City)

左庭右院鲜牛肉火锅（新世界城店）

Chaoshan beef hot pot done the fresh way: the beef arrives cut minutes before you cook it, and the menu maps each cut to the seconds it needs in the clear broth. Throat meat (喉咙肉) and hanging tender (吊龙) are the ones to order. Clean, precise, and all about the beef.

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Rooftop Bar The Bund, Huangpu Researched & Verified

The Captain Bar (Fuzhou Lu)

船长酒吧（福州路店）

A long-loved rooftop perch above Fuzhou Lu, one street back from the Bund: a straight-on view of the Pudong skyline without the five-star markup. Come for the sunset, stay for the lights on the water.

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Bar Sinan Mansions, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Boxing Cat Brewery

拳击猫

Boxing Cat Brewery is one of the taprooms that built Shanghai's craft beer scene, spread over three floors in Building 26 of Sinan Mansions in Huangpu. It brews its own range of ales and lagers, pours a rotating tap list, and does proper pub food alongside, which makes it the reliable all-round choice for a craft beer night in the central districts. A pint of house craft runs about 50 to 80 RMB, with an early-evening happy hour worth timing your visit around. The scene changes fast, so check current hours on Dianping before you go.

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Bar Fuxing Zhong Lu, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Speak Low

Speak Low 彼楼

Speak Low is a four-floor cocktail bar on Fuxing Zhong Lu in Huangpu, reached through the OCHO bar-tool shop that fronts it. Each floor runs its own concept and its own menu: the second is the loud, sociable one where the classics start in the mid 80s RMB, and the rooms above get quieter, more precise and reservation-led. It has held a place on the international bar rankings for years, and the average spend sits around 220 RMB a head. Come on a weeknight if you want a seat and a bartender with time to talk.

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Restaurant Fuzhou Lu, Huangpu Researched & Verified

Wang Bao He

王宝和酒家（福州路店）

Wang Bao He is a Shanghainese crab house on Fuzhou Lu in Huangpu, the address locals name first when hairy crab season opens. The kitchen builds its reputation on steamed hairy crab and warm yellow rice wine, and extends into full crab banquets where every course carries crab in some form. Reviewers put the average spend at 300 to 350 RMB a head. It serves lunch and dinner in two separate sittings and fills through October and November, so book ahead if you want a table in the season it is famous for.

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Restaurant Huangpu Researched & Verified

Sir Elly's Terrace

艾利爵士餐厅

Sir Elly's sits high in The Peninsula Shanghai on the Bund in Huangpu, with an adjoining rooftop bar and an open-air terrace above. The dining room blends art deco style with wide windows over the Huangpu River and Pudong skyline, while the terrace offers a wraparound evening view across the river and the Bund. The kitchen now serves contemporary Northern Italian cooking under chef Eugenio Cannoni, a shift from its earlier modern European menu. A full dinner typically costs around 1,300 RMB per person before surcharges. It holds a Michelin star.

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Bar Huangpu Researched & Verified

Bar Leone Shanghai

Bar Leone 上海

Bar Leone Shanghai is a cocktail bar on Middle Fuxing Road in Huangpu, the first mainland-China outpost of the Hong Kong bar that topped the 2025 World's 50 Best Bars ranking. Opened on 9 November 2025, it spans two floors. The ground-floor Bar di Passo is a spritz bar inspired by Milan's Camparino, pouring seasonal spritzes on tap, including a Spumoni of Earl Grey, Campari, and grapefruit, plus Italian aperitivo snacks and house vermouth blends. No reservations, so queues at peak hours; an upper floor with spirit-forward cocktails opens later. Drinks cost around 80 to 120 RMB.

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Bar Huangpu Researched & Verified

Roosevelt Sky Bar

罗斯福空中酒廊

Roosevelt Sky Bar is a rooftop bar and lounge on the upper floors of the House of Roosevelt at Bund 27, in Huangpu, with open-air terraces that look straight across the Huangpu River to the Lujiazui skyline. It serves modern European plates, champagne and house cocktails, with a covered glasshouse section for cooler nights. Expect to spend around ¥300 to ¥400 per person for drinks and small plates, with cocktails roughly ¥90 to ¥130 and a happy hour that softens the bill. It suits a first-night drink in Shanghai, a date, or out-of-town guests who want the classic Bund view.

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Rooftop Bar The Bund, Huangpu Researched & Verified

The Fellas

The Fellas is a modern Italian restaurant and terrace bar on the seventh floor of a historic building on Yan'an Dong Lu in Huangpu, a block off the Bund, with the Pudong skyline in full view from the outdoor tables. The kitchen runs an Italian menu of antipasti, fresh pasta, pizza and seafood, and the wine and cocktail list is what keeps the terrace busy after dinner. Service is evenings only, from 5:30pm, which makes it a sunset booking rather than a lunch one. Reckon on about 400 to 450 RMB a head with a couple of drinks. Terrace seats fill first on clear nights, so ask for one when you book.

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Char Bar

Char Bar is a rooftop bar and steakhouse on the top three floors of Hotel Indigo Shanghai on the Bund, at 585 Zhongshan Dong Er Lu in Huangpu, looking straight across the river at the Pudong skyline. The 29th and 30th floors hold the indoor grill room and bar, and the open terrace above them is the reason most people come, particularly at sunset when the Lujiazui towers light up. The kitchen is steak-led, with cocktails and wine served through the evening; doors open at 17:00 and the bar runs to around 01:00. It sits at the quieter southern end of the Bund promenade, below the Yan'an Dong Lu junction and away from the crush at the Peace Hotel end. The terrace is weather dependent, so book ahead on a clear night and expect to move indoors if it rains.

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