Silan Description

Situated in a more than hundred-year-old historic building near Sinan Mansions, you’ll find a gateway into the Paris of the East, an homage to a bygone era of the pre-WWII Old Shanghai at Silan. 

The restaurant is split across four levels, with no common area, only private rooms fitting parties from four to 40 people. Each individual room is named after a famous Shanghai street from the early 1900s, outfitted with relics from a Shanghai past – influences from both the east and west – in an upscale parlor setting. 

A muted color scheme of red, blue and green is a common thread running across this tiered venue, with antique lounge chairs encircling large tables, vintage brass lamps effusing warm light, spin dial phones from a time period long before the word wireless was invented, gilded phonographs, gold tasseled, heavy velvet curtains and tessellated stained-glass windows, interspersed with a lot of timeworn wood. Evoking a feeling of old school opulence, the restaurant represents a period of grandeur in our great city’s past that we can only now grasp at through books.