Here are all the new restaurant and bar openings we featured in our March 2017 issue.
Restaurants
Brut Cake Cafe
When Brut Cake furniture store opened on Anfu Lu four years ago, people walking in kept asking, “Where are the cakes?” Clearly the owners saw an opportunity and came up with a new concept for the brand: a Melbourne-style café filled with the atelier’s very own furniture. Enter Brut Cake Café.
Price: RMB60-80 per person
Who’s going: expats, young people, families
Good for: groups, casual food, brunch
Read the full review here. See a listing for Brut Cake Café.
Bombay Bistro
A street that bore many afflictions during the great F&B cull of 2016, Yongfu Lu has seen its biggest attractions (Shelter, the taco truck – tragically lost to a street fire – and Bocado) taken away. What remains? Street corner dudes selling Xinjiang oregano, the Apartment, and new Bombay Bistro: “fine Indian cuisine” in what once was Bocado.
Price: RMB200-300 per person
Who’s going: mainly expats
Good for: groups, Indian dining
Read the full review here. See a listing for Bombay Bistro
Boya
With a logo reminiscent of Club Med’s circa 1987, you’d be forgiven for dismissing Boya as yet another unremarkable mall restaurant. But look beyond the surface, and you’ll find one of the few eateries serving Israeli cuisine. In fact, following the unfortunate closure of Dagu Lu stalwart Haya's last year, Boya is the only Israeli restaurant in Shanghai, at least according to Dianping.
Price: RMB48-150 per person
Who’s going: mainly expats, friends of the owner
Good for: Israeli food, falafel, kebabs, brunch
Read the full review here. See a listing for Boya
The Chop Chop Club
Paul Pairet, father to Mr & Mrs Bund, instigator of Ultraviolet (the most expensive dinner you can get in Shanghai) has opened a new restaurant inside Bund lounge Unico, and it’s decidedly more affordable.
The Chop Chop Club, a carvery that twists the format of a restaurant to make it feasible that everyone, even us peasants not accustomed to ordering expensive large-format meats like turbot and côte de boeuf, can have a slice.
Price: RMB400-500 per person (plus 10 percent service)
Who’s going: expats and locals
Good for: groups, carnivores
Read the full review here. See a listing for The Chop Chop Club
Bars
Above the Globe
Atop Jing’an’s McKinnon Hotel is new a bar: Above the Globe, an Art Deco-informed lounge from Eddy Yang of the renowned Tailor Bar. If you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of the McKinnon, that’s because it isn’t real. Completely outfitted as a hotel but never accepting reservations, it is instead the site of the acclaimed immersive theater production Sleep No More.
Price: 100-300 per person
Who’s Going: Young locals, theater geek types
Good For: whisky-based cocktails, small-medium groups
Read the full review here. See a listing for Above the Globe
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