Here are all the new restaurant and bar openings we featured in our April 2017 issue.
Restaurants
Dodu
Rotisserie chicken isn't a new thing – kids have been roasting beasts on spits since pretty much the Iron Age. And we mean, literally, kids, whose job back in the Medieval days was to turn the roasting spit over an open fire, a job later designated to dogs on wheels and finally, electric motors like those at Dodu, a new French rotisserie spot on Changshu Lu.
Price: RMB69 per person
Who’s going: French expats, locals
Good for: rotisserie chicken, small groups, French cooking
Read the full review here. See listing here.
Sober Kitchen
Sober Company comprises a café, kitchen, cocktail bar and secret speakeasy. The place is a love letter to New York where Gokan worked for years, most notably as mixologist at famed cocktail bar Angel’s Share. The café and bar parts of the venue are inspired by the West and East Villages respectively, while Sober Kitchen, which this review will discuss, takes a nod from Chinatown.
Price: RMB200-300 per person
Who’s going: young locals
Good for: dates, Japanese-style Chinese food, ballsy cocktails
See listing here.
Ostra
You might think reviewing restaurants is a bed of roses, but it is not without its foibles. Occasional food poisoning aside, the biggest gripe is seeing nice restaurants ruined by crap food, which more often than not is ruinously expensive too. Our most recent encounter is Ostra, a stunning new seafood bistro just next to the Jing An Kerry Centre, which taught us more than we had expected to learn about money and how the rich spend it.
Price: RMB500-1200 per person, plus 10 percent service charge
Who’s going: wealthy locals
Good for: break up dates
Read the full review here. See listing here.
Goose Island Brewhouse
Executives at Anheuser-Busch InBev (the world’s largest brewing company) know this, and for that reason they’ve selected their golden child ‘local champion’ craft beer brand, Goose Island, to spearhead a bold new project that’s set to revitalize one of the shittier Shanghai streets that really ought to be less shitty: Maoming Bei Lu, just off Nanjing Xi Lu. Enter the Goose Island Brewhouse.
Price: RMB150-300 per person
Who’s going: locals and expats
Good for: groups, craft beer pairings
Read the full review here. See listing here.
Bars
Blackstone Magic Bar
Blackstone Magic Bar does have a theme, but with good reason. It is part cocktail bar, part magical theater. As in, a proper little amphitheater where magical illusionists host intimate performances every Thursday to Saturday, and a proper little cocktail bar with a menu designed by the insouciant-looking mixologist Chris Xi. The place was founded by Bund 18 owner Anson Chen, who along with co-founder Joe Deng is also a magician and performer at Blackstone.
Price: Drinks from RMB80, shows from RMB240 per person
Who’s going: locals and expats
Good for: dates, small groups
Read the full review here. See listing here.
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