The Place When it comes to sushi,there are some things that are just worth splashing out on,if you'll excuse the pun.But at the other end of the spectrum,the best quality sushi experiences are expensive enough to ...The Place When it comes to sushi,there are some things that are just worth splashing out on,if you'll excuse the pun.But at the other end of the spectrum,the best quality sushi experiences are expensive enough to compete with round-trip tickets to Tokyo.That elusive middle ground of Japanese restaurant is what we look foi;where it's reassuringly expensive without causing sticker shock when you open the menu.展开更多
What started out as neighborhood brewery founded by three friends,the brewer Gary Heynes,chef Kelley Lee,‘liker of good times’Lee Tseng,and latei;brewer Michael M.Jordan,bestowed Shanghai with one its most enduring ...What started out as neighborhood brewery founded by three friends,the brewer Gary Heynes,chef Kelley Lee,‘liker of good times’Lee Tseng,and latei;brewer Michael M.Jordan,bestowed Shanghai with one its most enduring craft beer empires:Boxing Cat.Now with three Boxing Cat locations,the Liquid laundry powerhouses,and Cobra Lily in Xintiandi,the group has been acquired by multinational brewery AB InBev,with the aim of continuing the popularization of craft beer among Chinese drinkers,consumption of which is reported to be growing at a rate of 40 percent per year.展开更多
The Place Following the viral success of Sichuan restau-rant Ben Lai on Shaanxi Lu,a bigger,shinier location has opened in Hubin Dao mall.Like the original,Ben Zhen cooks a ros-ter of classics,like bullfrog with ginge...The Place Following the viral success of Sichuan restau-rant Ben Lai on Shaanxi Lu,a bigger,shinier location has opened in Hubin Dao mall.Like the original,Ben Zhen cooks a ros-ter of classics,like bullfrog with ginger and peppers(RMB98)and Zigong-style dishes,a branch of Sichuan cuisine from a city of the same name.Contrary to its sterile,glitzy setting,which suggests Ben Zhen might of-fer a lite interpretation of Sichuan tastes,the kitchen's spice dial is turned up to 11.展开更多
The Place Just when we thought the ludicrously over-topped burger trend was locked away in the dungeon of food marketing ideas,it seems the beast has broken free.Maybe we're be-ing harsh-some people actually like ...The Place Just when we thought the ludicrously over-topped burger trend was locked away in the dungeon of food marketing ideas,it seems the beast has broken free.Maybe we're be-ing harsh-some people actually like burgers so layered in superfluous toppings they need be disassembled before eating.Whichever your pref-erence,there's no doubt that the meteoric rise of Shake Shack has ushered in a renaissance for burger minimalism.展开更多
The Place Skipping the introverted,serious and esoteric side of Japanese cuisine in favor of the kitsch and casual,Xime is a contemporary izakaya that's tearing up the restaurant rulebook.Its proprietor is British...The Place Skipping the introverted,serious and esoteric side of Japanese cuisine in favor of the kitsch and casual,Xime is a contemporary izakaya that's tearing up the restaurant rulebook.Its proprietor is British-born Sam Norris-whose previous efforts included Wishbone,and who counts experience in the kitchen of London's upmarket restaurant Nobu.Xime's.chef is Kobe-native Jun Nishio.展开更多
The Place Yannick Alleno:venerated custodian of French haute cuisine,recipient of six Michelin Stars and now proud parent to a third branch of his bistro concept Terroir Parisien,situated in one of the‘heritage'b...The Place Yannick Alleno:venerated custodian of French haute cuisine,recipient of six Michelin Stars and now proud parent to a third branch of his bistro concept Terroir Parisien,situated in one of the‘heritage'buildings in Raffles City Changning,a newly opened outdoor shopping complex in Zhongshan Park.展开更多
Here's a surprising fact for you:Japanese people once made up the largest demographic of expats living in Shanghai;a peak of 57,000 in 2012 which has since declined dramatically.Luckily for us,there remains,a whol...Here's a surprising fact for you:Japanese people once made up the largest demographic of expats living in Shanghai;a peak of 57,000 in 2012 which has since declined dramatically.Luckily for us,there remains,a whole subculture of restaurants,not to mention delghtfully itelligent toilets,that still caters to Japanese expats out in the Gubei and Hongiao hinterlands-you need only know where to look.Here's a few we can't live without,but be warned-you II need to step out of your former French Concession comfort zone to find them.展开更多
The Place In today's world,where industrial farming and spiraling meat consumption have produced unsavory environmental realities,"nose to taiF dining is high on dining agendas.Japanese yakitori restaurants,i...The Place In today's world,where industrial farming and spiraling meat consumption have produced unsavory environmental realities,"nose to taiF dining is high on dining agendas.Japanese yakitori restaurants,informal char・coal barbecue joints serving chicken skewers,have always been about off-beat offal,though most in Shanghai focus on conventional offerings.展开更多
In an age where spea keasies are starting to outnum ber conventional,out-of-the-closet cocktail bars,we'll forgive your groan upon hearing that Shanghai's newest one is surrepti-tiously hidden behind a Laundro...In an age where spea keasies are starting to outnum ber conventional,out-of-the-closet cocktail bars,we'll forgive your groan upon hearing that Shanghai's newest one is surrepti-tiously hidden behind a Laundromat.It's called Laundry Co.(no relation to Liquid Laundry),and comes from the minds behind Barbershop,which,you guessed it,does not offer haircuts.展开更多
The Place There's something oddly familiar about walking into RAC,a new cafe and wine bar on Anfu Lu-almost like we ve been there before.In some ways,we have.The project is a culmination of the former team of Far ...The Place There's something oddly familiar about walking into RAC,a new cafe and wine bar on Anfu Lu-almost like we ve been there before.In some ways,we have.The project is a culmination of the former team of Far West,a Franck Pecol-owned creperie that re-gretfiilly went under due to the fallout from the Farine expired flour scandal,which saw his once substantial footprint virtually eradicated from the former French Concession.展开更多
Navigating our way through the mine-field and goldmine that is eating and drinking in Shanghai,it’s often true that we stumble upon places by accident.In this instance,our intended target was a different bar(Madara,i...Navigating our way through the mine-field and goldmine that is eating and drinking in Shanghai,it’s often true that we stumble upon places by accident.In this instance,our intended target was a different bar(Madara,in case you were wondering,which has already closed after three months of operation due to a licensing blunder).展开更多
The Place In three and a half years of reviewing Shanghai's new restaurants,there have been many good times.There have also been bad times,and numerous bouts of food poiso ing.But there have never;evei;been times ...The Place In three and a half years of reviewing Shanghai's new restaurants,there have been many good times.There have also been bad times,and numerous bouts of food poiso ing.But there have never;evei;been times like 1767 Cocoon.See,this is a restaurant that shouldnt exist.Somewhere along the line,a shareholder should have stepped in and said,‘No,what's happening here is strange and incorrect.’But there were no alarms.There was no warning.展开更多
The Place As you and I go about our pedestrian little lives in Shanghai,the wheels of trade and politics turn in Washington DC and Beijing,shaping our world and even our diets as we scuttle about obliviously.Last year...The Place As you and I go about our pedestrian little lives in Shanghai,the wheels of trade and politics turn in Washington DC and Beijing,shaping our world and even our diets as we scuttle about obliviously.Last year in some smoke-filled room,it was agreed that US beef would once more be permitted into China after a 14-year ban.Disappointingly for USDA bigwigs,the response from Chinese consumers,since trained to appreciate the perceived’greener’réputation of Australian beef instead,has been more muted than the anticipated rapture and subséquent buying frenzy of the pride and pinnacle of American industrial farming.展开更多
Established in the year 2000,Little Creatures Brewery has come a long way from its birthplace in a'huge shed and former crocodile farm'in Fremantle,Western Australia.Considered a trailblazer in Australia's...Established in the year 2000,Little Creatures Brewery has come a long way from its birthplace in a'huge shed and former crocodile farm'in Fremantle,Western Australia.Considered a trailblazer in Australia's craft beer scene,their signature hop driven American-style Pale Ale was a'beer epiphany'for drinkers and brewers,becoming one of the country's most iconic beers.展开更多
Those of us living in China might hâve been spared the tumultuous drama that our US counterparts hâve experienced in 2017,but like always,the Middle Kingdom has had its own fair share of attention-grabbing h...Those of us living in China might hâve been spared the tumultuous drama that our US counterparts hâve experienced in 2017,but like always,the Middle Kingdom has had its own fair share of attention-grabbing headlines.From the boom of shared bikes to a presidential visit from The Donald,our team has put together a list of 2017's most unforgettable viral stories.展开更多
The Place With over 51,000 listed ramen shops,Japan's choices for noodles are more than the most voracious eater could tackle.To make sense of these myriad options,anonymous diners on restaurant listing sites like...The Place With over 51,000 listed ramen shops,Japan's choices for noodles are more than the most voracious eater could tackle.To make sense of these myriad options,anonymous diners on restaurant listing sites like Tabelog(the Japanese equivalent of Yelp or Dianping)rank them meticulously and stringently.To be the best in a particular area of town is a remark-able achievement.展开更多
Think of'made in China spirits,and baijiu,that notoriously pungent and potent white liquoi;springs to mind.But as has been the case with China's craft beer movement and,increasingly,viniculture,the country'...Think of'made in China spirits,and baijiu,that notoriously pungent and potent white liquoi;springs to mind.But as has been the case with China's craft beer movement and,increasingly,viniculture,the country's entrepreneurial landscape is proving potentially fertile ground for a new breed of premium spirits,both Western-style and Chinese.展开更多
The Place Sharing plates and gastrolounges were the MVP's of Shanghai dining for the past couple of years,but a seismic change is underfoot,judging by a flurry of'contemporary iza-kaya'restaurants that hav...The Place Sharing plates and gastrolounges were the MVP's of Shanghai dining for the past couple of years,but a seismic change is underfoot,judging by a flurry of'contemporary iza-kaya'restaurants that have opened.Like last month's hot ticket,Jeju Izakaya,Oha is also a bar-side eatery,owned by the same folks as Bar No 3.It's defined by an ever-shifting menu of small plates focusing on local ingre-dients,a beverage program on equal footing with the kitchen,and most definitively,a bar-like setting.展开更多
It's still dark outside,but the inter-section of Yongnian and Shunchang Lu bristles with street food vendors;and locals hungry for breakfast.Just a few blocks away is the slowly demol-ished urban cavity of Laoxime...It's still dark outside,but the inter-section of Yongnian and Shunchang Lu bristles with street food vendors;and locals hungry for breakfast.Just a few blocks away is the slowly demol-ished urban cavity of Laoximen,the old,pre-concession era city gate that was the traditional core of the city.The area is famed for its street food,but swathes of shops have closed or moved on in preparation for the area's modernization.For now,however,the breakfast market at Yongnian and Shunchang Lu looks safe.展开更多
The Place Just when Shanghai had us convinced that fancy interiors or bizarre foods were the secret to viral popularity;something comes along and proves us wrong:Cantonese-style hotpot,Lou Shang.
文摘The Place When it comes to sushi,there are some things that are just worth splashing out on,if you'll excuse the pun.But at the other end of the spectrum,the best quality sushi experiences are expensive enough to compete with round-trip tickets to Tokyo.That elusive middle ground of Japanese restaurant is what we look foi;where it's reassuringly expensive without causing sticker shock when you open the menu.
文摘What started out as neighborhood brewery founded by three friends,the brewer Gary Heynes,chef Kelley Lee,‘liker of good times’Lee Tseng,and latei;brewer Michael M.Jordan,bestowed Shanghai with one its most enduring craft beer empires:Boxing Cat.Now with three Boxing Cat locations,the Liquid laundry powerhouses,and Cobra Lily in Xintiandi,the group has been acquired by multinational brewery AB InBev,with the aim of continuing the popularization of craft beer among Chinese drinkers,consumption of which is reported to be growing at a rate of 40 percent per year.
文摘The Place Following the viral success of Sichuan restau-rant Ben Lai on Shaanxi Lu,a bigger,shinier location has opened in Hubin Dao mall.Like the original,Ben Zhen cooks a ros-ter of classics,like bullfrog with ginger and peppers(RMB98)and Zigong-style dishes,a branch of Sichuan cuisine from a city of the same name.Contrary to its sterile,glitzy setting,which suggests Ben Zhen might of-fer a lite interpretation of Sichuan tastes,the kitchen's spice dial is turned up to 11.
文摘The Place Just when we thought the ludicrously over-topped burger trend was locked away in the dungeon of food marketing ideas,it seems the beast has broken free.Maybe we're be-ing harsh-some people actually like burgers so layered in superfluous toppings they need be disassembled before eating.Whichever your pref-erence,there's no doubt that the meteoric rise of Shake Shack has ushered in a renaissance for burger minimalism.
文摘The Place Skipping the introverted,serious and esoteric side of Japanese cuisine in favor of the kitsch and casual,Xime is a contemporary izakaya that's tearing up the restaurant rulebook.Its proprietor is British-born Sam Norris-whose previous efforts included Wishbone,and who counts experience in the kitchen of London's upmarket restaurant Nobu.Xime's.chef is Kobe-native Jun Nishio.
文摘The Place Yannick Alleno:venerated custodian of French haute cuisine,recipient of six Michelin Stars and now proud parent to a third branch of his bistro concept Terroir Parisien,situated in one of the‘heritage'buildings in Raffles City Changning,a newly opened outdoor shopping complex in Zhongshan Park.
文摘Here's a surprising fact for you:Japanese people once made up the largest demographic of expats living in Shanghai;a peak of 57,000 in 2012 which has since declined dramatically.Luckily for us,there remains,a whole subculture of restaurants,not to mention delghtfully itelligent toilets,that still caters to Japanese expats out in the Gubei and Hongiao hinterlands-you need only know where to look.Here's a few we can't live without,but be warned-you II need to step out of your former French Concession comfort zone to find them.
文摘The Place In today's world,where industrial farming and spiraling meat consumption have produced unsavory environmental realities,"nose to taiF dining is high on dining agendas.Japanese yakitori restaurants,informal char・coal barbecue joints serving chicken skewers,have always been about off-beat offal,though most in Shanghai focus on conventional offerings.
文摘In an age where spea keasies are starting to outnum ber conventional,out-of-the-closet cocktail bars,we'll forgive your groan upon hearing that Shanghai's newest one is surrepti-tiously hidden behind a Laundromat.It's called Laundry Co.(no relation to Liquid Laundry),and comes from the minds behind Barbershop,which,you guessed it,does not offer haircuts.
文摘The Place There's something oddly familiar about walking into RAC,a new cafe and wine bar on Anfu Lu-almost like we ve been there before.In some ways,we have.The project is a culmination of the former team of Far West,a Franck Pecol-owned creperie that re-gretfiilly went under due to the fallout from the Farine expired flour scandal,which saw his once substantial footprint virtually eradicated from the former French Concession.
文摘Navigating our way through the mine-field and goldmine that is eating and drinking in Shanghai,it’s often true that we stumble upon places by accident.In this instance,our intended target was a different bar(Madara,in case you were wondering,which has already closed after three months of operation due to a licensing blunder).
文摘The Place In three and a half years of reviewing Shanghai's new restaurants,there have been many good times.There have also been bad times,and numerous bouts of food poiso ing.But there have never;evei;been times like 1767 Cocoon.See,this is a restaurant that shouldnt exist.Somewhere along the line,a shareholder should have stepped in and said,‘No,what's happening here is strange and incorrect.’But there were no alarms.There was no warning.
文摘The Place As you and I go about our pedestrian little lives in Shanghai,the wheels of trade and politics turn in Washington DC and Beijing,shaping our world and even our diets as we scuttle about obliviously.Last year in some smoke-filled room,it was agreed that US beef would once more be permitted into China after a 14-year ban.Disappointingly for USDA bigwigs,the response from Chinese consumers,since trained to appreciate the perceived’greener’réputation of Australian beef instead,has been more muted than the anticipated rapture and subséquent buying frenzy of the pride and pinnacle of American industrial farming.
文摘Established in the year 2000,Little Creatures Brewery has come a long way from its birthplace in a'huge shed and former crocodile farm'in Fremantle,Western Australia.Considered a trailblazer in Australia's craft beer scene,their signature hop driven American-style Pale Ale was a'beer epiphany'for drinkers and brewers,becoming one of the country's most iconic beers.
文摘Those of us living in China might hâve been spared the tumultuous drama that our US counterparts hâve experienced in 2017,but like always,the Middle Kingdom has had its own fair share of attention-grabbing headlines.From the boom of shared bikes to a presidential visit from The Donald,our team has put together a list of 2017's most unforgettable viral stories.
文摘The Place With over 51,000 listed ramen shops,Japan's choices for noodles are more than the most voracious eater could tackle.To make sense of these myriad options,anonymous diners on restaurant listing sites like Tabelog(the Japanese equivalent of Yelp or Dianping)rank them meticulously and stringently.To be the best in a particular area of town is a remark-able achievement.
文摘Think of'made in China spirits,and baijiu,that notoriously pungent and potent white liquoi;springs to mind.But as has been the case with China's craft beer movement and,increasingly,viniculture,the country's entrepreneurial landscape is proving potentially fertile ground for a new breed of premium spirits,both Western-style and Chinese.
文摘The Place Sharing plates and gastrolounges were the MVP's of Shanghai dining for the past couple of years,but a seismic change is underfoot,judging by a flurry of'contemporary iza-kaya'restaurants that have opened.Like last month's hot ticket,Jeju Izakaya,Oha is also a bar-side eatery,owned by the same folks as Bar No 3.It's defined by an ever-shifting menu of small plates focusing on local ingre-dients,a beverage program on equal footing with the kitchen,and most definitively,a bar-like setting.
文摘It's still dark outside,but the inter-section of Yongnian and Shunchang Lu bristles with street food vendors;and locals hungry for breakfast.Just a few blocks away is the slowly demol-ished urban cavity of Laoximen,the old,pre-concession era city gate that was the traditional core of the city.The area is famed for its street food,but swathes of shops have closed or moved on in preparation for the area's modernization.For now,however,the breakfast market at Yongnian and Shunchang Lu looks safe.
文摘The Place Just when Shanghai had us convinced that fancy interiors or bizarre foods were the secret to viral popularity;something comes along and proves us wrong:Cantonese-style hotpot,Lou Shang.
