This petite eatery offers a box of honest and simple Korean food with a smile. Huanguo Chufang Express's compact location coincides with the growth of the express-food scene in Shanghai.
This airy addition to the ever-fresh Ferguson Lane complex offers a fair effort at classic British cuisine. Slotting into the slightly quirky space previously occupied by Grill Bull, Notting Hill British Cuisine is split into a conservatory and larger casual dining room. The latter is plainly dressed and plastered with stock photos and foodie platitudes, along with a clichéd cardboard telephone box. The darker, more intimate conservatory is definitely more appealing.
Designer tiles, jovial service and a plate of honest food are the hallmarks of a modern Scandinavian café and EQ has all three in abundance. From behind a pristine glass counter, the Danish owners of this newcomer to the Super Brand Mall serve up a changing menu of marketing heavy ‘life balancing’ bites with a smile on their faces.
Oza Oza has one of Shanghai’s worst layouts as a restaurant, yet it produces a degree of experimental cuisine that many wouldn’t dare to try.
When a progressive coffee shop acquires a derelict kiosk to open a Mexican taqueria, great things surprisingly can happen. The owners of Sumerian have joined the emerging wave of Shanghai’s answer to the globally adored food truck and pulled up the shutters next door on a tiny five-sq. meter kitchen. Every night Dogtown serves Mexican treats to a lively kerbside audience.
With good food, a relaxed atmosphere and a swanky edge, we wonder why there aren’t more upbeat dining venues like Le Viet around Shanghai.
3 Michelin Stars is not enough for Jean Georges. Nor is a dozen other restaurants in New York. A handful in Asia? Still no. Even after JG has established one of the finest long-term restaurants in China he's still not happy. Will a category-defining Korean restaurant in Shanghai satiate his appetite for seed-spreading, or are cross-category Chefs the new form of global dominance?