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Cafes/Pubs/Bars

Shanghai has a good selection of cafes and bars, catering to all tastes and budgets. You might also like to try a traditional Chinese tea house for a refreshing drink during the day.

A few addresses:

• Cloud 9 Sky Lounge
  87/F Jin Mao Tower, 88 Century Boulevard
  Tel: 5049 1234
  Amazing views of Shanghai from this bar at the top of the world's highest hotel, the Hyatt. Attractive decor and good ambience.
  
  

• Arch Bar and Cafe
  439 Wukang Lu (by Huahai Zhong Lu)
  Tel: 6466 0807
  Lively cafe with bright decor and trendy clientele. Soups, salads and sandwiches during the day, cocktails at night!

• Bar 1931
  112 Maoming Road
  Tel: 6472 5264
  Quiet and cozy bar/cafe, decorated with memorabilia from 1930s Shanghai. Serves Shangainese snacks.
  
  
• Peace Hotel Jazz Bar
  20 Nanjing Xi Road
  Tel: 63216888
  Visit to enjoy a performance from the in-house jazz band. Music begins at 8pm every night.

Restaurants

Shanghai cuisine is often borrowed from the surrounding provinces. Fish, eel and crab and prepared with alcohol and served raw. Sugar is often used, frequently with soy sauce, resulting in a piquant savoury flavour. You may be served lime and ginger flavoured '1000-year-old eggs', braised meat balls or chicken baked in lotus leaves. Seafood is popular, including the local delicacy, Shanghai hairy crab. Dim sum are readily available as a snack and are a speciality in Shanghai.

• Nanxiang Mantou Dian
  85 Yu Yuan Road, Old Town God's Temple
  Tel: 6355 4206
  This extremely popular dim sum restaurant is something of a Shanghai institution. Queues are often lengthy, but the dim sum are reputed to be amongst the best in town

• M on the Bund
  7/F, No. 5 The Bund (at Guangdong Lu)
  Tel: (86-21) 6350-9988
  More expensive than average, this restaurant offers fine dining with a superb view of the Bund and the Huangpu river. During the summer you can enjoy outdoor dining on the terrace. Menu is primarily modern European, with some Asian and North African influences
  
  
• 1221
  1221 Yan'an Xi Lu (Fan Yu Lu)
  Tel: 6213 6585
  A lively, modern restaurant serving good quality Chinese and Shanghainese food. English menus are available.
  
  
• Hatsuhana
  House 9, 3911 Hongmei Lu (by Yan'An Xi Lu)
  Tel: 6261 6179
  An 'all you can eat' sushi restaurant - the quality is good and prices very reasonable
  
  
• Face
  4 Ruijin Guesthouse 118 Ruijin Er Road
  Tel: 64664328
  A little taste of the country in Shanghai, this country house has attractive grounds and a verandah where you can enjoy a pre-dinner drink before dining at one of the two restaurants.