Shanghai
The hand-picked Shanghai list: 35 venues chosen for quality, service, and how well they work for English-speaking visitors.
35 curated entries in Shanghai
Verified TrustFu He Hui
Shanghai · Restaurants
A Michelin-starred vegetarian tasting menu that treats vegetables with the gravity of a tasting menu.
Verified TrustM50 Art District
Shanghai · Shopping & Creative
Fifty independent galleries inside a former textile mill, where Shanghai's contemporary art scene lives.
Verified TrustMandarin Oriental Spa
Shanghai · Wellness
One of Asia's best hotel spas, with treatment rooms looking straight at the Bund skyline.
Verified TrustLost Heaven
Shanghai · Restaurants
Yunnan's spice, smoke, and ritual in a dark-wood French Concession mansion that feels like a film set.
Verified TrustTianzifang
Shanghai · Shopping & Creative
A living maze of shikumen lanes packed with studios, tiny galleries, and cafes - Shanghai's bohemian heart.
Verified TrustFuxing Park Morning
Shanghai · Wellness
Shanghai's liveliest morning: tai chi under the plane trees, then ballroom tango on the terrace.
Verified TrustPeace Hotel Old Jazz Bar
Shanghai · Culture
The world's oldest jazz band - average age over 80 - playing swing in a 1929 Art Deco lobby.
Verified TrustUnTour Food Tours
Shanghai · Agencies
Shanghai's acclaimed food tours: soup dumplings at dawn, night markets, and kitchens most tourists never find.
Verified TrustShanghai Foodie
Shanghai · Agencies
Shanghai's top-rated food tours - street-food classics by day, late-night runs and breweries after dark.
Verified TrustWendy Wei Tours
Shanghai · Agencies
China's most trusted private tour operator - tailor-made Shanghai days, from Yuyuan Garden to Tongli water town.
Verified TrustShang Xia
Shanghai · Shopping & Creative
The Hermes-backed Chinese luxury house - furniture, ceramics, and clothing that revive imperial craft.
Verified TrustLeiyunshang
Shanghai · Wellness
A 280-year-old Shanghai TCM brand - herbal clinics, tuina massage, and remedies that locals swear by.
Verified TrustBanyan Tree Spa
Shanghai · Wellness
A spa above the Huangpu River with treatments built around traditional Chinese healing.
Verified TrustSheng Yong Xing
Shanghai · Restaurants
The MICHELIN-starred Peking duck that changed the rules: lean birds, glassy skin, and a serious wine list.
Verified TrustMid-Lake Pavilion Teahouse
Shanghai · Culture
Shanghai's 'No. 1 Teahouse', perched on the Nine Zigzag Bridge in Yu Garden since 1784 - a tea ceremony and a time machine.
Verified TrustGokurakuyu Biyun
Shanghai · Wellness
A Japanese-style hot spring bathhouse in Pudong: mineral baths, saunas, and a buffet - the bathhouse experience TikTok discovered.
Verified TrustLong Feng Qipao
Shanghai · Shopping & Creative
Shanghai's heritage qipao house since 1936, on the old-brand street where the Soong sisters once shopped.
Verified TrustW.W. Chan & Sons
Shanghai · Shopping & Creative
The legendary Shanghainese bespoke tailor on Maoming Road - three fittings, hand-cut suits, and a worldwide trunk-show circuit.
Verified TrustDragonfly
Shanghai · Wellness
Shanghai's favorite English-friendly massage chain: seven branches, proper foot reflexology, and a menu in English.
Verified TrustCook In Shanghai
Shanghai · Culture
English-taught cooking classes, calligraphy workshops, and wet-market tours on Huaihai Road.
Verified TrustShui Guo Tangquan
Shanghai · Wellness
Shanghai's most Instagrammed bathhouse: all-day soaking, free fruit, streaming screens, and design-savvy lounges.
Verified TrustTang Lian De
Shanghai · Wellness
A clean, Japanese-style hot-spring bathhouse in Pudong, beloved by local families for its spa-grade water.
Verified TrustQu Shui Lan Ting
Shanghai · Wellness
Shanghai's most luxurious bathhouse - a marble palace of private hot-spring rooms, spa treatments, and late-night dining.
Verified TrustJun He Hall TCM
Shanghai · Wellness
A modern, English-friendly traditional Chinese medicine clinic where acupuncture, tuina, and herbal therapy meet hospital-grade care.
Verified TrustYong Fu
Shanghai · Restaurants
A Michelin-starred temple of Ningbo coastal cuisine, where seafood arrives from the East China Sea that morning.
Verified TrustYu Wai Tan
Shanghai · Restaurants
Michelin-starred Fujian cuisine with a front-row view of the Bund, serving the delicate seafood cooking of southern China.
Verified TrustYongFoo Elite
Shanghai · Restaurants
Two-Michelin-star Shanghainese cuisine in a 1930s garden villa - the most romantic dinner table in the city.
Verified TrustLao Ji Shi
Shanghai · Restaurants
A Michelin-listed Shanghainese institution in a French-concession lane house, beloved for its crab and eel dishes.
Verified TrustFú 1015
Shanghai · Restaurants
A two-Michelin-star private dining villa on Yuyuan Road, serving seasonal Shanghainese tasting menus in a mansion setting.
Verified TrustRen He Guan
Shanghai · Restaurants
A Michelin-starred Shanghainese dining room that packs in three generations of locals for crab, eel, and red-braised pork.
Verified TrustDuo Yun Xuan
Shanghai · Culture
Shanghai's 120-year-old house of brushes and ink, where painters buy their tools and collectors bid on masters.
Verified TrustYin Xi Teahouse
Shanghai · Culture
A garden-calm teahouse chain in leafy Shanghai neighborhoods, where tea is brewed properly and time slows down.
Verified TrustDa Ke Tang
Shanghai · Culture
A leafy French-concession villa devoted to aged pu'er tea, with vintages poured in drawing-room luxury.
Verified TrustMan Lou Lan
Shanghai · Shopping & Creative
Shanghai's leading modern qipao atelier, cutting made-to-measure dresses that have graced runways and red carpets.
Verified TrustJing Cai Xuan
Shanghai · Restaurants
A polished Cantonese dining room beloved by Shanghai's business elite, famous for its roast meats and dim sum.