We've launched our very first Time Out Shanghai Food Awards. The New Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year category asks which is the most exciting special-occasion restaurant to open in Shanghai in 2016? Here are the nominees.
Show your most-loved restaurants, eateries and food personalities you care – and enter for a chance to win a trip to Macau while you’re at it! See details on how to vote below and check out the full list of awards and nominees here.
Alan Wong's Shanghai
Having been inducted into the American Academy of Chefs Hall of Fame and often referred to as a ‘Master of Hawaii Regional Cuisine’, Alan Wong has some serious credentials and a reputation that Shanghai diners critique with little forgiveness. And those critics have spoken – the restaurant’s tasty, interesting modern-Hawaiian cuisine delivers a fun and unique eating experience that’s well worth the high price tags.
Second Floor, Shanghai Centre, 1376 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Xikang Lu, Jingan district.
Anthologia
Restaurants in Shanghai with dramatic flourishes in their dining experiences are nothing especially new, but Anthologia puts the theatrical front and centre. And the draw extends beyond novelty – its the refreshing experience, rotating menu and quality of food that keeps people coming back here; to a place where cooking is much more than the mere afterthought that often occurs with such ambitious concepts.
Room 105-7, Bldg 6, Xingfu Li, 381 near Panyu Lu, near Fahuazhen Lu, Changning district.
Bo Shanghai
Chef Alvin Leung of three-Michelin-starred Bo Innovation in Hong Kong isn't pulling any punches with his pricey new fine-dining venture on The Bund. The Demon Chef’s ten-course tasting menu – a riff off China's eight traditional cuisines created via techniques and ingredients of international cuisines – is an all-out, no-regrets meal of some of the most interesting food in the city.
Sixth floor, Five on the Bund, 20 Guangdong Lu, Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu, Huangpu district.
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
With Michelin-starred restaurants spanning the globe and awards including Chef of the Year and Chef of the Century under his belt, Joël Robuchon is more or less a culinary god. With this hotly anticipated first foray into Mainland China, the restaurant’s Executive Chef Francky Semblat has absolutely excelled in putting together a solid team of chefs who are deliciously carrying out the Robuchon name.
Bund 18, 18 Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu, near Nanjing Dong Lu, Huangpu district.
Sabor
From the mind of forward-thinking Diego Guerrero of Madrid’s Michelin-starred DSTAgE, the chef’s Shanghai locale delivers a blind adventure in eating – no menu, no indication of what you might be served, only price points – that’s well worth the leap of faith. Playful and experimental in a way that’s not yet the norm in our city, Sabor is a whiff of fresh air you’ll want to take a long breath of.
33 Sichuan Zhong Lu, near Guangdong Lu, Huangpu district.
Taian Table
There won’t ever be a dish you dislike at this newly opened Michelin-starred restaurant. .An experience here feels like coming home – always a relief, even if you didn’t expect it – which is exactly as Chef Stefan Stiller intends, and it makes for an inarguably unique evening of dining. A monthly-changing 14-course menu ensures intrigue and surprise with each visit, and Stiller’s food is flawless.
Exact location provided on required reservation; taian-table.com.
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