You know all those restaurants you've always wanted to try but can't afford? Well, now's your chance. The tenth edition of Shanghai Restaurant Week is coming, the time of year when you can snag awesome deals at some of the city's best joints. From March 2-12, participating restaurants will have set lunch and dinner menus where you can sample a selection of their bites for super stellar prices. That's 11 days of nom nom nom.
Booking officially opens up tomorrow (Friday 24), but we've got a special pre-booking code with DiningCity so that you can get in there a day early and start reserving those coveted tables.
All of the week's specially crafted menus have multiple courses, with lunch deals priced at 68, 108 and 138RMB and dinners at 108, 188 and 278RMB per person. We've been checking out what's on offer, and here are eight of our favourites deals around town (all prices per person).
How to register
Click 'read more' at the bottom of this post to reach the pre-booking page and use password timeoutrw to register today, because tomorrow starts the city-wide free-for-all! Now's your chance to try these specially crafted menus at prices you can't beat.
Too much choice? Check out our top 5 picks for this edition of Restaurant Week below.
Pelikan
3-course lunch, 138RMB; 3-course dinner, 278RMB
Highlights Fresh cucumber with oyster cream and burnt leeks; Nordic barley risotto with slow braised beef cheek and mushrooms; condensed milk ice cream with vanilla meringue and coffee sauce.
SABOR by Diego Guerrero
5-course dinner, 278RMB.
Highlights Onion foie gras; fried octopus Gyotaku; black tenderloin with black potato and fake chilli.
ElEfante
4-course lunch, 138RMB; sharing style tapas dinner, 278RMB.
Highlights Veal carpaccio; 'Gin and tonic'-cured salmon explosion; 72 percent chocolate bar with crumble, butterscotch, almond brittle and salted caramel ice cream.
Light & Salt
3-course lunch, 138RMB; 4-course dinner, 278RMB.
Highlights Beef tongue carpaccio; sea bass risotto with chorizo and orange fennel; seared duck breast with le puy green lentils, cumin carrot puree, cabbage, orange reduction and fig jam.
D.O.C. Gastronomia Italiana
3-course lunch, 138RMB; 3-course dinner, 278RMB.
Highlights Rocket, pear and truffle honey with pecorino; house-made pappardelle pasta with slow braised tomato and hormone-free Uruguayan oxtail ragù; flourless Zabaione and Valrhona 70 percent chocolate cake with clotted cream.
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