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Restaurants
Few cities on earth can match Shanghai for its quality and variety of food. Excellent sit-down
meals of meat dumplings or soup noodles, with a pot of hot tea, can be had for handful of
loose change. Meanwhile at the high end, the world's top chefs have flocked to the city,
where they have opened elegant flagship venues that serve some of the most refined cuisine
on the planet. And in the affordable middle lies a rich treasure trove of regional Chinese
cuisines and Western selections from around the globe - many of them served in surprising
venues that could only be found in Shanghai.
Price for a two-course meal per person, with one drink:
$$$ = over RMB 250
$$ = RMB 100-250
$ = RMB 50-150
THE BUND
Capo
5/F, 77 Beijing East Road; tel: 5308 8332; $$$
Fashionable Neapolitan steakhouse by Naples-born, Shanghai-based chef Enzo Carbone.
The dining room, in the attic of a 1911 heritage building behind the Bund, is inspired by a ba-
silica, with its 'altar' reserved for two artisan wood-fired ovens turning out Neapolitan pizzas
and Capo's signature 600-day grain-fed organic Australian Wagyu steaks.
Colagreco
2/F, Three on the Bund, 17 Guangdong Road; tel: 5308 5396;
www.colagreco.asia
; $$$
Argentinian two Michelin-star chef Mauro Colagreco showcases delicate fine-dining creations
and Argentinian steaks in a polished, low-lit dining room looking out to the Bund and Pudong.
After dinner, party with Shanghai's social set at adjoining cocktail and live music lounge,
Unico (
www.unico.cn.com
).
El Willy
5/F, South Bund 22, 22 Zhongshan East No.2 Road; tel: 5404 5757;
www.el-willy.com
;
$$$
Infectiously cheerful Catalan chef 'Willy' Trullàs Moreno helms this popular Spanish restaur-
ant, which relocated from the French Concession to a beautiful heritage building on the
