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The 3 Michelin starred restaurant MAISON LAMELOISE from Burgundy in France just opened a new restaurant inside the Shanghai Tower

The original restaurant MAISON LAMELOISE started in France almost 100 years ago and it is awarded with three Michelin stars. So what can be expected from its new sister restaurant just opened lately inside the new Shanghai Tower? Well so different the location is, so similar the fine dining experience is. After leaving the elevator in the Shanghai Tower on the 68th floor, somewhere around 350 meter above the ground, just close your eyes for a second while entering the Shanghai MAISON LAMELOISE and you feel like approaching your table in the original MAISON LAMELOISE restaurant in Chagny France. 

Why we write that? Well the whole team in the MAISON LAMELOISE in Shanghai give you such a very very warm hearted welcome, they really make you feel like entering the original MAISON LAMELOISE restaurant in the village Chagny in the Burgundy. The executive chef Yann Klein from the Alsace welcomed us with a tour in his new kitchen inside the Shanghai tower and he explained us the details in German, English and Chinese language!!! The chef sommelier Maxime Duval and the general manager Aaron really took care for us like being regular guests since years, that really make you feel like home, an atmosphere you sometimes can get on smaller fine dining restaurant in villages like the original one in Chagny France. 

Also the atmosphere of the whole restaurant, how the other guests are dressed and not talking about the food – yes yes yes that is high end fine dining in the middle of the heart of Shanghai. The food 🙂 yes the courses which Yann Klein and his team creates, that again is just real fine dining at its best in the middle of Shanghai and that is what my wife and myself call French fine dining at its best. From the beginning to the desert that is what we call Michelin starred dining, we think the pictures are speaking for themselves. So the original MAISON LAMELOISE from Chagny really can be proud for its new younger sister in the Shanghai tower! My wife and myself we liked the evening so much, that we plan to be back at Christmas to celebrate a fine dining French Gourmet Christmas in the middle of Shanghai in the end of this year 😉

🍴SR

 

MAISON LAMELOISE SHANGHAI

www.lameloise.com.cn

Shanghai Tower 68/F

Yincheng Middle Rd

Pudong Shanghai

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The “JOURNEY” @ BO Shanghai Restaurant

A little bit hidden behind the Daimon Bistro at the Bund 5 is the fine-dining restaurant Bo Shanghai located. It’s the Shanghai restaurant from Chef Alvin Leung Hong Kong’s coolest 😉 three Michelin starred Chef and owner of the Bo Innovation restaurant in Hong Kong. The BO Shanghai restaurant brings East and West with its actual menu together. They call their actual tasting menu just „JOURNEY“. It’s a tasting through China, through the different provinces of China with all its specialities dish by dish in regards of spices an taste. It’s really a breathtaking journey through that tasting menu with so so many things to explore dish by dish, ingredient by ingredient and spice by spice. Anyhow I don’t wanna call it a „JOURNEY“ – Why?

Because what the Chef and his wife of the BO Shanghai created is not only a tasting menu „JOURNEY“ it’s a super creative exploration between East and West. It’s in a first step of course a „JOURNEY“ through China, but at the same time it’s a kind of reunion of East and West. It brings together Italy fine-dining with Chinese fine-dining! How they do that? Well the Chef and his wife stayed for a while in Italy and there they got influenced from Italian fine-dining and now they bring in the BO Shanghai restaurant the Italian and the Chinese fine-dining world together in a menu that is for sure world wide unique and fine-dining at its best!

The BO Shanghai restaurant is still kind of classic fine-dining, it’s a smaller super comfortable restaurant, not too big and not nosy like other (too many) Michelin stared restaurants in Shanghai, at the same time it’s a very contemporary kind of cool restaurant and team and it brings West and East on a very unique and interesting way together! Very well done BO Shanghai!!!!

Our resume after our two week fine-dining „JOURNEY“ through Shanghai: There are a lot of interesting Michelin restaurants to explore, for some the Michelin ratings were for us a bit surprising (to call it friendly 😉 ) and so far far away what you can expect if you’re experienced with classic European Michelin stared restaurants. Our top three in Shanghai when it comes to real fine-dining, to bring East & West on an interesting way together and to have a real Michelin stared “JOURNEY” are:

BO Shanghai
TAIAN Table
NAPA

So we keep the fingers crossed that the 2018 Michelin taster also will find that out and we can report in one year for additional Michelin Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️ for these three outstanding Shanghai fine-dining restaurants 😉

SR 🍴

BO Shanghai Restaurant
6/F, Bund 5, 5 Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu
中山东一路外滩5号6楼
Phone: +86 021 5383 3656

6/F, Bund 5, 5 Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu

中山东一路外滩5号6楼

Phone: +86 021 5383 3656

www.facebook.com/Bo-Shanghai

DA DONG RESTAURANT SHANGHAI

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The Da Dong Restaurant Shanghai

We visited the Da Dong Restaurant Shanghai, because lots of locals talking latley about it and there are looooong waiting lists and ques to finally get a tabke! Why? Well it is not so much because the restaurant has been rated two years in a row with one Michelin star. It is much more because the Da Dong Restaurant Shanghai is in Beijing since a long long time a have to visit restaurant and in Beijing it’s a kind of institution for the world famos Beijing duck dinner. A couple years ago the first Da Dong restaurant opened in Shanghai and because of its great Beijing reputation it became right from the opening completely overbooked and quite an impossible mission without long waiting getting a table. Another reason for the long waiting lists is that the Chef and owner of the Da Dong restaurants has reached celebrity status in China for his modern interpretations on Chinese cuisine, that is also documented with lots celebrity’s pictures visiting the Da Dong restaurant and the pictures are shown right at the entrance. Spanish president, Albert from Monaco and many more visited the Da Dong restaurant and all came only because of the Beijing duck?

For sure they did not! The Da Dong Restaurant is for sure not only an one Michelin star rated restaurant which is famous for its rosted duck. But then what is it? Well that is really not easy to explain, because so many things are different than you might expect it. It is for sure not a typical Micheln fine dining restaurant but on the other hand is also for sure not a typical Chinese restaurant! I have a gues, that this is exactly what the Chef and owner Dong Zhengxiang wanted to reach, he wanted his restaurants and its dishes to be different to normal mainstream! For that goal he perfectly accomplished because its starting with the menu book. Yes indeed it’s a book and it’s really a book, bigger and heavier than the London phone book, it shows nearly all dishes one by one in pctures in the original size! It has no tasting menus to chose, so you can feel free to set your own tasting menu in a very cool fine-dining environment.

All the dishes we tasted were absolutely perfect and yes of course there is also the legendary Da Dong rosted Beijing duck but so so so many more fine-dining dishes to explore, so we highly recommend to start ASAP your fine-dining exploration at the Da Dong Restaurant Shanghai because the waiting lists is still sooooo long 😉

🍴SR

Da Dong Restaurant Shanghai  No.1601 West Nanjing Road

5F Shanghai Park Place, Jing’an District
5/F, 1601 Nanjing Xi Lu,
near Changde Lu
南京西路1601号越洋广场5楼, 近常德路

www.dadongdadong.com/

TAIAN TABLE SHANGHAI

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The TAIAN TABLE restaurant in Shanghai went through a rough 2017 with changing its location but even through such a busy 2017 they kept it all. The TAIAN TABLE kept its perfection, kept its passion, kept its taste & quality and they kept their Michelin star. On their homepage taian-table.cn you can read about read the following about their idea about the restaurant:

Taian Table is the vision of Stefan Stiller

Stefan always wanted to open a small dining location with an open kitchen and a single, seasonal tasting menu only. To prepare what’s in season, inventing new dishes with the team, bringing like-minded people together and breaking the boundaries of traditional dining- that’s our vision and goal. Interactive and intimate dining.

Well what can we say? We had the great opportunity to dine the TAIAN TABLE Menu „The best Dishes out of 12 Menus“ and it was absolutely breathtaking. The super detailed and talented Chef de Cuisine Jeno Racz explained us that the TAIAN team changes month by month their table menu and we had the great opportunity to taste the best out of the 12 last menus. So check the pictures, we think they are speaking for themselves and we only can recommend you to take any chance to visit as soon as possible this breathtaking restaurant which entered for sure our top three list of our Shanghai most favorite restaurants!

Our special thanks to Jeno Racz for being such a great host, thanks for the great Brandy and can not wait for catch up with you about Shanghai, its unique fine-dining scene and your next menu 😉

SR🍴

For the detailed address of TAIAN TABLE SHANGHAI click here:

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BACK @ NAPA WINE BAR & KITCHEN SHANGHAI

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NAPA Restaurant and wine paradise

After starting almost one year ago our fine dining blog, one of the first restaurants we visited was the NAPPA WINE BAR & KITCHEN and my wife and me couldn’t wait to be back at that fantastic restaurant in Shanghai. Why? Well it’s starting with the building the restaurant is located in, it’s the Bund 22 and it’s a building from 1906 with a heritage architecture and then please take a look and seat inside the building and restaurant, it’s just absolutely breathtaking and there are worldwide not many similar restaurants.

But not only that is breathtaking, it’s just a year ago we have been in that restaurant but what in the last 12 months happened is quite impressive. Edward Lee one of Shanghai’s Masters in wine, with a wine cellar and a wine list I never saw and experienced somewhere else in Asia. Edward is also the restaurant manager and he together with Francisco Araya, who was trained and educated in world famous restaurants like the El Bulli, these two guys together with their team improved heavily. Edward and Francisco created a gourmet experience tasting menu together with a pairing gourmet wine menu, which is really a high end fine dining class for its own. The restaurant is now in the 2018 Michelin Guide recommended and if you ask us, it’s only a short question of time when we will be back at the NAPPA to celebrate with Edward and Francisco their first Michel star ⭐️ and like always we can not wait for this 😉

SR🍴

NAPA WINE BAR & KITCHEN South Bund 22, Zhongshan Dong Er Lu, (near Xin Yong An Lu)

上海市中山东二路22号2楼近新永安路

Shanghai, CHINA

napawinebarandkitchen.com

Telephone 021 6318 0057

T’ANG COURT SHANGHAI

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The T’ang Court restaurant has been awarded with three Michelin Stars in the first official Chinese Shanghai appearance of the 2017 Michelin Guide and it repeated the three star rating in 2018. At the moment it is the only Chinese restaurant in Mainland China with such a rating in the Michelin Guide. The T’ang Court restaurant offers a unique dining experience and it is different to what we were used from European fine-dining. In a couple ratings and feedbacks for the restaurant you can read from people complaining that this fine–dining restaurant is not really a three star restaurant. We don’t agree with these opinions because the T’ang Court restaurant is something very special, it’s Chinese fine–dining with its own Chinese soul and spirit! We liked that very much and its for sure not a copy of Western fine–dining dishes and restaurants, like you can find it in so many big European cities or even in Hongkong. So yes it’s definitely not a European three star Michelin restaurant but it’s a fantastic unique Chinese fine-dining restaurant with three Michelin stars what is absolutely unique at the moment in the whole world, so better try it, as long it is so seldom and fantastic!

Thanks for that fantastic Chinese fine-dining experience and the super great and friendly service, we’ll be back soon 😉

SR 🍴

T’ang Court Restaurant
99 Madang Road,
Xintiandi, Shanghai 200021, China
tlshx.info@langhamhotels.com
the-langham/shanghai/dining/tang-court/

JIN XUAN CHINESE RESTAURANT SHANGHAI

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The Jin Xuan Chinese Restaurant is inside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Shanghai Pudong. It has earned in 2017 its first Michelin Star. The restaurant is located on 53rd floor in the Hotel and it has a spectacular view but much more important is that the Jin Xuan Chinese Restaurant has a same spectacular Chinese cuisine and it delivers breathtaking dishes. Furthermore it has such a super perfect and outstanding friendly service that you not only feel welcomed in that restaurant, you feel from the first second like home! This fine dining Chinese Restaurant, designed by Steve Leung from Hong Kong, is really a beautiful fine dining place and highly recommend from me to visit and spend an evening there. The Chef Daniel Wong and his team are doing a really fantastic job in their restaurant, thanks for that very special Chinese fine dining experience!

 

Jin Xuan Chinese Restaurant inside The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai Pudong.

Shanghai IFC, 8 Century Avenue, Lujiazui,

Pudong Shanghai, 200120 China

+86 21 20201717 or restaurantrsvn.pudong@ritzcarlton.com

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