Somewhere to eat as well as drink: the Shanghai bars where the food is as good as the drinks.
Last checked 14 November 2026. No bar paid to be included.
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Multi-concept bar
No. 39, The World's 50 Best Bars 2021
SG Group's coffee bar, cocktail bar and izakaya, now in INS near Fuxing Park. Low-alcohol drinks downstairs and a livelier upstairs around Tipsy. It peaked at No. 5 in Asia and No. 39 in the world in 2021.
📍 INS, near Fuxing Park, Huangpu, Shanghai
American cocktail bar
Founded by champion bartender Yao Lu, an unpretentious bar honouring the golden age of American cocktails, with seasonal specials and the signature Shanghai Breakfast. A regular on Asia's 50 Best Bars lists. It has moved from Fenyang Road to Hengshan Road.
📍 306 Hengshan Road, Xuhui, Shanghai
🕒 Daily 6pm to 2am (OpenStreetMap; check before you go)
Cocktail bar
A bomb-shelter themed bar inside Green and Safe in Xintiandi, using sustainable local ingredients. The best-selling Pear Tekken comes in a magnifying-glass vessel.
📍 2F, 22 Beili, Xintiandi, Lane 181 Taicang Road, Huangpu, Shanghai
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This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run Cocktail Week, the ten-day cocktail festival held town by town across the UK and Ireland. Since 2022 we have taken it to more than 20 towns and cities and worked with hundreds of bars. We put this guide together from our own research, Asia's 50 Best Bars results and trusted local guides.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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