Shanghai · China
The best Italian restaurants in Shanghai
Our Shanghai list ranks 10 Italian restaurants, each named by between two and eight independent published guides and ordered here by Google rating weighted for review volume. Mercato by Jean-Georges leads them at 4.6 from 104 Google reviews, in Huangpu (Three on the Bund) — #14 of 101 in Shanghai. The commonest style descriptors we hold on them are Hotel Italian fine dining, Italian deli-trattoria, Italian fine dining (1-star), among others.
Read this ranking as a visitor's shortlist. Google is blocked in mainland China, so the review counts below come almost entirely from foreign visitors and are very small. The guides that qualified these restaurants are Chinese and reliable; the numbers that order them are not a verdict from Shanghai's own diners. Why we still publish it.
Shanghai qualifies on two guides, not three. Its ranking platforms resist automated reading, so agreement between three guides we can actually read is structurally rarer here. Everything after that step — the formula, the weighting, the check date — is identical to every other city. The full reasoning.
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1
Mercato by Jean-Georges
104 reviewsscore 4.50 -
2
Alimentari Grande
74 reviewsscore 4.50 -
3
Goodfellas
149 reviewsscore 4.48 -
4
Il Ristorante Niko Romito
10 reviewsscore 4.48 -
5
Da Vittorio Shanghai
30 reviewsscore 4.48 -
6
La Scala
1 reviewscore 4.48 -
7
D.O.C Gastronomia Italiana
7 reviewsscore 4.47 -
8
8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo BOMBANA
43 reviewsscore 4.47 -
9
Bottega (意库)
71 reviewsscore 4.46 -
10
Bella Napoli
233 reviewsscore 4.45
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2 more Shanghai restaurants filed under Italian have no Google listing we could match with confidence, so they carry no rating and are not ranked here. They are on the Shanghai list, at the bottom.
Every restaurant here qualified on published guides and was ordered by its Google rating, weighted for review volume. The method, in full. No restaurant paid to appear.