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The best local restaurants in Shanghai

Our Shanghai list ranks 35 local Shanghai restaurants, each named by between two and five independent published guides and ordered here by Google rating weighted for review volume. Lai Lai Xiao Long (莱莱小笼) leads them at 4.4 from 486 Google reviews, in Huangpu (Tianjin Rd) — #62 of 101 in Shanghai. The commonest style descriptors we hold on them are Benbang, Benbang home-style, Benbang fine dining, among others.

35 ranked named by 2–5 guides each ordered by rating × review volume checked 24 August 2026 How this is built

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.

  1. 1

    Lai Lai Xiao Long (莱莱小笼)

    Huangpu (Tianjin Rd)2 guides#62 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 5486 reviewsscore 4.29
  2. 2

    Cheng Long Hang Crab Palace (成隆行蟹王府)

    Huangpu (Jiujiang Rd)2 guides#76 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 5328 reviewsscore 4.27
  3. 3

    San Ma Lu (三玛璐酒家)

    Huangpu (Nanjing Rd E)2 guides#79 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.6 out of 558 reviewsscore 4.23
  4. 4
    Fu 1088 (福1088)

    Fu 1088 (福1088)

    Changning (Zhenning Rd)2 guides#80 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 589 reviewsscore 4.22
  5. 5

    Old Jesse (老吉士酒家)

    Xuhui (Tianping Rd)3 guides#81 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.7 out of 532 reviewsscore 4.21
  6. 6

    Da Hu Chun (大壶春)

    Huangpu (Sichuan M Rd)3 guides#82 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.3 out of 5174 reviewsscore 4.21
  7. 7

    Hai Jin Zi (海金滋)

    Huangpu (Jinxian Rd)2 guides#83 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.6 out of 517 reviewsscore 4.20
  8. 8

    Ren He Guan (人和馆)

    Xuhui (Zhaojiabang)2 guides#84 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.3 out of 552 reviewsscore 4.19
  9. 9

    Wu You Xian (屋有鲜)

    2 guides#85 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 525 reviewsscore 4.19
  10. 10

    Lao Xing Xian (老兴鲜)

    Huangpu (Huaihai M Rd)2 guides#86 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.6 out of 512 reviewsscore 4.19
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    Maodou Ayi (毛豆阿姨酒家)

    Xuhui (Changshu Rd)2 guides#87 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 519 reviewsscore 4.19
  12. 12

    Rong Xiao Guan (荣小馆, Andaz)

    Huangpu (Xintiandi)2 guides#88 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 519 reviewsscore 4.19
  13. 13

    Wei Xiang Zhai (味香斋)

    Huangpu (Yandang Rd)2 guides#89 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.2 out of 5385 reviewsscore 4.19
  14. 14
    Fu 1015 (福1015)

    Fu 1015 (福1015)

    Changning (Yuyuan Rd)4 guides#90 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 513 reviewsscore 4.19
  15. 15

    Rui Fu Yuan (瑞福园)

    Huangpu (Jinxian Rd)2 guides#92 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.3 out of 513 reviewsscore 4.19
  16. 16

    Zhou She (周舍)

    Minhang2 guides#93 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 55 reviewsscore 4.18
  17. 17

    Da Long Soup Dumplings (大龙汤包)

    Hongkou3 guides#94 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 5.0 out of 51 reviewscore 4.18
  18. 18

    Wan Shou Zhai (万寿斋)

    Hongkou (Sichuan N Rd)2 guides#95 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 5.0 out of 51 reviewscore 4.18
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    Wo Jia Restaurant (我家餐厅)

    Jing'an (Huashan Rd)2 guides#96 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.2 out of 533 reviewsscore 4.18
  20. 20

    Cui Ting Jiu Jia (翠亭酒家)

    Huangpu (Shanxi S Rd)2 guides#97 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.2 out of 513 reviewsscore 4.18
  21. 21

    Rong Fu Yan (荣府宴)

    Huangpu (Bund area)3 guides#98 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.2 out of 56 reviewsscore 4.18
  22. 22

    Lao Ren He (老人和饭店)

    Huangpu (Huaihai M Rd)2 guides#99 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.0 out of 51 reviewscore 4.18
  23. 23

    Lao Di Fang Noodles (老地方面馆)

    3 guides#100 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 3.0 out of 51 reviewscore 4.18
  24. 24

    Sanlin Benbang Guan (三林本帮馆)

    Pudong (Zhonglin St)2 guides#101 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 3.7 out of 53 reviewsscore 4.18
  25. 25

    YongFoo Elite (雍福会)

    Xuhui (Yongfu Rd)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.1 out of 543 reviewsscore 4.18
  26. 26

    Maggie 5 (西郊5号)

    Changning (Hongqiao/Xijiao)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 3.5 out of 56 reviewsscore 4.17
  27. 27

    Lanxin (兰心餐厅)

    Huangpu (Jinxian Rd)5 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.1 out of 570 reviewsscore 4.17
  28. 28

    Lao Zheng Xing (老正兴菜馆)

    Huangpu (Fuzhou Rd)4 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.1 out of 572 reviewsscore 4.17
  29. 29

    Shanghai Lao Fandian (上海老饭店)

    Huangpu (Yu Garden)3 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.1 out of 5109 reviewsscore 4.17
  30. 30

    Lan Ting Restaurant (兰亭餐厅)

    Huangpu (Xizang M Rd)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 3.8 out of 524 reviewsscore 4.17
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    Paul Restaurant (保罗酒楼)

    Jing'an (Fumin Rd)3 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.0 out of 592 reviewsscore 4.15
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    Lu Bo Lang (绿波廊)

    Huangpu (Yu Garden)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.0 out of 5155 reviewsscore 4.14
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    Mao Long Restaurant (茂隆餐厅)

    Huangpu (Jinxian Rd)3 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 3.0 out of 523 reviewsscore 4.13
  34. 34

    De Xing Guan (德兴馆)

    Huangpu (Guangdong Rd)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 3.8 out of 595 reviewsscore 4.12
  35. 35

    Nanxiang Steamed Bun (南翔馒头店)

    Huangpu (Yu Garden)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 3.8 out of 5716 reviewsscore 3.96

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6 more Shanghai restaurants filed under Shanghai local 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.

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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.