This might not be the easiest restaurant in the world to find but when you do you are stepping into a little bit of Shanghai culture and history. The building, tucked away among a group of long tong (narrow alleyways), was originally a flourmill that was converted into a clothes factory back in 1949.
This is a little hidden restaurant that is cozy and simple, they also have a bar where you can eat and drink. It’s an open kitchen so you can see them make your dinner. It’s a great place to take a date for dinner. It’s not a place to go with a big group. Even if they put the tables together, they don’t have that many tables.
Eating at a Korean barbeque restaurant is always a lot of fun. At this restaurant you can have either one. Each table has a ventilated hood over a cavity in the middle where briquettes are placed and covered by a grill. Diners order raw entrees, vegetables and various side dishes called Banchan and get to cook them right at their own table.
In the heat of a typically scorching Shanghai Saturday, food lovers and local media gathered at The Chinoise Story for Best Food In China's summer cooking show, its second event of the year. Event host, award-winning The Chinoise Story, is a stylishly elegant restaurant in the Old Jinjiang Hotel compound, specializing in modern Shanghainese fare.
Down a lane to the side of the Pearl Craft Market just past the Hong Mei Road pedestrian street lies ZAZA Cafe and Nail Spa.
Outside there is a nice decking area and inside, on the ground floor, there is a small chic café serving California style cuisine in a nice relaxed atmosphere and upstairs there is a nail spa.