Ling Long

Shanghai, China

• Accolades
• No.9 Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026
• No.27 Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2025

Set at the heart of the iconic Bund waterfront district within the Shanghai Waldorf Astoria (formerly the Shanghai Club, which served foreign elites in the 1920s and 30s), Ling Long pays homage to regional Chinese cuisine with an air of playfulness. The menu explores Chinese flavours through three guiding ideas – xian (umami), regional heritage and tradition – reinterpreted through the lens of contemporary fine dining. Tasting menus unfold like a cross-country voyage, with dishes varying from classics such as smoked drunken prawns in Shaoxing wine to reinterpretations of home cooking, such as stir-fried beef in oyster sauce with grilled leek, finished with pickled radish. Courses are complemented by a thoughtful selection of teas, wines, lambic beers and Chinese spirits. There may be white tablecloths, avant-garde Chinese art-decorated walls in crimson and onyx hues and gloved service, yet Ling Long diverges from the modern Chinese fine-dining trend in that the meal follows a whimsical path, leading guests further down the (white) rabbit hole. The level of tongue-in-cheek eccentricities build throughout, resulting in each course more imaginative than the last.

Key Information

• Tasting menu from $244
• Lunch and dinner: Mon – Sun

Location

57 Shanxi Rd (S), Lu Wan Qu, Shanghai, 200041