The first Hunan Bistro restaurant in Shanghai, and it is also the most expensive Hunan restaurant in Shanghai. It has won awards such as "Best Creative Restaurant" and "TimeOut Restaurant of the Year" at Olive Restaurant. The restaurant introduces the culture of European and American BISTRO to accompany food with wine, boldly uses Western wine with Chinese Hunan cuisine, and achieves the realm of merging Chinese and Western, coupled with the dining environment of a fashionable metropolis and high-quality dining service, which reflects the level of high-end restaurants. Aside from the production of dishes, the restaurant's environment and service level can be called one of the leaders of Hunan restaurants in Shanghai.
The restaurant focuses on fashionable fusion Hunan cuisine, although the spiciness has been reduced accordingly to suit the taste of the public, but the basic dishes have not departed from traditional Hunan cuisine. The restaurant's king fish head is served quickly, and the portion size of about 2 catties is moderate. Served with homemade noodles hand-beaten with minced fish, the taste is on the salty side. The whole dish is moderately spicy and acceptable to locals. However, in terms of overall performance, it is decent, and it is not competitive among the signature dishes of fish head in similar restaurants. There are 4 fairy cumin pork ribs, equipped with gloves for easy eating, the cumin fragrance is very strong, the pork ribs are fat and thin, crispy and fragrant, it is worth recommending. There are 16 skewered shrimp on a plate, which can be shared and eaten by many people, and the shrimp meat is relatively fresh and slightly spicy. The dry pot stinky tofu fat intestine is more distinctive, and the combination of stinky tofu and fat intestine is a heavy dish. When the food is served, it is steaming hot and smoky, and you can smell the strong aroma. The fat intestine is relatively clean, fat and juicy after marinating, the stinky tofu has a soft skin and a full inside. Generally, Hunan restaurants rarely provide pure green dishes, but in Shishi Xiangli, you can order fermented bean curd water spinach, which belongs to Cantonese cuisine. This home-cooked side dish on the Cantonese dinner table is made with fresh and tender green water spinach and stir-fried with simple flavor fermented bean curd for a while, you can enjoy the simple and fresh flavor.
The restaurant offers sweet drinks to relieve spicy food, and lychee cold drink and grapefruit-flavored Tieguanyin tea often appear in the set menu, which is a must-go choice. The taste of apple carrot ginger juice is slightly weird, so it is recommended that diners who don't like ginger taste should try it with caution. On the left side of the entrance is the restaurant's bar, which offers a variety of alcoholic beverages such as classic sparkling wine, champagne, classic cocktails, and wines, which are more flavorful when paired with Chinese food.
The restaurant is located on the 2nd floor of Rui Ou Department Store next to Jing'an Temple, with fully transparent floor-to-ceiling glass windows facing Jing'an Park, allowing diners to have a wide view and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the park. The fusion of Hunan cuisine Bistro makes the ten foods of Hunan deeply loved by foreigners, and it is common for foreign friends to eat Hunan cuisine with champagne, which is quite the atmosphere of a Western restaurant. The front desk greeter is a Russian lady, proficient in Chinese to accept reservations, warm and kind to guests, with professional service standards. The restaurant service staff mostly speak a Taiwanese accent, and they speak softly and softly. Uniform Western-style dress, professional waiter service in place, plus 10% service charge is also worth the money. Overall, the restaurant environment and service are excellent, Hunan cuisine is slightly inferior, and the price of the dishes is high, the average price of a la carte main dish is 80 yuan, the portion is not large, and the cost performance is low. The 10-food Hunan Bistro is suitable for diners who are looking for a comfortable dining environment and want to taste the flavor of Hunan cuisine, and if you want to pursue authentic Hunan flavors, you may want to check out other restaurants.