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Best Restaurants Open Late in Shanghai 2026
Open Late · Shanghai · 6 tables ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published September 18, 2024 · Updated June 21, 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
Paul Pairet keeps a late-night supper menu running to two in the morning at Mr & Mrs Bund, six floors above the Huangpu River, and that is only the polished end of how late this city eats. Below it sits a deep bench of hotpot halls cooking to 4am, 24-hour noodle counters and Hunan rooms that run past one. Locals rarely sit down before half past seven and the busiest hours stretch to ten, so the kitchens here are built to keep going. These six serve a real menu well past eleven, several to dawn, ranked on how late they cook, how good the food is and what you get for the yuan.
1.Mr & Mrs Bund
Paul Pairet's riverside brasserie runs a dedicated late-night supper menu to 2am Thursday to Saturday. Book it for the city's one genuinely glamorous late dinner.
Mr & Mrs Bund has been Paul Pairet's all-day French brasserie on the sixth floor of Bund 18, at 18 Zhongshan Dong Yi Road in Huangpu, since 2009, the Lyon-born chef's relaxed room beside his tasting-menu projects. Late is its signature: from Thursday to Saturday the kitchen drops a late-night supper menu and serves to 2am, with last orders at 22:30 the rest of the week. Order the Lemon & Lemon Tart, a whole candied lemon filled with sorbet, at ¥110, and the black cod or the truffle burger off the supper card. It is the one place in Shanghai to eat seriously well after midnight in a room facing the Pudong skyline. Reserve a window table and ask for the late menu when you book.
Book on the Mr & Mrs Bund site; ask for a window table and the late-night menu.
2.Loushang Hotpot
Cantonese seafood hotpot cooked to 4am every night, north of ¥300 a head. Go when you want the late pot done properly rather than cheaply.
Loushang is the upmarket end of Shanghai's late hotpot, a Cantonese-style room whose original sits at 46 Maoming Nan Lu in Huangpu and whose kitchen runs to 4am seven nights a week. The order is the golden chicken-soup broth with live king crab, geoduck and fresh prawns, a clear-stock contrast to the mala chains, at around ¥300 to ¥500 a head. It earned a place on the World's 50 Best Discovery list for exactly this: a refined late pot when the cheaper halls will not do. There is no celebrity chef here and the room does not pretend otherwise; the draw is the seafood and the hour. Pull a queue ticket on Dianping, busiest after midnight at weekends.
Queue ticket on Dianping; seafood hotpot to 4am on Maoming Nan Lu.
3.Haidilao Hot Pot
The benchmark late hotpot, 24 hours at the Beijing West Road branch around ¥150 to ¥250 a head. Pull a ticket for theatrical mala at any hour.
Haidilao, the Sichuan chain founded by Zhang Yong in 1994 and famous for its service, keeps its Beijing West Road branch at 1066 Beijing Xi Lu cooking 24 hours. The mala and tomato twin broths with hand-pulled noodles spun tableside are the order, at around ¥150 to ¥250 a head, with free snacks, drinks and a manicure while you queue. It is the reliable any-hour pot, theatrical and consistent at nine in the evening or four in the morning. Set up Alipay or WeChat Pay first and pull a queue ticket on the app, busiest after midnight at weekends.
Queue ticket on the Haidilao app; 24-hour hotpot on Beijing West Road.
4.Hakkasan
Glossy modern Cantonese on the Bund with the kitchen open to 1am on weekends. Book it for late Peking duck and a cocktail over the river.
Hakkasan returned to the fifth floor of Bund 18 in October 2020, the Shanghai outpost of the London dim-sum group, with Li Wei leading the kitchen since 2022. The Peking duck with caviar is the order, carved tableside at around ¥3,000 for the table, alongside the silver cod and the supreme dim sum. The kitchen runs to 00:30 Monday to Thursday and 1am Friday and Saturday, with a late-night menu and a DJ on weekends, so it doubles as a late dinner and a night out. This is the booking for a glossy, low-lit late meal over the river rather than a street-food crawl. Reserve a river-view table and ask about the weekend late menu.
Book on the Hakkasan site; river-view table and the weekend late menu.
5.Di Shui Dong
Spicy Hunan home cooking that runs to around 1am for about ¥90 a head. Climb the stairs for cumin ribs and cold beer after the bars.
Di Shui Dong has sent chilli smoke down Maoming Nan Lu since the early 2000s, a one-flight-up Hunan room at number 56 in the Former French Concession that Anthony Bourdain made famous and that still runs late, to around 1am. The cumin spare ribs, ziran paigu, are the order everyone comes for, fatty and heavily spiced, with dry-pot green beans and cold Tsingtao, a meal at around ¥89 a head. It is loud, cheap and exactly what you want after a night in the concession bars below it. There is no named chef and the room is plain; the cooking is the point. Walk in, or pull a ticket on Dianping at weekends.
Walk in; cumin ribs and beer to around 1am on Maoming Nan Lu.
6.Ding Te Le Zhou Mian Guan
A 24-hour, Michelin-listed noodle counter where a great bowl runs about ¥30. Slip in for scallion-oil noodles at any hour.
Ding Te Le Zhou Mian Guan is a plain 24-hour noodle-and-congee shop on Huaihai Road, listed in the MICHELIN Guide Shanghai for exactly the kind of cooking that needs no tablecloth. The scallion-oil noodles and the yellow-croaker noodles with pickled greens are the orders, with preserved-egg congee alongside, a bowl at around ¥25 to ¥40. It is the best cheap late food in the city and never closes, the restorative end of a night of hotpot and beer. There is no chef's name on the door; there is a wok, a clock that never stops and a queue at 3am. For a bowl in the small hours, slip in.
Walk in; noodles and congee 24 hours on Huaihai Road.
Not for a late dinner
Famous, but shut by dinner
Yang's Fry Dumplings. The celebrated shengjianbao, fried pork buns with a crisp base, are one of Shanghai's great cheap bites, but the branches shut by around 8 or 9pm. This is a daytime and early-evening snack, not a late kitchen. Eat them at lunch and keep this list for after dark.
Jia Jia Tang Bao. The famous xiaolongbao near People's Square draws queues all morning, but it sells out and closes in the afternoon, often by 5pm. It is among the best soup dumplings in the city and no use at all after midnight. Go early in the day, well before it runs out.
Booking a late table in Shanghai
Shanghai's late map runs from a glamorous brasserie on the Bund to a 24-hour noodle counter. For a proper late dinner, Mr & Mrs Bund and Hakkasan keep weekend kitchens open past midnight on the river and take reservations, so book a window table ahead. For the small hours, the hotpot halls run latest: Loushang to 4am every night and Haidilao around the clock, both of which queue late, so pull a ticket on Dianping before you arrive.
The value spread is wide, from a ¥30 bowl of scallion-oil noodles at Ding Te Le to a ¥3,000 Peking duck at Hakkasan, so pick by appetite and hour. Almost everything runs on Alipay or WeChat Pay and cash is increasingly awkward, so set that up first. The metro stops around 23:00, so plan on a Didi home once the kitchens are the only thing still open.
Frequently asked
Which Shanghai restaurant has the latest kitchen?
The hotpot halls and 24-hour counters run latest. Loushang on Maoming Nan Lu cooks to 4am every night, while Haidilao at 1066 Beijing Xi Lu and the noodle shop Ding Te Le on Huaihai Road never close at all. For a proper sit-down late dinner, Mr & Mrs Bund runs a supper menu to 2am Thursday to Saturday and Hakkasan to 1am on weekends, and the Hunan room Di Shui Dong runs to around 1am.
Where can I eat late in Shanghai on a budget?
The noodle shops are the value, with a bowl of scallion-oil or yellow-croaker noodles at the 24-hour Ding Te Le running around 25 to 40 yuan at any hour. The Hunan room Di Shui Dong runs about 89 yuan a head for cumin ribs and beer to around 1am. The seafood hotpot at Loushang, north of 300 yuan a head, and the Peking duck at Hakkasan are the splurge end of the same night.
Is there good late-night fine dining in Shanghai?
Yes. Mr & Mrs Bund, Paul Pairet's brasserie on the sixth floor of Bund 18, runs a dedicated late-night supper menu to 2am from Thursday to Saturday, and Hakkasan one floor below keeps its Cantonese kitchen open to 1am on weekends with a DJ. Both take reservations and both look over the river, so book a window table if a glamorous late dinner is the point.
Can I walk in for a late table in Shanghai?
For the noodles and the Hunan room, yes; Ding Te Le and Di Shui Dong are walk-in by nature, though Di Shui Dong queues at weekends. The hotpot halls, Loushang and Haidilao, queue late, so pull a ticket on Dianping before you go. For Mr & Mrs Bund and Hakkasan, reserve ahead. Set up Alipay or WeChat Pay first, since cash is awkward, and plan a Didi home once the metro stops around 23:00.
Do Shanghai kitchens close early?
No. Shanghai has one of the deepest late-night scenes anywhere, with hotpot halls cooking to 4am, 24-hour noodle counters, Hunan rooms running past one and a Bund brasserie serving supper to 2am. Only some celebrated early-day snack spots, such as Yang's Fry Dumplings and Jia Jia Tang Bao, close by evening or sell out in the afternoon, which is why this list is built around kitchens that genuinely cook past 23:00.
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