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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 71 bars
Best bars in Shanghai
The 10 most notable bars in Shanghai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Revolucion Cocktail Shanghai
98 Yanping Rd 延平路98号
490 m from Wuding Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.443, percentile 100 of 71
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2
Abbey Road Shanghai
3 Taojiang Road since 2007
469 m from Changshu Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.441, percentile 98.57 of 71
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3
Senator Saloon
98 Wuyuan Rd
380 m from Changshu Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.436, percentile 97.14 of 71
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4
ROOF 325 Rooftop Restaurant & Bar
5F, 325 Nanjing Xi Lu
440 m from People's Square station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.430, percentile 95.71 of 71
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5
Punch Room Shanghai
28/F 199 Nanjing E Rd
168 m from East Nanjing Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.430, percentile 94.29 of 71
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6
Zapfler Shanghai
158 Julu Road 巨鹿路158号
381 m from Middle Huaihai Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.426, percentile 92.86 of 71
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7
The House of Roosevelt
地址：中山东一路27号罗斯福公馆9楼
629 m from East Nanjing Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.396, percentile 91.43 of 71
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8
The Refinery Gastro Bar
181 Taicang Road 太仓路181号
283 m from Site of the First CPC National Congress·South Huangpi Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.381, percentile 90 of 71
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9
Jade on 36 Bar
富城路33号浦东香格里拉大酒店
215 m from Lujiazui station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.355, percentile 88.57 of 71
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10
Cellar To Table
Donghu Road No. 20, Room 1A
368 m from South Shaanxi Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.340, percentile 87.14 of 71
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).