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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 30 cafes
Best cafes in Shanghai
The 10 most notable cafes 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
Sunflour, Shanghai
308 Anfu Rd
672 m from Shanghai Library station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.511, percentile 100 of 30
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2
Chez Shibata Shanghai 柴田西点
紫云西路24号
518 m from Loushanguan 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 2.450, percentile 96.55 of 30
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3
Peet’s Coffee
9 Donghu Rd 东湖路9号
428 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 2.409, percentile 93.1 of 30
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4
Thought for Food (Thought for Food 意膳坊)
357 Jianguo W Rd 建国西路357号
508 m from Jiashan Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.361, percentile 89.66 of 30
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5
VICTOR'S CAFE
20NanjingRoadEast
554 m from East Nanjing Road station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.322, percentile 86.21 of 30
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6
La Pétanque - Shanghai
139 Tai'an Lu, near Huashan Lu 泰安路139号, 近华山路
320 m from Jiao Tong University station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.229, percentile 82.76 of 30
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7
OPS CAFE
177 Taiyuan Rd 太原路177弄
636 m from Jiashan Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.214, percentile 79.31 of 30
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8
Marienbad Cafe'
55 Wukang Rd
680 m from Shanghai Library station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.154, percentile 75.86 of 30
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9
Wagas
1018 Changning Rd 长宁路1018号
249 m from Zhongshan Park Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.105, percentile 72.41 of 30
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10
Sober Company
F106-107, F201-202, No.109 Yandang Road 雁荡路109号1楼 F106-107室，2楼F201-202室
492 m from Site of the First CPC National Congress·South Huangpi Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.006, percentile 68.97 of 30
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).