Shanghai’s Best Cafés: 10 to Know - Ninzin

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Shanghai’s Best Cafés: 10 to Know

Shanghai drinks more specialty coffee than any city in China. These ten rooms are where it’s at its best.

In a decade Shanghai has gone from tea house to one of Asia’s most serious coffee cities. The competition is fierce, the roasting is excellent, and the rooms are half the reason to go.

We narrowed a long list to ten — a mix of pioneers, lane-house newcomers and design-led flagships, spread across the former French Concession, Jing’an and the creek.