A quick guide to Shanghai’s top nightlife spots, from rooftop bars to live music venues.

a well‑loved foreign‑owned sports‑bar‑style restaurant in Shanghai

A rooftop jewel where Huangpu River bends for your cocktail, blending 1920s Art Deco glamour with molecular mixology

A time capsule of 1920s European villas where jazz-age diplomats once clinked martini glasses, now repurposed as champagne bars and literary salons

A Moorish daydream nestled in People's Park, where hookah smoke curls around stained-glass lanterns