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27 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 27 of them.
Suzhou13
The walled town holds most of these. Songhelou stands on Taijian Lane beside Xuanmiao Temple, Guanqian Street runs past both, and Wan Taixing sits south on Shiquan Street.
Shanghai12
The Bund and the Huangpu blocks behind it. The Long Bar sits inside the Waldorf Astoria on Zhongshan Road, the dumpling counters run through the middle on Ningbo, Tianjin and Huanghe Roads, and Lu Bo Lang and Nanxiang face each other inside Yuyuan Garden.
Beijing1
Beijing Da Dong roasts its duck on Jinbao Street, five floors up in Dongcheng.
Around Suzhou1
One address sits up the delta at Changzhou, where a tea wholesaler keeps a warehouse in Wujin District.