The 15 Best Places for Cocktails in Shanghai

Ike Song: Amazing speak easy in Shanghai! Delicious food and even more Delicious cocktail. Try their xmas special Eggnog

Pascha Bhatti: Amazing cocktails, high quality service and fantastic creations. Top!

Christian D.: Excellent cocktails and great atmosphere. One of the best cocktail bars I have ever been to, you should not miss it. Ask to get to the third floor. Even better cocktails and even nicer atmosphere.

Pascha Bhatti: Great bar, try their signature manhattan and negroni

Fin Sedgwick: Cocktails, staff, atmosphere - one of Shanghai's best bars

Jennifer Bin: Great cocktails and a very relaxed environment. Come during the week to miss the crowd

Ida Low: The barrel aged cocktails are must tries!!!!!!

Fin Sedgwick: Cocktails, atmosphere, food, chicken wings, donut holes, Yao

Andreas Reuther: Excellent cocktails and the barrel aged drinks are perfect stuff. Compared to El Ocho or Senator Saloon I somehow miss the vibe. Feels more like a restaurant somehow, not like a bar :-)

Paul Ark: Quiet, low key place that is great for cocktails and conversation. Great service. Not a huge stickler for dress code (wore a polo shirt, shirts, and topsiders without socks)

Leirda: Try the signature Waldorf cocktails; they are well-crafted and appropriately stiff!

Gomi Suppiah: Great cocktails and a fab jazz band! Beautiful hilton worldwide product !

Jeff T: Good food, nice cocktails, good atmosphere in a nice environment...especially during a warm summer night: so peacefully outside

(唐雷） -dhon godinez-: 32 Degree @ Barbarossa Terrace Best Place for Outdoor while ZiPping uR BeSt ChillEd MoJitO in TowN...

Guillaume Ssm: Good cocktail, good ambience, good music, a very elegant place to take a drink with friends in centre of Shanghai

Ed Barzilaij: If the kitchen has closed, don't go away! Just order the best cocktail you've ever enjoyed: the Thai Zeed. The recipe is a secret. So is the taste until you've tried it.

Harika Bilici: Great Yunnan food with delicious vegetarian options. Thaizeed is the best cocktail I ever had.

Nicolas Hxb: I strongly recommend their Thai Zeed, a great spicy cocktail!

Gilbert Zhao: One of the best Old Fashioned I've ever had!

Amber Zhao: Amazing vibe, décor and cocktails!

Jenkin A.: Great cocktails

Andreas Reuther: Fantastic new venue. I liked everything. Cocktails, wine, food - the Kama Tuna Jaw Bone OMG! More and more cool places in the west. 2 thumbs up!

Piero Pollio: Great concept , food is interesting as well as cocktails. Nice atmosphere

Chin Lee: Seafood, steak, cocktail

André: One of the best locations of Shanghai. Get in before 8 p.m. (entrance 100 RMB) to get a table near the window, order the VUE cocktail and enjoy the fantastic view.

Jason Nash: WOW Best Lychee Martini I have ever had...

Freesoul Y: Famous for the bund view and its amazing. But the bar is really popular that it's always difficult to find a place to stay up on the roof. Galaxy is a very beautiful cocktail. Girls don't miss it.

David William: great place good people the cocktails are made the real old fashioned way and they play jazz. A real drinking hole. cash only.

Momoko: Moscow Mule and Old Fashion here are legendary!

Time Out Shanghai: They offer studiously wrought classic cocktails (from 60RMB) and probably one of the city’s most evolved lists of whiskies and single malts in a consciously subdued, dependably hushed atmosphere. Read more.

Felix: Delicious Duke of Earl cocktail. 50 kuai at happy hour (ends 7pm)

Tim Barnard: Great atmosphere, first of it's kind scene in SH. Plus, a great cocktail selection.

Akil Cumberbatch: Oh how I've waited for a place like this in Shanghai! Great atmosphere, AMAZING food, fabulous cocktails, friendly staff, prompt service... Simply fabulous! Try the fries!

Andrew Leong: Try their martinis here...there are some concoctions not on the menu, ask the bartender.

Gino Cosme: Order the mojito. Best in Shanghai.

Paula PV: Stuuuuunning view. I order mojito as the recomedations bellow and I must say: Its a 10!

Paul Ark: The martini & all-you-can-eat steak sandwich happy hour is fantastic. Mon-Fri, 5-7 pm

Julian Sims: Happy hour cocktail & steak sandwich 38rmb + free wifi!

Natellie Sun: Friday martini's for rmb45 plus free star sandwiches 5-7pm

Isky Wsz: Amazing view! Take the Ak-47 cocktail, it's delicious

Ling Ye: Check out the afterwork menu from 6-10PM, Monday to Friday: Giant cocktails list priced at around 1,000RMB for each, signature cocktails starting from 40RMB and amazing packages of drinks and tapas!

Claire Slobodian: Come with a group for the happy hour (6.30-10.30pm daily) and get the humongous mojito, it'll fill about ten of you easy. Do not leave without eating the picnic chicken.

Elise Lee: Strongly recommend the Incredible Hulk cocktail!

Jia Li: New favorite cocktails. All tequila all the time. Third floor balcony is breezy.

Thibault Lemaitre: Great inexpensive cocktails, friendly atmosphere and nice Mexican food!