SOiF materialized quietly at the end of 2019 on a somewhat unlikely stretch of Wuding Road. The tightly edited wine bar would feel at home anywhere from New York to Paris to Copenhagen. With physical travel now a distant dream, this tantalizing spiritual getaway is possibly just what I need.
[Shanghai] Taian Table – An Insider’s Perspective
There is no other restaurant in the world that I know as intimately as Taian Table. From that first encounter in 2016, two months into the restaurant’s life, through dozens of visits stretching over the next three years, Taian Table steadily grew to be my favorite restaurant in Shanghai. And if the past, entirely unexpected 17 months of working with the team have changed my view in any way, it is only to offer new perspectives and insights into this restaurant that I have loved from the first.