Midrange
Amokka
Coffee bar and restaurant good for lunch stops.
Secret Garden
Serving Cantonese food in pleasant surroundings. The veranda-like space near to Secret Garden has been home to a succession of restaurants, the latest incarnation being a Greek restaurant.
Shanghai Uncle
A famous chain of three restaurants known for Shanghai flair with some Western accents. Known for their spare ribs, smoked fish and fatty pork with garlic.
Uighur Restaurant
Claims to be the "original" Xinjiang cuisine restaurant in the city, and probably the best-known. The typical main dishes are moderately spicy preparations of lamb, but the menu also features some rather adventurous items like camel feet, sheep's eyeballs, and a bull's you-know-what. Also music and dance shows with the obligatory audience participation.
Di Shui Dong
Fiery cuisine from Hunan, the birthplace of Mao Zedong, thus a menu full of "Mao's Shrimp", "Mao's Chicken" and such. Very popular with foreigners.
Enoteca
Excellent wine bar specializing in Argentinean and South African wines. Food is fairly basic with cheese and meat plates and salads, but the wine is outstanding.
Foodrepublic Food Court
Food court of sorts housing many different restaurants. They do not accept cash most of them, the restaurants that have their own seating area separate take both cash and cards, so you will have to add money to and put down a deposit for a stored-value card specific to the other Foodrepublics. You can see plastic models of all the dishes before you order them, so you will have a decent idea of what you are getting. Copious MSG avoidable depending on what you're after; the CoCo Ichibanya is safe in this regard but delicious food.
Hailaogui
Cafe specialising in sweet Chinese desserts claimed to have all sorts of beneficial effects for your health, particularly dishes made with turtle. No English menu.
Top end
Casanova
Very competent Italian fare.
Otto
A sophisticated Italian restaurant and wine bar.
Shintori
Japanese design restaurant with stunning features. Serving traditional and fusion cuisine.
Mesa
Excellent and flavorful Western and fusion food accented by a fine wine list. The stunning view from the balcony is at its best in the spring and fall.
Vegetarian Lifestyle
A beautifully appointed modern restaurant where everything is vegetarian. You will not find much in the way of fake meat that pervades most of the other vegetarian places. Instead, you will enjoy beautifully cooked dishes from all over the country in addition to a juice bar.