Times flies when you are having fun! Last weekend I have discovered some new places in Shanghai. More than 4 years in Shanghai and still you find some new places you have never been before. Saturday an American friend of mine was in town again and we decided to gather together with a group of friends. We started at the Thai house, which was a restaurant inside a Chinese compound. It was not really a restaurant, but just some tables inside a residential apartment building. It felt like eating at home, but then with many people around you. The place was pact! My question was; how do people find this place?
After a good Thai dinner we went for some wine. Winebars has been popping out in Shanghai for the last 2 years. The first year I lived in Shanghai, not one winebar could be found in the city. Even getting some nice bottles of wines was difficult. Nowadays, having a winebars in Shanghai is challenging and in almost every convenient store you can find some OK foreign brand wines for about 80RMB ( which is cheap for China). The place we went is called Cuvee, tucked away in a small alley of Kang Ding Road. This place is a new urban development project in Jing'an, transformed from an old Church. The moment you get inside the alley, you can't imagine you are in China. With an Belgian Bar and another lounge bar Exit next to the winebar, this alley is a new gathering place for winelovers in town.