Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Another view of entrance

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes – Shanghai, China

Since I am at Shanghai, I can’t help but to try as many Shanghainese Restaurant as I can on each trip. Previously, I tried Maggie’s RestaurantMaison de L’huiWei Jing Ge Restaurant and Whampoa Club. On this recent trip in April, first I tried Home’s Private Restaurant. Followed by Grape Restaurant 葡萄园 with a group of colleague since this restaurant was round the corner of the office.

 

When we arrived at the restaurant, first floor was full. We got to go up to the second floor with only 2 private rooms left. Fortunately, we came slightly earlier, otherwise, these are gone too.

 

Grape Garden Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Entrance

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Interior

 

Exterior reflected vintage while interior was modern with an European touch. 

 

My colleague who have been to the restaurant recommended the Lotus Root with Glutinous Rice Stuffing as she loves it. Well braised lotus roots that absorbed the essence with glutinous rice stuffed in the gap. Taste-wise was lightly sweet.

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Lotus Root with Glutinous Rice Stuffing

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Glass Noodle

 

Lightly spicy Stir-fried Glass Noodle was well-received by our French colleagues. Personally, I find the dish wasn’t unique except for salty flavour.

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Crispy Duck Skin with condiments

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Crispy Duck Skin

 

Despite it isn’t fame for Peking Roast Duck, we order the Roast Duck Skin for our French colleagues to try. Disappointingly, they weren’t brave to try. The skin wasn’t as crispy though it has a good amount of fats on it. The sweet dark sauce was decent.

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Braised Beef

 

Glistening reddish appetising looking Braised Beef was not up to our expectation. Taste almost like the beef jerky didn’t impress anyone of us.

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Sweet Sour Pork

 

Sweet and Sour Pork, a familiar dish to Singaporean. The Shanghainese version is very much alike.

 

Spinach was fresh with enough of salt added hence it was tasty.

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Spinach

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Green with thick soup

 

Next was a Green in thick soup with mushroom and shrimps. A flavourful dish due to the soup.

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Glutinious Rice ball with Sesame Paste in Rice Wine Soup

 

Grape Restaurant At Xinle Road Serving Home-styled Shanghainese Dishes - Deep-fried Glutinious Rice Ball with Red Bean Paste

 

We ended our meal with 2 desserts; both are Glutinous Rice Ball, one deep fried with red bean paste and there was orange flavour in it. While the second was the small balls with sesame paste in wine sweet soup lacking if the wine fragrance and was a little too syrupy. Each has its own fan.

 

 

NAHMJ Verdict

 

Grape Restaurant 葡萄园 serves home-styled dishes though it wasn’t as impressive as some Shanghainese restaurant that I tried, it is good enough for a meal.

 

 

 

 

Grape Restaurant 葡萄园

55 Xinle Rd, Xuhui Qu, Shanghai Shi, China, 200000
新乐路55号(近襄阳北路)
Tel: +86 21 5404 0486

 

Opening Hours

 

Daily  1100 to 2200

 

Getting There

 

By Subway:

Shaanxi South Road – Line 1, 10 and 12

 

Rating: 6.5/10