Chinese Restaurant with Spectacular View and Good Food

Stir Fried Rice Cake With Crab

Riviera Songhelou Restaurant

Must-Have	Baby (<1 yo), Toddler (1-3yo)
Air-conditioned	✓
Space for baby stroller	✓
No steps/ staircase	✓
Baby high chair	✓
Quick service	✓
Not crowded	✓

Private Room

Riviera Songhelou Restaurant is a three-storey building at the waterfront of The Bund. There are 100 seats available including 8 private rooms and 60 seats in the terrace at the open rooftop. Private rooms are huge and spacious with beautiful view of The Bund. They only add 10% service charge for private room. Service is tremendously good because waiters are attentive and polite. They can communicate in English and Mandarin. 

Private Room

Apparently, I booked a table for two persons via online. When we reached there, one waitress said that no reservation was found in their record and all seats at ground floor were occupied. However, another waitress came by and brought us to a private room upstair. She recommended us to try their signature lobster and nice wine. Although we were not interested with her recommendations, she smiled and didn't persist. 

Private Room With Great View

The dining table can feet 10 persons, which was decorated with a bouquet of fresh flowers in the middle. We sat facing the floor to ceiling window. Night view of HuangPu River, boats and skyscraper was very beautiful and made our dinner so romantic. We were very hungry after a long walk along a mile-long stretch of promenade. Thus, we ordered a lot of dishes. The food menu was printed in both Chinese and English with photographs for all dishes. 

Stir Fried Assorted Colourful Vegetables

Vegetables are supposed to taste bland. However, Riviera's stir fried assorted vegetables were colourful and very appetising. Snow peas, shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, carrots, shimeji mushrooms and bamboo shoots made a perfect combination. It was packed with so much flavour. Snow peas were fresh and crunchy. This dish was delightful sweet and gingery. 

Signature Suzhou Soup Noodle

Riviera Songhelou Restaurant is famous for it's delicious Suzhou soup noodles. It was topped with finely chopped spring onions, sliced shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots. Soup was dark and flavourful. It was clear and not oily. Taste was good, pungent and tangy. The noodle was fine and long, tenacious and refreshing. Delicious soup matched well with Suzhou noodle. Its consistency was perfect, neither mushy nor hard. It can be counted one by one; what’s more, the noodle must be made on the same day.

Stir Fried Rice Cake With Crab

Stir fried Shanghai rice cakes with fried egg, cabbage and crab was very delicious in savoury Asian soy based sauce. Riviera's stir fried rice cakes were slightly crispy outside. Crab meat, cabbages and egg complemented well with rice cakes. Shanghai rice cakes are often served during Chinese New Year because it’s deemed to bring good luck and fortune. Nian Gao is direct translated as “higher year,” which symoolizes prosperity in the new year. These stir fried Shanghai rice cakes are Asians' all-time favourite food. If you’ve never had stir fried rice cakes, they’re wonderfully soft, chewy and are great at absorbing sauces when they’re stir fried.

Fried Rice With Foie Gras

Golden brown fried rice with foie gras was served in a hot stone bowl. When the waitress brought this dish to our big round table, smell was amazing. Good food and smell inextricably bound to one another. Fried rice was moist, aromatic and rich in flavour. I was addicted to it after first bite! Fried rice, fine spring onions, chopped onions and fluffy fried eggs paired very well with the saltiness of foie gras. The surface of the foie gras was crisp and refreshing. The inside was soft, oily and melty. It was absolutely the best to eat with fried rice. Food was not even delish but presentable and appealing.

 

Private Room With Great View

After a wonderful dinner, we rested at the coffee table by the window to enjoy the breathtaking night view of The Bund. In fact, we spent almost 2 hours for our dinner. They didn't rush us to pay the bill and leave the private room. It was the best Chinese cuisine I had ever tried. 

Terrace Of Riviera Songhelou Restaurant

Before we left, a kind waiter showed us the way up to the rooftop via a lift. We stayed at the open rooftop for a short while to see the night view at different angle. However, we were not required to order drinks to sit there. Terrace was empty and I guessed it was too cold to stay in an open space. 

Terrace Of Riviera Songhelou Restaurant

Food are delectable and presentable. They have a wide variety of choices and unique that I can't find elsewhere. Food is served warm and has enough portion, very value for money. Ambience was excellent and I hoped I could visit Riviera Songhelou restaurant again. Riviera has two branches at Suzhou and Tokyo. If you intend to dine in this restaurant, please open this LINK for updated food menu. 

Location

No.505, Zhong Shan Dong Er Road, 

Huang Pu District, 

Shanghai, 

China 200010

(Close to Xin Kai He Road)

Tel: 021 3331 3777