Spago in Shanghai: When California Cuisine Comes to the Bund

by Yumi Liu

Spago Shanghai
21F, The St. Regis on the Bund, Shanghai
No. 538 Zhongshan Dong Er Road

Huangpu District, Shanghai
Tel. +86 21 5368 8889

The dishes

Roasted Mushrooms Pizza

Sweet Corn Agnolotti

Classic Pork Wiener Schnitzel

Pan-Roasted Half Chicken

Lobster Cobb Salad

Spago occupies the 21st floor of The St. Regis on the Bund and is Wolfgang Puck’s first restaurant in China. With a terrace, bar and private dining rooms, it is not simply a hotel restaurant for guests. It is an independent dining space aimed at business entertaining, social occasions and visitors to Shanghai.

From an Innovative Los Angeles Restaurant to an Established International Brand

Wolfgang Puck, born in Austria and trained in French kitchens, opened the original Spago in West Hollywood in 1982. At a time when fine dining in the United States was still strongly shaped by French conventions, Spago brought pizza, pasta, local produce and a more relaxed way of eating into an upscale restaurant setting. Its smoked salmon and caviar pizza became one of its early defining dishes. With its close ties to Hollywood, Spago became one of the emblematic names in the development of California cuisine.

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Yumi Liu

Yumi Liu has been collecting and drinking wine for more than a decade and has earned a slew of wine certificates in the interim: level 3 WSET and now planning diploma studies; Educator level in Spanish wines (Wines of Spain certified), top level New Zeland wines (Wines of New Zeland certified) and obtained the highest score in her class for German wines (Wines of Germany certified). She has passed all of Ian D’Agata’s Italian wine courses and is generally regarded as being one of the most knowledgeable people on Italian wine in all of China. Over the years, she has also served as the Wine Educator at EMW wines, one of China’s five largest and most important fine wine importers and has led masterclasses on wines at prestigious wine shows including the Wine to Asia fair in Shenzhen and Vinitaly in Verona.

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