Mercato by Jean-Georges Review

Shanghai Food | New Year's Eve Dinner at Mercato by JG, No. 3 on the Bund Mercato by JG is one of my favorite Western restaurants in Shanghai. I have to say that in addition to the great view, the dishes are also stable and excellent. The difficulty of booking a New Year's Eve dinner in Shanghai is beyond my imagination. It is almost impossible to book any Chinese restaurant a month in advance, so I can only switch to Western restaurants. Fortunately, my parents are reasonable and agree to this New Year's Eve dinner that "elderly and children" cannot participate in. My old father arrived at the store at 5 o'clock and got a window view seat. Thank him for letting the fancy advertisement of Citigroup Tower accompany us for dinner. There are not many restaurants that can use the Dianping set meal on New Year's Eve, and this is one of them. A two-person meal is too little for three people, and a four-person meal is too much for three people. In line with the "big New Year" purpose of "abundance every year", we ordered a 2k luxury four-person meal, so that I was full before the steak was served, and finally realized the theme of "abundance every year" with two takeaway boxes. 🌆Environment: One of the best view restaurants in Shanghai, you can see the three-piece set and countdown lights throughout the meal. 💁Service: The service fee is included in the set meal, which is considerate. The speed of serving the dishes is faster than expected (it is so fast that I am full immediately). In terms of dishes, there are no disappointments as always. 🍕Signature Black Truffle Pizza (228r) is a must for every table. You can only taste the aroma of truffles when you eat it while it is hot. 🥩Grilled Angus Ribeye Steak and Stir-fried Vegetables (968r) is medium rare. Whether it is paired with vanilla sauce or pepper & salt, the meat is delicious. The portion is really large and you can't finish it. 🍣Porcini Salmon (258r) is medium rare and tastes just right. This way of eating is quite special for people who like sashimi. 🦞Italian lobster ravioli (228r) is much inferior to the other two main dishes, so there is no need to order them separately. 🥑Warm seafood salad with avocado, homemade ricotta cheese with cranberries, emperor fish sashimi with Italian chopped olives and dill, spicy tuna tartare with black olives, every appetizer was a plate, and the seasoning and ingredient quality control were very good. 🍮For desserts, tiramisu and Alfado coffee ice cream are ordinary in appearance, but generally not sweet and still edible. The three-layer tiramisu looks a bit fake. 🍹Mojito (group purchase 28r) Although the taste is nothing special, it is so pleasant to drink a cup with the beautiful scenery. In general, if you want to find a western restaurant with a good environment and good taste, you can choose this one.

This weather is perfect for a late-night snack in the yard with the autumn breeze. As soon as the Scottish razor clam king arrived, I couldn't wait to get off work and rode my bike to eat it. The salt-baked one was perfect, firm and juice-locking. I also had an off-menu deep-fried artichoke with 5J ham and potato foam~ Great! ▹Ham cream balls Better than anything I've ever had before. The filling is not very creamy, and it melts in your mouth with a fresh taste. ▹Spanish baked rice cakes It's really not worth it to pay 159. You can also bake Manchego cheese yourself. Just drizzle some almond honey. It's salty and fragrant. I feel a little sick of eating one piece. ▹Coffee chocolate whiskey ice cream tart Put Movenpick ice cream (chocolate & coffee) on a flat cone waffle and drizzle whiskey on the surface and grill it. The wine taste is quite strong, and the collision of hot and cold, but the taste is a sticky mess (not much technical content

The history of the Bund is familiar to everyone, and the Bund 3 has a background with Michelin Samsung, you will not be unfamiliar. It is famous in New York, and its owner at the helm has the enviable Michelin Samsung honor, and because of its constantly emerging ideas, it is called "the wonder of modern French cooking." Jean-Georges From New York to Shanghai, it also brought the Michelin three-star STYLE and French romance to the Bund. What excites me most is that the 2018 Michelin list just a few days ago finally lived up to expectations and picked stars, which inevitably added my love for it... I often compare good restaurants to lovers, but Jean-Georges is not a normal lover. TA with elegant romantic temperament, often will bring you surprises, that painting like a dish, people can not bear to say. The lounge, which I remember most when I entered, was a living room separated by brass frames and white glass, with modern tables and chairs and decorations, and a marble bar. The dining area is simple and elegant, as Alan Deron (Zorro player) feels, clean and simple, with a gentlemanly elegance. Some people compare chefs to food creators, and I compare chefs to artists, art is the source of their creation, cooking is the inspiration of their creation, and the food that brings us is the crystallization of their creation. Art comes from life, life also comes from art, this is true. The bread before the meal is divided into French and walnut raisin whole wheat bread, are freshly baked, the warm bread in the hand exudes a attractive fragrance, the walnut raisin whole wheat bread is very delicious, crisp and tender, and the rich milky butter match, it is simply a perfect match. Behind that main dish, there is always a gift from the sea. Icelandic flounder after steaming hot, keep the original juice in it, plus the crab mushroom flavor, that delicious taste, can simply drop your eyebrows. Crissy clear soup, from Thailand, sour taste, with fresh taste, the list does not lose nutrition, so "duo", let people forget to be in the magic capital, and swim in the sea! This dessert seems different, a mug up, look up, there is chocolate custard inside, there is also some warm fruit frosting and vanilla mayonnaise next to it, how to eat this? The waiter politely elaborated with me, dug the custard, imported the warm fruit frost and vanilla mayonnaise, the sour and sweet warm fruit frost and the sweet chocolate combined to neutralize the sweet and greasy taste.

From entering Building No. 3 on the Bund, the whole light becomes dark but soft. The elevator goes up to the restaurant and is booked in advance, but through the dialogue of the reception staff, it should be possible to arrange directly. The entire restaurant is light industrial style with wood and leather mix, plus lighting effects and candle lights on each table, suitable for close friends and couples to eat. Did not sit in the double seat by the window, but you can still see the night view of the Bund outside the window. The dishes chose a set meal, warm seafood salad with butter lemon, the entrance is very fresh and sour; tuna meat salad with crisp rice, a soft and hard taste is rich; lobster dumplings, meat is very elastic, fresh, but with some citrus peppermint leaves and other seasonings I don't like; The first few dishes have been slightly full, and then on the staple food black truffle egg pizza, thin and thick hand clap, will not be like the black truffle pizza of other homes before some bitter, his family can not eat bitter; smoked beef ribs, taste very like pork, too full so I have not finished eating; The last three desserts are good. Two different cakes are matched with different fruit mud. The cake is sweet and the fruit mud is sour, just to relieve the greasy, and there are three ice cream balls, but I think it is a bit sweet for me, and the whole boyfriend eats it. The overall environment, service and taste are still very good.

Opened at 5:30 in the evening, because I had booked a seat before, I arranged a view seat by the window for us. In the evening, the weather was very good, the visibility was very high, and Lujiazui under the sunset was unobstructed through the window, and I liked it very much. We decided to order a bottle of red wine and a bottle of Voss appetizer first. After chatting for half an hour, I was a little hungry and ordered the famous pizza and beef ribs plus half a lobster. The lobster is very fresh and the meat is tight, but the taste is quite satisfactory, there is no special feature, the service fee of 268+10[%] is not recommended. The beef ribs can eat the taste of sugar-sweetened ribs, but it may be because it is charcoal roast, so it is especially fragrant in the mouth, suitable for friends who like sweet taste. As for Pizza, let's say, if you are only going to eat a staple here, then it is highly recommended that you choose Pizza, this Pizza may be the best pizza in Shanghai. We eat from 5:30 to 8:30, about 8 o'clock after there will be vacancies. In addition, the waiters are more professional, the service is proactive and always smiling, worthy of the service fee of 10 [%] here.

The restaurant is twice a year on Monday, and the Bund department has always been a popular place, especially the JG-owned Mercato. Everyone is sharing the Spring Restaurant Week 2020. I will write about the autumn Restaurant Week 2019. I found that this spring menu is exactly the same as last autumn menu, and the seats in the restaurant are still super compact and feel a bit crowded. We ordered 3 double packages for 5 adults and 3 children, and chose all the optional combinations in the package. The most impressive is the unique aroma of the sun egg with the truffle, which tastes very good. The fried salmon with bovine liver fungus is almost 5 minutes cooked, and the fish inside is very tender. "Homemade cream cheese with strawberry jam" unique cheese with strawberry jam, applied on the bread strips is very unique. "Crispy beef ribs" is different from traditional steak, the taste is more unique, that is, the photo is a bit ugly. The restaurant week almost listed the signature dishes, full of sincerity. I feel that the service is OK, and the arrangement is orderly if there are many guests. If you want to see the scenery of Lujiazui, the number of people cannot be large, otherwise you will definitely not be able to do the window.