Don't say that there are no delicious restaurants in the west of Beijing, the old Shanghai Hotel that has been in Beijing for 19 years has moved from Sanlihe to No. 91 A, Fuchengmennei Street, and is a neighbor of the "Temple of the Emperors of The Past Dynasties". Look at the storefront, a two-story antique building with carved beams and paintings, sitting on the street facing north and south, with the gold plaque of "Shanghai Old Hotel" hanging under the cornices, showing a delicate "Haipai" atmosphere in the surrounding green brick and gray tile Beijing hutongs.
Previously, this address was a Ningbo cuisine restaurant called Fenghe Rili, and the huge courtyard house carries the memories left by the old Beijing city to modern people.
The relocation of the old Hotel in Shanghai to this courtyard feels particularly harmonious, two cities with particularly obvious characteristics in China, one city takes food, one city takes culture and history, and what is presented to modern people is memory.
The restaurant opened inside the door of the mansion, giving people a sense of isolation and comfort, with dozens of private rooms on the upper and lower floors. Decorated in a crimson tone, it feels warm and melting.
On the walls of the private room are hung paintings from the 1920s and 1930s, celebrity jade photos of that year, and old stocks from the old times... It is like traveling through time and space to recreate the prosperity of Shanghai in those days, and people can't help but want to experience the Culture of Shanghai school carefully.
No matter which room you sit in, you can feel "home", calm down, decompress and enjoy life.
On the north side of the "winding path" on the first floor leading to the courtyard, there is a faded emerald green but still standing Shouzhu to welcome you, and at the "Tongyou", in front of you is an antique old Beijing courtyard. The branches of the persimmon trees in the courtyard "beckon" to you with the strong wind of winter, reminiscent of the beautiful scenery of the courtyard with leafy branches in spring and summer; the corridor wall of the courtyard is inlaid with exquisite brick carvings; in a corner of the courtyard, there is a rickshaw from Shanghai's old days... There are relics and charm of old Shanghai everywhere, which makes people linger.
The cuisine of the old Shanghai hotel represents the highest level of Shanghai cuisine in Beijing, and the authentic Shanghai cuisine evokes the hunger of the old Beijingers.
The nan milk button meat of old Shanghai cuisine is a representative dish of Shanghai, which combines the aroma of southern milk, the color is red and bright, the meat is fat but not greasy, with a faint aroma of southern milk.
The drunkenness of Shanghai cuisine is a must, drunken chicken, drunken fish, drunken shrimp, drunken crab, drunken mud snail every year to different seasons, the most different food, like the restaurant of the old Shanghai drunken chicken, Fenjiu drunken crab are particularly delicious, 58 yuan a cup of drunken chicken and 68 yuan a drunken crab price is not expensive.
Red braised yuan hoof, 108 yuan is definitely the conscience price, a big pig's elbow skin crispy meat tender, red color, rich aroma. Friends who like big meat can't miss this dish, more enjoyable than your southern breast button meat.
The restaurant also has a lot of Shanghai representative dishes such as fried crab with rice cake, snow vegetables with yellow croaker, grilled bran in all seasons, smoked striped fish, stir-fried eel paste, eight treasure braised whole duck, and edamame are particularly delicious. In 2021, the Old Shanghai Hotel will not close for the Spring Festival, and for the people who celebrate the festival in Beijing, a sumptuous Shanghai gang and Haipai dishes will be prepared. At the same time, two takeaway semi-finished Chinese New Year's Eve meals of 1280 yuan and 1980 yuan were launched.
It is particularly convenient to come to the restaurant, and it is very convenient to drive to the new site of the old hotel in Shanghai, Beijing, with about 70 underground parking spaces for the exclusive use of diners. You can also take Metro Line 4, No. 13, No. 42, No. 103 and other buses to Xisi Station.