Restaurants In Shanghai

Shanghainese food is one of China's main regional cuisines, like Cantonese from the south and Sichuan from the west. Shanghai's restaurants tend to serve dishes from different regions, and it may be difficult to weed out a restaurant that serves true Shanghainese food. Typical Shanghainese fare includes jiachang doufu (home-style doufu, deep-fried), pao fou (a soupy rice concoction), and su ban dou (cold vegetables with bean mash).
Although the younger generations can be found dining or snacking into the late hours, most Chinese people follow a very strict eating schedule, so if you're dining at a more traditional Chinese restaurant, you can expect larger crowds between 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM and between 5:30 PM and 6:30 PM. At some restaurants you must arrive early for dinner (at least by 6 PM), or you'll miss all the best food.
You're not obliged to tip. Actually, almost all of the fancier restaurants in Shanghai tack on a 10%-15% service charge, which technically takes care of the tip. If there is no mandatory service charge, tipping is still not required, although more and more people are doing so at Western restaurants.
If you don’t get use to the Chinese food, you can go to the restaurants serving western food. There are many western restaurants in Shanghai, most of them are located in downtown area. Nanjing road is the most prosperous zone in Shanghai, along the road you can find several restaurants which are very famous, for example, Brasserie, famous for its French food; Amazon BBQ, in which you can find the most delicious Brazilian BBQ. Xin tian di is also a good choice, because there are many Bars in it, the service and food of them is satisfying, you also can find mangy westerners.
More information about the restaurants:
http://www.restaurants.com/World/WorldCity.asp?Country=CN&City=Shanghai