Flair Rooftop Restaurant & Bar
Shanghai IFC, 8 Century Avenue,
Lujiazui
near Lujiazui Huan Lu
世纪大道8号上海国金中心
近陆家嘴环路
2020-1717
www.ritzcarlton.com/shanghaipudong
flair@ritzcarlton.com
Open Sun-Thu 5:30pm-2am; Fri-Sat 5:30pm-2am
Price Y200-Y299 per couple
Accepts International Credit Cards
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- City Weekend says
This is the highest outdoor bar in Shanghai, and with the Pearl Tower floating before your eyes, it's one of the most spectacular views in town. But there's still reason to go if it's a rainy, hazy day. Inside there's a rustic fireplace to keep you and your date cozy at the wine bar and a sushi counter. Prices are sky-high, but you will wow your guests on any clear night.
- Contributor Description
The indoor area of FLAIR is reminiscent of a contemporary lifestyle rooftop Penthouse, while the al fresco area offers breathtaking views of The Bund and Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Guest can relish an extensive beverage list and a mesmerizing array of Asia tapas, sushi and raw seafood at Shanghai's highest outdoor restaurant and bar.
We are very pleased to let you know that Flair rooftop restaurant and bar has got the City weekend awards! June 2nd, City Weekend dished out the 2011 Reader's Choice Awards to the top bars and restaurants in Shanghai. Flair got two categories honor among Shanghai’s huge selection of bars:
Best Hotel Bar: Honorable Mention
Best View: Editor's Pick
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I went for drinks with my colleagues after work and what a place to chill out. Unfortunately it was raining so we could not sit outside. Did go out to catch the breath taking view when it was not pouring. Though I have lived in Shanghai for so many years, the view of the city from the terrace will give you a different high. We enjoyed our beers and the staffs were attentive yet not obtrusive. I would recommend this place for couples and it’s the place if you want to impress people.
Great rooftop terrace with awesome view. Service and the staff friendliness is worth mentioning. Try the sushi and the cocktails. I ordered their special cocktail which was very good. I am looking forward to going back.
Upside: Nice lounge music and a great view on the rare day when Shanghai has a clear sky.
Downside: Poser patrons, arrogant and prickly wait staff, a platoon of black-clad doormen who serve the singular purpose of being in the way, exorbitant prices, the shortest cocktail list you will ever see, and the weakest drinks in town. I almost ordered a shot just to see if it would come in a thimble.
Bottom line: Left in a hurry, feeling taken. Poor value and losing proposition. Won't be back.
The main selling point of Flair is of course the view on the outside deck but there's much more to it than that. The inside is very relaxed, especially with the fireplace roaring at one end and the live DJ playing some great chillout songs at the other. I recently went to a friends birthday party there and the staff were refreshingly attentive by Shanghai standards, especially considering how crowded the place was. The only downside to the evening was that the wind on the terrace was a bit gusty sometimes but I guess that's to be expected when you're on the top of a 58 floor building. Hoping to try the weekend high tea soon but until then, I highly recommend it for a nice evening out in Pudong.
My first and only experience at Flair has destroyed the Ritz Carlton brand image forever.
My husband and I went there on a Friday night around 10:30 with another couple. A girl that was guarding the elevator in the lobby told us that the place was full, there was an hour's wait, and we could sit and order something in the lobby while a table became available. She would put our name on the list and call us when ready. So far so good. We ordered drinks (from a very unimpressive menu, which by the way did not seem adequate for the Ritz Carlton) and nursed them for nearly an hour. A table by the window opened up and we asked to move there while we waited to go up to Flair. We were told that window tables were reserved for hotel guests. Some other customers from a nearby table simply picked up their drinks and moved there. No one stopped them. The waitresses had no better way of knowing whether they were staying at the hotel than we did.
Meanwhile, some people were being turned down at the elevator's door, but others were getting through.
It was getting close to one hour. We asked the waitress how much longer we would have to wait. She signaled to the girl that was still guarding the elevator, who signaled back without even looking down at her waitlist. "Six minutes", she said. "Six?", my husband asked, "That's an odd number." "Yes, six minutes". "Six or sixty?" She looked confused. My husband asked again: "You mean one hour?" "Yes." She seemed clueless. We decided to pay the bill at the lobby and go talk directly to the girl with the waitlist. She insisted that it would be an hour's wait, and would not listen to our argument that that was exactly what she had said an hour earlier. We asked to see where we were on the waitlist that she was holding, and she said there was no waitlist, and she had never written our name down. But the place was full and we would have to wait another hour. We demanded to see her manager.
Five minutes later the assistant manager showed up and handed out cards with the name "Andy Ding". We explained the situation. He said that the girl didn't know any better, she had just been instructed to stop people from getting into the elevator because the bar was extremely busy that night. He said he would talk to her later. We tried to explain that the girl was the hotel's face and she was giving a very poor impression. "Yes, I know", he said and insisted that he would train her later. We said it was unacceptable to treat customers the way we had been treated, that to keep us indefinitely waiting in a lobby without even putting our name on a list with a forever-sliding one-hour target was disrespectful and a waste of our time. Mr. Ding then said that a couple of tables were indeed available, we could go up immediately and he would offer us a free drink to make up for the trouble.
The Ritz Carlton suddenly sank to the level of the cheapest and filthiest watering hole. We declined the free drink, left and won't come again.
For being a 5 star hotel I must admit that i'm not impressed at all. Not even the view! Let's start with the price. You must spend RMB 3500 to have a table outside. Crazy! Secondly the view. Well you can surely see most part of Puxi side, but they way the rooftop has been designed and how they have arranged the seats, it actually means that you can't see much from up there while you sit and "enjoy" your drinks. Besides that, it's very windy up there.
Service there is even worse. I had to call over a waitress all the time and she had no clue about good service for working in a 5 star hotel. We were 6 people and she came over asking what would you like to drink, instead of offering us all a menu. I mean if you MUST spend over RMB 3500 then you surely need to order some food as well. So I ordered a drink and she left without even asking the rest of my friends what they wanted - shocked! In general her English was pretty bad and you kindly had to remind her to bring this and bring that. Its absolutely terrible service there, considering we were at a high end rooftop bar belonging to Ritz Carlton. They have a lot to improve there, so for me its a "been there, done that".
I forgot to review! For what the place is, four stars. Just don't think it would be anything else or go in expecting something lively.
Truly stunning view, obviously, since that’s what you are paying for. The rest of the interior is quite chill and very gorgeous. It’s a bit like hanging out in a hotel lobby, if you are into that sort of thing. Cocktails are good yet pricy. In the end, it’s is a nice place to take anyone you want to impress, to serve as a fancy place to start or end your night out, or even just as a place you go to feel glamorous and oh-so-chic.
The Flair at the Ritz-Carlton is the highest outdoor bar in Shanghai, and, with the Pearl Tower’s bulbous pink belly floating just before your eyes, it has the most spectacular view in town. The city has rarely looked better than from a sofa on this 58th-floor terrace. Tunes are provided by a DJ not a CD, and were surprisingly loungy and cool. Drinks are pricey, of course, but they always are at this elevation. Expect to pay ¥90 for a cocktail, plus that pesky 15 percent that hotels tack on for “service” (does it actually go to the service personnel?). But there’s no minimum spend, even at a table–just be sure to call and reserve a few days in advance if you want to sit outside.[HTML_REMOVED] [HTML_REMOVED]Reviewed in August 2010.[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED] [HTML_REMOVED]Our Rating: 4/5[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]