Cotton Bar Restaurant Shanghai
On a recent Saturday night I spent my first evening at Cotton’s.
It must have something to do with the fact that I’m not single that I’m still pretty much a Shanghai nightlife virgin or maybe I’m just old.
I enjoyed myself so much, thanks to the many Gin Tonics, that we decided to have brunch there the next day. The Sunday weather was sunny so the garden made for an excellent spot.
Cotton’s Food
European Classic Brunch- 65
Basket of croissants, dark bread, French bread, and toast, butter, jam, honey, Gruyère cheese, Ementaler cheese, Meat Platter and yogurt (inc. a coffee)
It’s more than enough to satisfy you for breakfast as well as lunch. A real brunch in that sense. The bread was a little to enthusiastically toasted. The ham, salami and cheese were generous. More butter makes it even better.
Prime beefsteak - 88 Rmb
A big steak that went down well. They forgot to ask us how we wanted it, and well, we forgot to tell them. A bit more medium would have made it even better. Accompanied with French herb butter/ baked potatoes or french fries, salad
Tea - 30 Rmb - refilled with hot water
An apple cinnamon tea. Getting additional hot water is no problem.
Coffee - 20 Rmb
Served with a can of hot milk.
Ice water - Free
Nice and indeed very cold due to an abundance of ice cubes
Cotton’s Service
A mixture of expats and Chinese waiters/waitresses. Very friendly and accommodating.
Cotton’s Toilets
It’s always the toilets. Not much wrong with it as far as cleanliness goes.
The lock on the door was broken but they promised to fix this. (I went there last night and although a week has passed the lock is still broken.
I know this is China but but my concept of privacy goes beyond blocking the door with my shoes. FIX THAT LOCK) The sitting part is not very spacious but has the upswing of a view on banana leaves. Water pressure from the tap is very light
Cotton’s Environment
An old villa, it seems I only go to old villas these days. This old French villa, dating back to the 1930’s, is nicely renovated with a great terrace surrounded by trees and flowers.
Overall impression of Cotton’s
A very nice spot for having your brunch on a sunny autumn day. Non-intruding music, good simple food and service.
Totally Spent
Time : 3 hours
Money : 223 Rmb
Cottons Shanghai Address
132 Anting Lu / Jian Guo Xi Lu, Shanghai
(right on the corner)
Tel: +86–21-64337995
Daily: 10am-late
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Disclaimer: All opinions are biased, based on non-existent food knowledge and influenced by the mood of the moment.
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 at 7:12 am,
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November 19th, 2006 10:22
(Sorry for the random-ness of this post)…
Four months ago I posted on many blogs, letting everyone know that we were trying to start a podcast (Rabbit Hole Daily) by people who had emigrated to other countries…
I thought it would be interesting to share all of our “misadventures” and news… I had hoped to get a contributor to/from every continent (i.e., a Brazilian in Japan, a Japanese person in France, a French person in Australia, etc.).
People leave their respective home-countries for all kinds of reasons; some people marry a “foreigner” and leave their country, some people take a job or do academic research out of their country, some are forced to leave for political reasons, some do it for the adventure. The podcast was designed to welcome all of these points of view. We’ve been working with mixed success to get all types of voices…
Podcasts are a great way to get complex stories out that would never make it onto tv or radio, and we’d like to use the medium to create something that’s informative, eclectic, and interesting, all voices and topics welcome (provided they’re well-written)!
At any rate, I’m writing to renew my call for contributors and say that we’re still around. We were accepted by itunes, we’ve been publishing consistently, and although we’ve had some technical concerns (people write articles, read them into a mic, then get them to me via internet or skype; getting it all edited evenly has been a challenge), we’ve just received some equipment donations by listeners that will make it possible to produce with ever-better audio quality.
Please consider listening to the podcast, and more importantly, contributing articles. (Articles are 2-3 pages, submitted 4-6 times per year, contributors are featured on our “contributor profiles” page, rules for contributing can be found on the “contribute here” portion.) If you know someone who has emigrated from their country of origin and is a good writer, please pass the word!
Thanks!
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