2,200 CW readers voted for their favorite Shanghai restaurants. These are your winners.

Best Bar: Velvet Lounge

Partying at Velvet is like partying in your own living room, just with better drinks and someone else to clean up afterward. Over the past year it's been the place for Shanghai’s young urban professionals to meet up, get down and share delicious thin crust pizzas. User agathejiale declares: “This bar is all about a lounge atmosphere, the music and being seen." With 22 percent of the vote, Shanghai agrees.
First Runner-Up: Lounge 18
Editor's Pick: Bar Rouge

Best Cocktails: Constellation

After 16 years of bartending, owner Kin knows his drinks. The original Constellation was so popular that Kin opened the second (official) Constellation last year to the glee of cocktail lovers. For the 25 percent of voters who can't even look at a drink if it's not shaken by a man in a bowtie, stop by, say congrats and buy Kin an Old Fashioned–his favorite drink on the menu.
First Runner-Up: The Glamour Bar
Editor's Pick: M1NT

Best View: VUE Bar

With a picture-perfect 360-degree view of the Bund, a midweek drink deal that is a Shanghai institution and a 36th floor open-air Jacuzzi that Donald Trump would envy, it's easy to understand why VUE Bar took home 27 percent of your vote. Come work out this formula for success yourself, preferably over a light and delicious VUE Bar signature martini.
First Runner-Up: The Glamour Bar
Editor's Pick: Jade on 36 Bar

Best Band: Banana Monkey

For the second year running, local dance-punk misfits Banana Monkey show how irresistible they are, winning 28 percent of the vote. This fearsome foursome and their unique brand of infectious tunes evoke images of a young garage band from ‘70s suburban London. Check CW's Live Music listings for their next show; these guys don't play that often.
First Runner-Up: The Rogue Transmission
Editor's Pick: Cold Fairyland

Best Jazz: JZ Club

This club weathered old foes and a new challenger in Xintiandi to take the top spot for the second year in a row with 31 percent of the vote. Online user agathajiale raves: “The music's always great, offering different styles from basic jazz and gypsy jazz to Latin.” Catch owner and bassist Lao Ren on stage filling in for an errant musician or go up to the terrace to lounge al fresco with no table charge.
First Runner-Up: Cotton Club
Editor's Pick: House of Blues & Jazz

Best Budget Bar: The Shelter

This subterranean club and former bomb shelter keeps things simple. The Shelter's rock bottom drink prices are a by-product of the club's mission to bring good music (sans frills) to the Shanghai masses. Most cocktails are RMB25 and beers start at RMB20 so you can concentrate on what truly matters most–the music, not your wallet.
First Runner-Up: I Love Shanghai
Editor's Pick: Bulldog Shanghai

Best Happy Hour: Mesa & Manifesto

Shanghai is divided on where is the best place to spend happy hour. Mesa & Manifesto’s weekday specials beat out Bulldog Shanghai's by a mere 10 votes. This Julu Lu patio draws the crowds in the summer months as punters enjoy warm weather along with RMB35 cocktails, house wine and house pours and RMB25 draft beer from 5-8pm on weekdays.
First Runner-Up: Bulldog Shanghai
Editor's Pick: O'Malley's Irish Pub

Best Promoter: matt&flo

matt&flo's Florian Luthi and Matthew Sutter throw parties that follow a simple logic: if you throw it (“it” being a fantastic party), they will come (“they” being the party-loving masses). Hosted at lesser-known Shanghai venues, matt&flo’s parties have developed a loyal following over the past five years, paving the way for this year's win with 25 percent of your votes.
First Runner-Up: Riviera Events
Editor's Pick: Free the Wax

Best DJ: Ben Huang

Old school talent has pulled through in the race for the city's best DJ as one of Shanghai’s favorite sons, DJ Ben Huang, takes the number one spot over Phreaktion’s Siesta and Banana Soundsystem’s elnomo. His techno and house beats won him just over 18 percent of the vote. Although born in Shanghai, Huang began his self-taught assault on the music world in Beijing back in the mid '90s before most of China even knew what electronic music was. A jet-setter, Huang divides his time between Beijing and Shanghai, throwing his signature parties Colour and Yellow, the latter taking the Shanghai masses smoothly over the midweek hump at LOgO week after week. More recently, Huang has spun his way into the hearts of club kids around the world playing some of the hottest parties in Europe.
First Runner-Up: Siesta
Editor's Pick: elnomo

Club of the Year: M1NT

"Hot" would be one way to describe this 6-month-old club which garnered 27 percent of the vote. "Controversial" would be another. The club, which has branches in Hong Kong and Shanghai, has a shareholder policy (RMB5,000 a pop) and is frequently the topic of fiery online debates. On the CW website, user alexferguson says bluntly, “After two visits, the crowd at M1NT gets two full fisted thumbs down.” Others defend it vehemently. User john11 says, “Food is great, people are beautiful and the atmosphere is rockin'.” Gimmicky or not, on busy nights you’re guaranteed to find a well-dressed line at the door. Expect cocktails mixed by behind-the-bar superstars Cross Yu, Damian Fenoli and Danielo Hoti, music spun by DJ Choice Kutz and bottles of Krug to match. Just don’t stick your arm in the shark tank: they’re a bit nippy (as founder Alistair Paton can attest).
First Runner-Up: The Shelter
Editor's Pick: MAO

Best Bartender: Adam Devermann (Mesa & Manifesto)

Girls flirt with him, guys envy him, but in the end, we all just want a drink from Adam Devermann. Formerly of Velvet Lounge, Dervermann is the bartender of choice for many of Shanghai’s expats. Nearly a quarter of readers voted for this mixing mastermind. Bartending since the age of 18 (ironic considering he couldn’t drink until he was 21), this economics and finance major put himself through school by the sweat of his shaker. Swing by the bar and challenge him by requesting a unique and storied drink–then ask him to tell you the history behind it. He'll have more than a few good tales to tell.
First Runner-Up:Cross Yu (M1NT)
Editor's Pick: Dean Callan (Bacardi)

Best LGBT Venue: Shanghai Studio

This bar-cum-gallery-cum-underwear shop left everyone in the (fairy) dust with a solid 28 percent of the vote. Packed to the hilt every weekend, this maze of rooms draws a diverse crowd thanks to non-stop events, friendly wait staff, a cozy dance floor and strong drinks. User kgrl declares, “There’s something for everyone–even fag hags and fruit flies enjoy it!”
First Runner-Up: Frangipani
Editor's Pick: Eddy's Bar

Best New Club: Sin Lounge

Las Vegas move over, the Oriental Pearl has her eye on the crown of decadence. That said, there's no better place to have a lounge-cum-club called Sin. With a juicy red apple at the door and a snake-like entryway, it’s no wonder nearly 40 percent of you, our angelic readers, voted for this sinfully fun venue. Say a few Hail Maries on your way out and you're good to go.
First Runner-Up: M1NT
Editor's Pick: LAN Club

Best Al Fresco: Barbarossa

Moving up from its second place finish in 2008, this Moroccan-themed venue is a clear al fresco favorite, garnering nearly 24 percent of the vote. Whether you go for the perennially popular weekly ladies’ night or just for a quick break from the urban jungle, set yourself up with a hookah and a well-mixed drink, then sit back and enjoy.
First Runner-Up: Cotton's
Editor's Pick: Mesa & Manifesto

Best Bathroom: People's 7

By "best," we mean trickiest. If we told you how to turn on the light, it wouldn't be as fun.
First Runner-Up: M1NT
Editor's Pick: The Glamour Bar

Best Music: LOgO

Though not a "true" live music venue, readers still love it, giving LOgO 34 percent of the vote.
First Runner-Up: Yuyintang
Editor's Pick: Live Bar

Best Beer List: Boxing Cat Brewery

If the brews are good, punters will come–even to Minhang. The ballots say it all, with BCB garnering 21.8 percent of your votes.
First Runner-Up: Bulldog Shanghai
Editor's Pick: Southern Barbarian

Best Hotel Bar: VUE Bar Live

With great views, a swanky cigar room and our favorite Jacuzzi, VUE makes the north Bund look good. It's no wonder they got a third of the vote.
First Runner-Up: Jade on 36 Bar
Editor's Pick: Cloud 9

Best Pub: O'Malley's Irish Pub

This pub also got a runner-up nod for family friendly dining. We won't tell child services, but we can say that they got 20 percent of this vote.
First Runner-Up: Big Bamboo
Editor's Pick: Park Tavern

Best New Bar of the Year: Brown Sugar

Winning over 29 percent of the vote, this Taiwanese chain has proven that it's not a flash in the pan. User meimeime declares: "Great music every night. The house band has great singers. Very entertaining. If you bring a date here, you won't fail to show her a good time." With acts known for handing out roses to the audience and smooth and lively jazz tunes, it's no wonder Brown Sugar and the Brown Sugar All Stars Band have cemented their place in Shanghai's live music scene.

• 5:The number of months Brown Sugar had been open before it won readers' hearts and took home the New Bar of the Year crown.
• Drink: Mojitos are the drink of choice at Brown Sugar. Enjoy their buy-one-get-one-free deal on Thursday and Sunday nights.
• Fact:The Taiwanese Brown Sugar group's first venture in Shanghai was not Brown Sugar the jazz club, but their investment in the now defunct Bar Hulu on the Bund..

First Runner-Up: Cotton’s Xinhua Lu
Editor's Pick: Kaiba, The Belgian Beer Bar

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