Constellation
1-2/F, 33 Yongjia Lu,
French Concession
near Maoming Nan Lu
永嘉路33号1-2楼
近茂名南路
5465-5993
Open 7pm-12midnight
- City Weekend
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This small, low-lit rectangular bar is one of Shanghai's best Japanese-style cocktail bars. Make your choice from the extensive cocktail menu and one of the well-trained bartenders will expertly craft your selection. If you want a quiet place for a perfectly mixed drink, this is one of the best venues in the city.
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This favorite quiet Japanese bar is going all-out with its second venue, offering two floors of bow-tied waiters, the well-stocked bar and superb cocktails we've come to expect from the original.
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Pound for pound one of the best bars in the city. As other posters have noted, they pride themselves one their superior products and time honored mixing style. A gin martini is just that, gin with a splash of vermouth. You want a glass of whiskey? theres only one question, neat or on the rocks.
Its simple elegant and hearkens back to a simpler time when a bar was where you went to enjoy a drink and a conversations with a small group of close acquaintances.
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Great bar. Excellent drinks. So professional. Looks like it was cut right out of Wall Street. Great place to take tourists too!
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Constellation 2 at Yongjia Lu is the younger, prettier sibling in the Constellation family (which is quite a small family, considering there's only two of them). The cocktails are just as strong and well-done, but the upgrade in aesthetics over Constellation on Xinle Lu cannot be understated -- I mean, besides all the comfy looking am-I-in-an-old-gentlemen's-smoking-club? furniture, this Constellation boasts one of those fancy toilets with all the buttons that do unmentionable things?
(I'm not cosmopolitan enough to know what the buttons do and I didn't want to spend an exceedingly long time hogging the toilet figuring the various functions out, lest other patrons think I'm gross and judge me! If you can enlighten me with a thorough guide, by all means, get in touch...)
But yeah, the drinks are good, the bartenders know what they're doin', and I happily sipped the night away with an Old-Fashioned perpetually at hand.
Note: it's right at the intersection by the light up a short stairwell, in case you have trouble finding it. Also, if you have a bigger group, you definitely want to go to this Constellation (2 floors) over the very, very small Constellation at Xinle Lu.
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5 stars - Reminds me of something to recreate a speakeasy. They have complimentary nuts and Japanese snacks. Bartenders are always willing to whip something special up.
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Cool bar with beautiful people!