Clean, simple, and updated, this café is where one should head when in the mood for well-priced, Shanghai-style food. Appreciably more attractive than its neighbors, Shanghai Café prides itself on a pretty interior featuring a few booths and tables armed with bamboo steamers cradling those classic handmade buns—perhaps filled with tender pork, crab, and ginger with a steaming rich and fatty broth. Groups gather here with an intent to eat and their tables quickly disappear under the avalanche of dishes like sea cucumber drowned in a brown sauce infused with shrimp roe. A savory soup bobbing with bean curd, dried scallops and thick noodles; chewy rice rounds in a clear and delicious pork broth and spicy beef tendons are favorites of those in the know.