madeinoz said:
Well, I understand the frustation of dining out when you are seated next to chain smoker... definetely ruin the whole dining experience.
Most western restaurant in Shanghai however divide their area into smoking and non-smoking area, just like mine, Sydney Restaurant. The good news for all pro-non-smoking and family: Our Saturday and Sunday brunches are SMOKE FREE!

Good on ya mate, didn't lose me. Two ticks.

China has the most smokers in the world, but are way behind other countries in realizing that second hand smoke actually kills.
Hopefully, they will catch up soon, and save a few (many), innocent lives.

Saizeriya (萨莉亚）in basement of 555 W Nanjing Lu has a fairly large non-smoking section but that section is closed from time to time when the restaurant has few customers.

All the restaurants in Shanghai Centre alongside the Portman Hotel are non smoking inside with a few smoking tables outside.

THe word is Bonnie is smoking.....

Amokka on Anfu has a sign up that it is non-smoking until 8 pm when it re-opens on Feb 20th.
La Strada was already non-smoking; I often saw people out on the pavement for their fix.

Sichuan Citizen on Donghu Rd near Huaihai Rd....non smoking.

Thats a good post.
It will help all the visitors to visit only those hotels which are mentioned in this post to ignore the smoking problem.

I heard because of the Expo the government is now imposing a non smoking policy for all restaurants....however there isn't anyone enforcing this (i.e. I saw a guy smoking right in front of a nonsmoking sign at a restaurant, pointed it out to the waitress and she shrugged and said "no one to enforce"). BUT, judging from this extensive list sounds like we're on our way to a relatively smoke free dining experience! Thanks for all the input!

This all of non smoking restaurants are available in the shanghai...

Godly - Gong De Lin- Nanjing Rd
Godly Vegetarian Restaurant
Healthy Land Vegan Restaurant
Ji Xiang Cao - Lucky Zen
Loving Hut
Ming Sheng Healthy Vegan Restaurant
New Age Veggie - Huaihai Zhong

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Another Spammer. When will they ever learn expats aren't that stupid.

not sure if this one has been added, but Just Grapes on Anfu is non-smoking. Also, apparently Windows Scoreboard (the one at jing'an) is non-smoking..? probablly due to that new non-smoking expo law. yay!

fompi wrote:not sure if this one has been added, but Just Grapes on Anfu is non-smoking. Also, apparently Windows Scoreboard (the one at jing'an) is non-smoking..? probablly due to that new non-smoking expo law. yay!

Last time I was there it looked like Windows was non-smoking on one side and smoking on the other, not the whole bar. Bars are allowed to have smokers by the way. So are restaurants, they only need to allocate part of the area for non-smokers.

@ chingiskhan: ah...! good to know. thanks.

PaulOlivers wrote:These are some top-rated no-smoking and eco-friendly restaurants in the city of Shanghai as follows:

The Pudong Shangri-la Hotel
NADAMAN
Gui Hua Lou
YI CAFÉ

I would be interested to know what the criteria are for a restaurant to be classified as eco-friendly?

Gee's this thread needs a walker. You smoke, you leave = simple equation.

Question ?

Shanghai government announced that as the expo ends, so will the enforcement of and the legitimacy of the partial smoking bans in restaurants

Hello,
Great! i am a non smoker. So when i use to go abroad, i need to go to restaurant and most of them are full of smoker and they do smoking all the time. It is undesirable for me. So i am happy to see this list. Thanks

Hello dude,
That's much better to prohibit the smoking in the restaurant's and cafe's..... Smoking is very much dangerous to health know almost every person yet a huge number of the worlds population have smoking.... I wanna say that every one has to save his life and take care of his life for his family member's and friends also....... So avoid smoking ..... And also I wanna say that smoking is restrictedly prohibited in every restaurant...........

Add Gintei Teppanyaki on Nanhui Lu near Beijing Xi Lu to the list, eat there the other night, totally non smoking.

It's on my list. The non smokers guide to dinning in Shanghai.

As of May 1st, technically, ALL bars have to be ZERO smoking.

Like China though, what the law says, and what the cops know/enforce, are two different things.

Slowly but surely more and more restaurants are introducing a no smoking ban. Whether this is down to any kind of enforcement of the 'law' or off their own backs I don't know. What I do know is that it's pissing me off.

dbjiang wrote:Generally speaking, most foreign style restaurants are non-smoking, almost every chinese food restaurants are smoking.

Mostly , It will years if ever that Non -Smoking will be enforced in Chinese Restaurants , what about KTV ?

I'll be more happy really if they ban smoking in restaurants and public places. I cann't stand it.

change this thread topic to:

Any restorant owner that give a **** on the No-Smoking regulation?

12 hours later I feel like crap, after sitting in a smoke filled club last night with a groups of friends.
One drink + one tea and now a semi hanghover, coughing all morning (I've not been outside yet) and that's it! no more funk filled haze fest joints of a lounge, bar or restaurant.

Any places that enforce the non-smoking laws are the only ones I'm interested in. Having a smoking side of the room and non-smoking side does not count that is as effective as having one side of a plane smoking and the other side non-smoking.

Enter on the thread any that make smokers sit outside, have enclosed smoking rooms, or total non- smoking bars and restaurants....

All us smokers need is a small smoking room with an opened door or window, or an ashtray out side...makes note to self - bring nose plugs to bars now to cover up body odour and feet smells.

what they need is a couple of these at the back somewhere- we had these in engineering offices in Holland on the production floors. The non-smokers couldn't smell a thing.


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The problem with folks going just outside the door is that non-smokers have to fight their way past the smokers to get in even...

In fact it would be good if the tobacco companies installed these where requested at their cost.

Restaurants and clubs would use them if they didn't have to pay.

BONNIE wrote:In fact it would be good if the tobacco companies installed these where requested at their cost.

Restaurants and clubs would use them if they didn't have to pay.

Are you talking about tobacco companies in China? And getting these things installed here?