Madison, Shanghai

I headed out to the French Concession on a Sunday night in late January. Had a reservation at Madison, a new bistro by Austin Hu, a brash new chef cooking up a storm in Shanghai's culinary scene since late last year. Pity they didn't have the usual ala carte menu, it was prix fixe night, and beef Chateaubriand was the highlight on the menu.

In fact, it was a rather old fashioned supper menu, with shrimp cocktail, gratin, onion rings, caesar salad and old fashioned apple strudel. Simple, yet perfected executed. I would defnitely be back to try their ala carte menu some other time.