Shanghai is gradually gearing up after the summer and with Moon Festival over and October holiday just around the corner, the city is starting to feel positively autumnal. Here’s a round up of what’s good, what’s new and what’s happening over the next couple of weeks.

1) Hello to…
Shanghai takes another bite of the Apple as the tech giant prepares to open a third store on Nanjing Lu. Steve Jobs may have left the building, but Apple continues to expand around the globe, and China is a fertile market. The Nanjing Lu store will be bigger than the current outlets in Lujiazui and Hong Kong Plaza.

Another interestingly named bar throws open its portals this week. Kartel on Xiangyang Lu is the latest trendy terrace bar to launch. This time of year is ideal for outdoor drinking, so we reckon they’ll do pretty well.

If you can’t face leaving the house but need to get your hands on some alcohol (hey, it happens), you should put new delivery service called DrinkFans.com into your web bookmarks. The site sells spirits, wines and beer at decent prices and has some cool articles about alcohol appreciation. And if that is not enough they also have some cocktail recipes!

News has reached us from Laris Towers that David is opening a Shanghainese restaurant on Anfu Lu. Le Sheng looks set to do for ben bang what Sichuan Citizen did for chuan cai and Hunan House did for xiang cai—should be interesting.

The guys behind everyone’s favourite pirate bars, the Rhumerie Bounties, are branching out in terms of geography and substance with plans for a bistro called X in the Sinan Mansions complex. They’re rumoured to be taking the space above Chicha. Whether it will be pirate themed or not, we’re unsure at the moment.

More rumours abound on the bar scene as Mokkos looks for a new venue. The blink-and-you-miss-it Japanese shochu bar on Wuding Lu is growing in reputation, so it needs to grow in capacity too. Initial plans are focusing on the Jinling Lu area by the Bund.

Despite recent reports of permanent closure, Tantra has risen like Lazarus from the dead, and is open for business once again. We’re not exactly sure what happened there, but it’s good news nonetheless.

2) What’s on…
September’s music calendar is dominated by the mighty Black Rabbit Music Festival that’s happening in Shanghai and Beijing. In Shanghai, the action will take place at the Shanghai Rugby Club (2700 Zhangyang Bei Lu, near Wuzhou Da Dao) on September 17th and 18th.

The festival is organized by the Split Works collective, and will involve international names like Ludacris, Yellowcard, 30 Seconds to Mars and Grandmaster Flash as well as local talent. Tickets are 260 RMB advance or 350 RMB on the door, and can be reserved at www.damai.cn/ticket_29517.html.

The best dining deal in town at the moment has to be Sasha’s 1 RMB promotion. To breathe new life into its upstairs restaurant space, the villa bar has a new chef and menu, and is offering a meal for just 1 RMB to anyone who hosts a table of six people for dinner. Even better, if you manage to recruit 11 friends, two of you get to eat for 1 Yuan. Parties of six or over get a free bottle of wine too.

3) In the news…
Seven foreigners have been arrested in Shanghai under suspicion of credit card fraud. They are thought to have forged overseas credit cards in order to splash out on luxury designer goods in the Nanjing Xi Lu and Huaihai Lu shopping districts. Using over 150 dodgy cards, they racked up around 1 million RMB worth of purchases from the likes of Louis Vuitton, Apple and Chanel. 

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