Down-Home Kitchen is a new restaurant brand launched by Shanghai television presenter Lin Dongfu, who has created an old time feel, a place to tune out the sounds of modern city and listen instead to the swinging melodies of the 1930s and 40s.

The place is decked out in wood gathered by Lin over eight months, scouring the nation for authentic old wooden doors, windows, banisters and flooring. Down-Home Kitchen is all about bringing out the true flavors of the ingredients. Here the seafood is cooked in the traditional Shenjiamen style, the lamb is the finest free-range from Huzhou.

Dishes such as steamed fish with lamb, bamboo mushroom and chicken soup are all distinctive, creative, and possess a complexity of flavor that you have to try for yourself.

Down-Home Kitchen
Location: Building 15, Tongle Fang, 48 Yuyao Road, Shanghai
Tel: 021-5213-5277
Opening hours: 11:00-23:00