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Shanghai Restaurant Review: Garlic BBQ
What is barbeque? Wait, I already answered that before. The better question is, what's an American-style BBQ restaurant doing in Shanghai? And, more importantly, is it any good?
EVERDAY 11:30 TO UNTIL SOLD OUT! This was the marketing that first got me inside the doors of Garlic BBQ, located at 285 Jianguo Dong Lu (about a ten-minute walk from Xintiandi Metro Station). "If it sells out every day, it must be good," I thought to myself.
"Expectation is the root of all heartbreak" - (Not) William Shakespeare
I must candidly admit that the vision of Garlic BBQ that grew in my head was unrealistic for what one could expect for a restaurant in Shanghai. In my mind, I expected a hole-in-the-wall roadside BBQ joint, a mom and pop establishment where Mom was an older heavily-bosomed Black


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