Gourmet Cafe punches its creative flair in the noodle

Going to have to agree with above comments. Man, if I were still in Shanghai I would totally go with you just to help you take pictures of the food. :P If you ever decide to do a review of Lan Ting here's one of the basipingguo :) I was planning on doing a write-up of them for Likealocal before the whole getting kicked out of the country thing.

I have enjoyed several tasty burgers at Gourmet Cafe. And the atmosphere is kicky and fun.

But they piss me off with the "Bun Laden" burger. No one would have an Eichmann Fish Fry. There are plenty of cute names that don't involve mass murderers.

@thewaythingsare: if you go back and actually read the post you can do a count: 3 noodles dishes (2 good, one not so much) and one non-noodle dish (pretty damn good). Not sure where we said this is a noodle place that doesn't have good noodles.

@jenming: I second that motion! Since I rarely ever plan to go anywhere specifically to do a review, I never carry my brick of a Canon Powershot (circa 2002) with me; it weighs almost as much as my laptop. Yes, it would be great to be able to be more "professional", but I think that term denotes actually getting paid for writing, which we are not. Camera donations to food@shanghaiist will result in much love cyber-tossed your way.

I love love love Gourmet Cafe (the burger side), but I think the noodle side is a little pricey - especially considering that noodles are available everywhere in Shanghai, while good burgers are few and far between.

(However, I'd be willing to drop huge amounts of yuan for decent - not even good, mind you, just decent pho. Will - I know you'll read this. WE NEED PHO!!!!!)

i have to agree with you jen, a cell phone camera is not very professional, maybe the editor should perhaps invest in a bit of Photshop class? anyone?

I hope the endorsement above was actually for the noodles, it looks as if the non noodle dishes are better than the noodles? is that an endorsement of a noodle place that doesent have good noodles?

Shanghaiist needs to hold a fund-raiser to get Eric a camera. Any point-and-shoot canon/nikon would do. I am grateful for your reviews, but you could achieve multiplied effect with some proper color contrast.