Ninghai Shifu (Xiaowen Street Main Branch)
宁海食府（孝闻街总店）
An established seafood restaurant popular among locals, specializing in Ninghai flavors, with highly rated crab paste, mud crabs, and home-style braised pomfret with rice cakes.
Ninghai Shifu is a local seafood restaurant chain with multiple branches in Ningbo. The main branch is located in the Xiaowen Street area of Haishu District, with the address written as No. 96 Wangjing Road, within the Drum Tower commercial area. It specializes in Ninghai-style seafood, with recommendations including home-style braised medium pomfret with rice cakes, scallion oil mud crab, iron-plate razor clams, and crab paste, with ingredients selected from the daily fresh seafood display. The dining environment is somewhat crowded, and reservations are needed during peak hours. It has separate lunch and dinner hours, with the dinner service closing around 20:30. Many seafood restaurants in Ningbo close early, so it is best to arrive early. The average cost is about 150 to 195 RMB per person, which fluctuates significantly depending on the seafood ordered.
Opening hours
11:00–13:30, 16:30–20:30
Nearby sights
- Ningbo Drum Tower (Haishu Tower)
- Tianyi Pavilion (Tianyi Ge Library)
- Moon Lake (Yuehu)
- Ningbo City God Temple
- Tianfeng Pagoda
- Ningbo Museum of Art
- Ningbo Old Bund
- Qing'an Guild Hall