Chances are no one will ever read this, but since I chanced upon your post, sweetwillie, here are my two cents. T8 is okay, but nothing special. Even in Xintiandi, I would at least go some place with interesting food, such as Che. Personally, I only go to XTD for happy hours and weekly specials (Wednesday burgers at Kabb) because while entertaining, there are far more gratifying ways to burn cash in Shanghai (Portman brunch, champagne at Face, even go-karting.)