Who We Are
Shangri-La first opened in Sarasota, FL in 1991 and has been serving Chinese cuisine ever since. Our menu ranges from classic American-Chinese favorites, such as Egg Foo Young and Chow Mein, to more authentic Chinese cooking, such as Peking Duck and Whole Steamed Fish. All of our cooking is Cantonese style.
What is "Shangri-La"?
Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world.