My tripper friends and i went to South Beauty to have lunch during our one day Nanjing trip, and they like to try something really new and local Chinese dishes, and we stopped by 1912 Bar area, here not only have bars at night, but also full of elegant restaurants around.
They got a good business on weekend especially, but we were lucky that we can have a private room, the room are decorated like a royal palace, with nice lights and books.
There are many choices on the menu, it almost take us 20 minutes to take the order, and which we ordered as you can see the pics above. But i think the prices is a little bit expensive, but the food was totally worth it.
So if you want to have a local flavor of Sichuan food in Nanjing, you could go to South Beauty to give it a try.