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For barfly


By Oliver Robinson (That's Beijing)
Updated: 2007-08-24 11:27





The best bar has to be the crowbar 鈥� multipurpose, sleek, with an
interesting design 鈥� more so than the big, straight steel bars they use
to make buildings, although I think they're classed as girders these days
anyway. Sadly the crowbar wasn't short-listed for this year's that's
Beijing Reader Bar & Club Awards; neither was the chocolate bar (quite a
surprise given its popularity after the 2005 remake of Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory); nor were prison bars, but then no one wants to be
behind them.

No, the bars of note this year were the kind you buy drinks from, sleep
on, or dance on, depending where you choose to wet your whistle in
Beijing. There are a few notable changes from last year. 2006 Best Bar
winner Browns seems to have been flushed from the proverbial pan of the
Beijing bar-goers' consciousness, everyone having realized that they
could still get drunk and act like a twat for half the price at most
places in Sanlitun. Meanwhile, Beijing bar scene aristocrat Bed has lost
its title of Best Decor to bourgeois brute Lan, which epitomizes the
modern-Beijing philosophy: "If it's expensive, it's good." But who am I
to talk? All four people who go to Lan regularly seem to think the place
looks pretty (pretty ugly, arf!), so good for them. Sort of.

The awards will be remembered, however, for dark horse D-22 scooping up
the mantle of 2007 Bar of the Year. Rock on, guys. The Wudaokou music
venue stole the award from under the noses of glitterati favorites Suzie
Wong's and China Doll, the latter having to settle for Best New Bar.
Otherwise, not a great deal has changed since 2006's awards, which is
great as we got to rerun everything we wrote last year and go home early.
Centro picked up four awards, including Best Service, a category that was
dropped last year seeing as surly service is almost a given when you go
drinking in Beijing. Perhaps this is why Centro won: Best Beijing-style
Service. Whatever the reason, expect the forthcoming Hooters venue to
snatch this category next year. The use of the word "snatch" is purely
incidental.

Browns
Location: No. 4 Gongti Beilu, upstairs from The Loft
Tel: 010-6591-2717

Bed
Location: 17 Zhangwang Hutong, Xicheng District
Tel: 010-8400-1554

Lan
Location: 4/F LG Twin Towers, 12B Jianguomen Waidajie, Chaoyang District
Opening hours: 11pm-3am
Tel: 010-5109-6012/13

D-22
Location: 242 Chengfu Lu (two doors west of 13 Club), Haidian District
Opening hours: Daily 6pm-2am, closed Monday
Tel: 010-6265-3177

Suzie Wong
Location: 1A Nongzhanguan Lu (west gate of Chaoyang Park), Chaoyang
District
Opening hours: Daily 6.30pm-late
Tel: 010-6500-3377

China Doll
Location: 2/F, Tongli Studios, Sanlitun Beilu, Chaoyang District
Opening hours: Daily 8pm-late
Tel: 010-6417-4699

Centro
Location: 1/F, Kerry Centre Hotel, 1 Guanghua Lu, Chaoyang District
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours
Tel: 6561 8833, ask for Centro























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