Pubs.

Traveling to Beijing might mean giving up your favorite drinking hole, but it won’t mean giving up your tipple of choice.  China’s capital has come light years from the old days of the dingy hotel-basement bar, and now boasts a wide array of pubs with foreign beers on tap and all the comforts of your local.

It’s more common for in Chinese culture for people to do most of their drinking at a restaurant, accompanying a large, multi-course meal.  But with pub culture on the rise, there are increasingly more options in Beijing, many of them fully authentic and foreign-owned.

Most of these are located in the Chaoyang district, radiating out from the younger-crowd area of Sanlitun into the more mature expat strongholds in Lido and Shunyi.


The Tree
43 Bei Sanlitun Nan,
Sanlitun
100 meters west of Sanlitun North Bar Street
北三里屯南43号
三里屯酒吧街西100米
Phone: 86-10-6415-1954
English Link: The Tree…

Paddy O’Shea’s  
28 Dongzhimenwai Dajie,
Sanlitun
directly across from the Australian Embassy
东直门外大街28号
澳大利亚使馆对面
Phone: 86-10-6415-6389
English Link: Paddy O’Shea’s

Frank’s Place
Jiangtai Xilu,
Lido
west of the Rosedale Hotel
将台西路珀丽饭店西侧
Phone: 86-10-6437-8399 ext. 213
English Link: Frank’s Place

The Den
A4 Gongti Donglu,
Gongti
in front of City Hotel
工体东路甲4号
城市宾馆旁边
Phone: 86-10-6592-6290