MO Bar
The cocktail bar and late-night lounge at Mandarin Oriental Wangfujing, with a terrace that looks out over the Forbidden City.
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Beijing’s nightlife is at its best in small cocktail bars, tucked into hutongs, hotel corners and residential compounds. These are the bars in Beijing we know, with how to find the door, what to order and when to arrive.
Chaoyang / Japanese-style cocktail barVisited
Mokihi 1%er
A basement cocktail bar from the Mokihi group, run by bartender Zoe Zheng, tucked inside a residential compound near Taiyanggong.
Explore the profile ↗Dongcheng / Cocktail barVisited
Bar Long Fong
An ingredient-led cocktail bar inside the Park Plaza hotel on Jinbao Street, new to Asia's 50 Best Bars in 2026.
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Non-Binary
A molecular cocktail bar up a staircase behind Tiao Hai on Andingmennei Dajie, created by the Paper Planes and CHOCOLATE&MILK teams.
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Chocolate+Milk
A Sanlitun favourite that closed in 2023 and returned around the start of 2026 near Andingmen, now built around fermentation and wild yeast.
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Marzaka
Bar Long Fong's sister bar, about a hundred metres down Jinbao Street, with a kitchen and a looser, tropical menu.
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Vagalume
A small cocktail bar off Dongsi North Street, opened in summer 2026 by two bartenders from Bar Long Fong. Big pours, honest prices and beef noodles at the bar.
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TIAO
The cocktail bar of Mandarin Oriental Qianmen, in the hutongs south of Tiananmen. No. 50 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.
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Shifter
A farm-to-bar cocktail bar by Jinbao Place that opens at 2pm, with drinks named after single ingredients from a partner farm outside Beijing.
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Mao Mao Chong
A Beijing institution since 2009, now on Jiaodaokou South Street behind a door marked Obst Zimmer by MMC. Build-your-own fruit cocktails and thin-crust pizza.
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