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1."Magpie" Restaurant It has been two years since "Magpie" restaurant started its business. No matter its fa?ade or internal decoration is featured by an out-and-out hutong taste. Coffee + PIZZA + sandwiches are the main attractions to re-visitors. Among all the attractions, the manually-ground coffee is the most famous, and the delicious tuna pasta is the first choice of every new client.
2. "The Role" Cinema "The Role" is a cinema bar and has a T-shape layout which resembles a stage that implies anyone who enters the bar enters another stage of his life. Against the background of all movie posters, daily necessities are not important any more and only movies are the eternal topics.
3. "Here" Bar An old-fashioned camera is displayed at the most striking place on a big shelf at "Here" Bar. The camera was used by Mr. Chen Nong, a noted photographer. There is no air-conditioner in the bar, but cooling comes from the natural ventilation and the old-style ceiling fan to relieve summer heat. What is the most attractive in "Here" is the fragrant but cheap coffee.
4. "Salud" "Salud, which means Bottoms Up in Spanish, is one of the three bars in Beijing that are most culturally enriched and uniquely designed," commented Neighborhood Column of the Asia-Pacific News Channel, TV Singapore.
5. Yubang Yubang (literally meaning fish's kingdom) is located in a quadrangle complex at the depth of a Beijing hutong of 750-years old. It serves classic British snacks, breakfast, purely Italian pizza and fish series, plus meticulously selected grape wines, beer and cocktails. The best way of enjoying yourself at this bar is to taste wine and food on the simple and exquisite flat roofs at clear and moon-lit nights and quietly kindle your endless meditations over this ancient land.
6. Dangdi Shijian (The Local Time)
Dangdi Shijian (The Local Time) is a café located at No.1, Nanluogu Xiang. Sitting here and through the window, one can see Gulou Dongdajie (the East Street of the Drum Tower). The café is a small traditionally Chinese wooden structure with an attractive herringbone roof. You may be difficult to tell what its charms are, but you cannot drag yourself away from it. We can put it in this way that it looks like a house that will give you a sense of safety though a gust of wind may carry some broken tiles away from its roof.
7. Xijuting (or Hutongr) Entering Xijuting (or Hutongr), you will feel as if you are staying in the old Beijing streets and hutong for the numerous photos of old buildings and lanes. Its guest area is partitioned by the colorful decorations of the miniatures of “god of kitchen”, which may arouse visitors’ great novelty and curiosity. If visitors show their interest in DIY, “Hutongr” may offer you with an opportunity to make a cup of on-site ground coffee in person. And then, you can have a taste of “Deep Hutong” coffee, which share much in common with the coffee offered by “Hutongr”: It seems insipid when one first tastes it, but he will feel surprised for its soft taste and pleasant color.
8. Dongtang Inn In its strict sense, Dongtang Inn is not a youth hostel but a private inn only taking the business mode similar to the former. The inn is featured by a low price, simple registration formalities and a big-family atmosphere. The Dongtang dinning room next door to the inn is actually the inn’s cafeteria and café, where backpackers can have simple food and hot drinks and travelers’ guide in English. Backpackers may rent a bike from the inn for sightseeing or in search for snacks with old Beijing flavors. In addition, there is a variety of activities elaborately worked out by the inn owner to let visitors experience an original life style of Beijing hutong residents.
9. Sandglass Cafe One will feel at home when staying at this cafe. It has a narrow entrance, small lounge, simple bookshelves, green tea and timeworn keyboard, which remind one of the remote times. Obviously, the sandglass was associated with the time. The sight of this dark brown cafe, red sofas, red curtains and an old organ in it always bring back our memory of a musical lesson in childhood. Coffee served here is pure in taste and worth its price, especially Cappuccino made by the owner himself, which one has no choice but to have a taste. The inn puts up a folk ballad singing at each weekend.
10. Hongrenfang Bar Hongrenfang Bar lies cater-cornered to "Guoke" bar. There is a brown gate to the bar with a pair of copper lion-like handles. It is said that half a year is spent on its decoration, which shows that the owner had attached great importance to the internal design and decoration. Its internal decorations are characterized by the Chinese classic style, with an emphasis on the "Union between Heaven and Earth", an ancient concept about Chinese architecture. The soft gauzes afloat inside reveal the tastes of foreign countries under dim lighting
