2009 Dec 05 Swank Comes to Haidian with Dao Club
Haidian nightlife is typically defined by student-filled budget clubs like Propaganda. Dao offers a swanky alternative that saves hard-up college kids the cost of a taxi fare to Sanlitun. It’s also the umpteenth venue in Beijing to steal its name from Lao Tzu’s philosophy of “The Way.”
There are well-liquored drinks (RMB 30-45) and a healthy whiskey selection – a bottle can set you back up to RMB 3,980. Posh decor, staff who look like they came straight from a modeling agency and a DJ spinning recent hip-hop and R&B hits put Dao in the same mold as popular booty-shaking venues like Vics and Mix. If your place is closer to either of those, there’s little here to compel you to tread this path.
Dao Club
Daily 9pm-late. 1/F, Bldg A, Triumph Plaza, 143 Xizhimenwai Dajie, Haidian District (8801 6848) 道, 海淀区西直门外大街143号凯旋大厦A座楼1层
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