Decided to try again after a 2 year span. They have improved meat and bread quality (according to the manager)

With that being said, my only complaint is that the burger is too big to eat comfortably. I know that doesn't seem like a negative thing. However it is too tall to take a full bite from top to bottom and have to eat awkwardly. My friend also had the same thoughts. Once halfway through this 'Dagwood' inspired beast the bread starts to fall apart...

I ordered the spicy burger which has jalapenos. The taste was amazing. If I rated on that alone it would be 6 stars.

My suggestion would be to reduce the size of the patty and drop the price down from 60rmb to 45rmb.

Also, the new menu is much better quality, and the layout is better than the previous one.

Lush is a great place to study during the day: Coffee is Cheap, Good and Unlimited. How sexier can it get?

The food is consistent, and quality is decent for the price. i always order their sandwiches, its like a normal sandwich but with delicious extra sh*t like cheese, onions, bell peppers and sauce. i wouldn't complain about the burger prices, those things are huge and always filling, and everything else on the menu is around that same price. Their 2-5am burger special is the smartest thing i've ever seen a restaurant in Beijing do. Management sure knows how to appeal to the typical college student. >:D<

Waitresses are super friendly and helpful too, they always put in an effort to greet you when you enter and when you leave. So what if their English is not perfect, this is China. Learn your Chinese!

The only problem i have with lush is that there's no place for you to go if you are a non-smoker. At times i can literally see the trail of smoke move towards me from the person smoking nearby. Sometimes amusing but really...theres no escape! i always leave the place smelling like smoke even in the middle of the day.

But ya, Lush is pretty awesome.

I was living in Wudaokou for 2 years and keep going there once a while and I can say that this place is really the worst place in the area. Fortunately now there more places around, like La Bamba and Helen's. Reasons:

1.Price: completely overpriced. Currently and before. In 2006 a burger cost 25RMB, now it costs 45RMB. How is that possible? Just inflation? I don't think so. On an average inflation of 5% (now inflation for meat is 10% yes, but 2008 and 2009 it was negative) over the last 5 years the price should be now 30RMB. Imported ingridients? In 2006 USD was 8.3RMB/USD and now it is 6.3RMB/USD, so it should be cheaper for Lush to buy imported ingridients!!! Maybe their purchasing people is not so good....

2.Atmosphere: only for Americans. Quiz nights just for American topics, American food and enviroment (except for the poor English of their waitress). But still about prices, I don't understand why Americans are willing to pay more for the same food they have back home....

3.Empathy: have Lush realized how is Wudaokou changing? With the mess we have in our home countries more and more poor foreigners are coming to China to study Chinese but Lush still offers high prices. Euro and USD are not the same as before but their prices keep going up making for us foreigners harder and harder to afford their food and drinks.

4.Competitors: apparently some other businessmen they saw the chance given by Lush and oppened quite a lot of new bars and restaurants in the area. La Bamba and Helen's are great places, with the same food as Lush but with great deals every day. 15RMB small Qingdao bottle in Lush and at the same time 50m. away in La Bamba 5RMB draft beer. Want to know more? Go to La Bamba.

Dear Lush managers: your bar is in Wudaokou, foreigners there have little money. Basic rule for business is to have empathy with the customers. I strongly recommend you the following:

-Review your price policy.
-Not focus only in Americans: remember when Koreans left Wudaokou after the Korean Won fall 30% in 2008. USD looks to be following the way,....If not, in the mid-term your bar will be full of rich Chinese and no foreigners (the real rich people in Wudaokou) or you will end up same as O2 bookstore.

Until you change that, I will keep going to La Bamba and Helen's.

How can still people say the food here is cheap?? for a 'student area' in 'china'?. This place is basically for americans (basically newcomers) to gather together and prices are set up to avoid students other nationalities enter their realm

Thanks god we still have 'la bamba' to bring the balance to the force.

Lush is a good place to have some small lunch while reading a book or doing some work on your laptop in the afternoon. I won't go there for dinner or the quiz any more though.

The food (burgers, some salads, wraps are too small to consider dinner) is more expensive and doesn't live up to the food at closeby La Bamba (love the Fajitas there!). The beer is more expensive (15 quai for a small TsingDoa while LaBamba has 15 quai (down to 5 quai before 7 pm and 10 before 9 pm once you get the free card) local brew pints.

The pubquiz is awful if you're not from the US, at least 75% of the questions is about US affairs or songs that were popular only there. Apart from that it's way too difficult to get a seat. Won't be going there again.

This place pretty much covers the bases of what you want in a student place - burgers, meals deals, beer, drinks deals, music, goatee-stroking guys with laptops, quiz nights, late hours, nice girls, sociable people. The waiting staff verge on the moronic, but since they're not rude, just hopeless, it's almost endearing!

I saw this establishment termed itself a 'home away from home'. After visiting this place for the quiz one night I think 'the orphanage' might be more fitting. The clientele of general student misfits somehow contrive to create an atmosphere that starts at pretentious, and moves on to delusions of grandeur as the night progresses.

We arrived about 6.15pm and were just in time to grab the last seats available at the bar. The place was packed out with people trying desperately to make a cup of coffee or a coke last two hours before the quiz (8pm) and happy hour (8-10pm) started.

Some food was ordered and service was par for the course for BJ - mixed up orders, dishes not appearing etc... Didn't eat myself, but the chips were pretty woeful and the rest of the food was described as average at best. At these sort of places that has to be expected though. The 'Gourmet' sauce tray ambitiously priced at 30RMB pretty much sums up the whole Lush experience. Has to be said the manager was very helpful and a free round of cakes duly arrived with apologies.

The quiz was the saving grace of the evening (along with the 40RMB ice cold buckets of ale), really well thought out and hosted, its just a shame it's wasted on a place with a crowd like this. Quiz Night purists would be apoplectic with the shenanigans going on - The winning team had ten members with half of them on their laptops, and seemed to have found an extra half dozen points in the 10ft their paper traveled after being marked for the one round they could not cheat on....Aah the yoof ov 2day!

Not in a rush to return.

What is up with Lush? Seriously, they have been steadily going downhill. Food is still good but the fuwuyuan were dumb and now dumber. I had to ask 3 times for the same thing so I just gave up. Mojitos here are a joke. First of all its expensive but its okay because when we went it was buy 1 get one free but the drink was so badly made that I think they should pay me to drink this. It was packed with sugar so it was like drinking sugar with water and a squeeze of lemon juice. Trust me I gave other drinks a try too, but the Long Island Ice Tea was mediocre. Somebody fix this place!!

Not that impressive. Burgers are cheap but the buns come soggy, and a tiny bottle of mango price was grossly overpriced. There was barely room to sit when we went, forcing us to arrange a creative setup of chairs and stools. Nothing amazing, but not bad either. Basically, I’m indifferent about the place. Home fries weren’t very good, although service was quick despite how packed the place was. Probably won’t come back again on my own. But not bad for a quick bite.

The owners of Lush found the right recipe for success.

The Wudaokou student crowd love this place. It brings back a sense of community among college students that is commonly taken for granted back home.

The food is also great and the drinks are creative. Just think they could have picked a better name.