Dao Club 道

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 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, though, there’s little here to compel you to tread this path.