Where to go

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.

Merkel takes a break for hutong stroll

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.