Gulou Area

Let’s go to bed
By Annie Wei

“Let’s go to bed” appears on the business card of The Bed Bar.

The restaurant’s style is similar to that of the Café Sambal. Both of them were designed and decorated in the space of a year. It’s another traditional courtyard house with antique furniture and ambiguous ambience with a little twist.

The gate is comprised of two wooden doors with a hanging red lantern overhead. For people visiting for the first time, it is difficult to imagine what it’s like inside. There are many small sub-rooms and two yards. The sub-rooms reflect the feeling of the ‘70s or ‘80s with big wooden beds, old-style dressing tables, and a basin for morning face washing. The combination of an old Beijing house and simplicity was obviously the main theme of the owners’ design.

Many people like hanging out here for drinks on quite nights and chatting with friends. And some find it the perfect locale for the after-wedding parties to impress their foreign relatives.

Still, 80 percent of the customers are expats. Some younger Chinese visitors said they liked it as a place for a quiet night, but some complained there was no parking available.

The Bed Bar does not provide meals but Tapas has snacks like spring rolls or prawn rolls. 

Bed Bar
Where: 17 Zhangwang Hutong, Jiugulou Dajie
Open: 2 pm – 3 am next day
Tel: 8400 1554