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Specialize in Shandong-style dough drop soup

Naughty Monkey is a come-as-you-are craft beer bar near Chaoyang Joy City. It has a handful of taps, bar snacks, and its brick walls evoke a trendy microbrewery in the U.S.

A well stacked wine bar with plenty of bottle and by the glass options near Chaoyang Joy City.

Cafe by day, craft beer bar by night, Owlery is a fun and low key hangout for a variety of occasions. While they don't brew their own beer, they have plenty of global imports both in bottles and on tap.

A softly lit and inviting cocktail bar with well balanced, reasonably priced drinks near Chaoyang Joy City.

This sleek high end mall cafeteria eschews generic chains in favor of championing local independent F&B businesses like Cannon's burgers, Taco Stop (a spinoff of Palms L.A. Kitchen), Peiping Machine craft beer and more.  

Blanko Mini Market is a 4-in-1 combo: part café, bookstore, furniture, and stationery shop all housed on the fifth floor of Chaoyang Joy City. 

The cafe has about 40 seats, and providing over 30 choices of cafe, tea, and milk tea, as well as cakes, and an afternoon tea (two layers of nibbles and a pot of tea for RMB 168).

Plenty of potent rum cocktails are on offer at this Tiki bar on the east end of Chaoyang district. Its owners honed their skills at Sanlitun's Chaplin bars, and those chops are evident as soon as you sip these well mixed, delicious drinks.

After opening a pair of successful bars in the Sanlitun area, the Chaplin team open a huge, full fledged restaurant and bar on the east end of Chaoyang District. Its decor is decadent, full of antiques and props. The menu features cocktails and upscale eats. Though it's a bit off the beaten path, it's well worth visiting the next time you're visiting Joy City.