I've stumbled upon Enoteca when walking trough the Place shoping street (you know, the one with the "mother of all screens"). The place is somehow centraly located in the huge flight of stairs leading to the norht side of the "The Place" shopping street, yet it is somehow hidden. Passing on the street below the glass structure sandwiched in the middle of the stairs you might overlook it by day, but at night you can ceratinly see that something is happening there. And rightly so, because this place hides the best Wine Bar in the city. I've visited it several times since my first visit in late August and I've always had out of this world (Beijing world that is) experience!
Great service, great ambiance, great jazz music on Thursdays, great food and above all, by far the best value-for-money Wine selection in the City.
Wines by the glass start at 38RMB (With 2for1 happy hour Monday2Friday)and bottles start at 98RMB. My favourite pick so far: Abadal 5 Merlot at 300something RMB. Just an amazing Merlot that can stand on it's own. I mean, imagine; You can go out to a bar, spend 60+ or 70+ RMB per cocktail, drink three or four of them (not really knowing what kind of alcohol is used in the drinks) and spend 300RMB easily. While instead you can go to Enoteca, grab a bottle of wine and share it with your sweetheart and spend half the money while drinkig high quality wine that will not give you a headache the next day.
I think i've found my favourite place in Beijing.
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