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Though this jazz lounge still lacks a few key elements (like a house jazz band), the laid-back feel, simple red decor, grand piano and elegant (mostly digital) jazz music puts Gong He in the running for classiest budget bar on Nanluo Guxiang.
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Gong He Bar is red: red couches, red gauze curtains. If Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" transmogrified into a bar on Nanluo Guxiang, Red House is what that lipstick and swaying would become. Though the owners (also behind The Republic just north on NLGX) do not know Lord Palmer, they do know how to coalesce dozens of red sofas and armchairs with tasteful polyphony in a fantastically large minimal space of concrete floors and white walls, which could just as well suit an art gallery. Live jazz and variegated lighting heighten a sense of dynamic simplicity. The menu is a photocopy of the Republic's, so patrons can count on those YY15 Tsingtao draughts and YY25 Mojitos. More in line with the crimson décor and the Miles Davis mood, however, are the Shanghai cocktail (YY20) and Bloody Mary (YY20). Drink what you may, the modern beatnik will love lounging back on the red upholstery, gazing at an eclectic crowd and wondering which one of the women is most addicted to love.
Michael Engstrom