Chocolate
日坛北路19号
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This blantant but fun rip-off of Lan Club has Beijing's Russian crowd by the borscht. Skip the upstairs restaurant and head down the escalator to a cavernous underground club pulsing with scantily-clad dancing girls, cheesy techno, over-the-top decor and half of Vladivostok.
Chocolate and Cheese
After descending an escalator into the depths of Yabao Lu, it’s immediately clear that Chocolate, with its surfeit of chandeliers and ceiling-mounted paintings, is a knock-off of LAN Club—with some striking Russian flourishes. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. When techno isn’t cranked up to 11, a live band mixes outdated Russian pop songs with covers from the Eagles’ Greatest Hits. The bathrooms, with their impeccably clean, faux-gold toilets, are guaranteed to startle the senses as much as the dance floor does. A sweet array of ¥38 cocktails are serviceable but have been known to lead to merciless hangovers. The hefty menu of Siberian delicacies, however, makes for decent bar fare. The manager tells us that “Chocolate got its name from the ambience of romance the bar creates.” The sultry blonde interpretive dancers on stage next to the band seem to know exactly what this means. Whatever Chocolate’s diverse crowd of Russian and Central Asian patrons are seeking—absinthe, Russian satellite TV or apple-flavored hookahs—this Yabao Lu pleasure palace is ready to please.
By Michael Engstrom
