LAN Club 兰会所
4/F Twin Tower, B12 Jianguomen Waidajie,
CBD/Guomao
LAN is located in the LG towers across from Silk Market
建国门外大街B12双子座大厦4层
5109-6012/13
www.lan-global.com
sn@alchemy-global.com
Open 11am-late
Price More than Y400 per couple
Accepts International Credit Cards
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French designer Philippe Starck has dolloped the Twin Towers with glamor, making eye candy the real main course at this seen-and-be-seen restaurant and club, where some of China's top stars go to dine, imbibe and party. The restaurant serves some of Beijing's most delectable contemporary cuisine, and the club's cocktails are actually worthy of their high price tags.
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LAN Club Beijing is an exclusive lounge and restaurant with global artistic taste.
Being the only work by renowned artist Philippe Starck in China, LAN holds a large number of art treasures and well-known antique furniture, like the world famous hand-made Baccarat crystal chandeliers, the black ones especially used by European royal families, and hundreds of world famous baroque paintings hanging from the ceiling and the walls in unique frames. Additionally, a near to a 1.000 square meters large oil painting canvas painted by 20 foreign artists, was cut into pieces to fit LAN, which now form the walls of the 35 private rooms. LAN holds a fresh looking oyster bar, a luxury cigar room, a red wine chamber, a classic English bar and a restaurant serving Contemporary Cantonese cuisine highlighting specialty dishes from all over China.
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I've heard the food isn't as impressive as the place (that'd be hard to do, I imagine), but I've never felt the need to eat when I went there. The place is a feast for the eyes and even if you didn't have a bite to eat all night you wouldn't leave hungry. Designed by Phillipe Starke, the place is dazzling, and it's not wonder Beijing's starlets go there. It's perhaps the only place where anyone would find it hard to pay attention to them. The drinks are well mixed and creative, the perfect accessory for the place.
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Matching the expectations for China of investors and youngish jet-setters, Lan offers the perfect venue for self-made men and women to parade their style.
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did not get chance try their food, the Cosmopolitan cocktail is so so... but love their furnitures, Philippe Starck he is great!
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I'm really trapped in betweens.
Feast for the eyes, not the stomach.
Ok, if you have a very important guest, like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs and you need a place to really really dine to impress, this is the place then. Just note that your credit card will most definitely swipe lots of ZERO.
Otherwise if you're just bringing a date, just stop for the cocktails and dont even start with the menu.
Food for me is just so so, nothing impressive.
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Great place, great ambiance, but the worst Long Island Ice Tea on the planet.
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this is so beautuful place..i love it
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LAN is cute with a funky vibe. Certainly not a feast for the eyes! If you have taste, go to FaceBar to feast your eyes upon delectable art and fine cuisine. I found LAN to be very wannabee. (I only saw the main hall, entryway, large dinning room, bar and row of gaudey bathrooms... there were two or more rooms I did not see because they were reserved for a company event... perhaps these are what everyone above was raving about?) The staff is nice enough, and the patrons were cool. LAN is a decent place for taking associates when you have an expense account at your disposal.
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Does anyone else feel like they're in a transition scene from "Ocean's 11" while sitting in the LAN Club? I mean that as a compliment. The LAN Club offers some fantastic scenery to go along with the meals.
No two tables, chairs, pictures or plates seem alike. With a ceiling covered in framed paintings, Victorian-styled tables lining the dining halls, private bathrooms, a jazz club and several long bar rooms, LAN is nothing less than extravagant. One could spend several hours poking around the South Beauty Group's creation.
As much as one could rave about the interior decor, the food is another story. Typically, one comes to a restaurant to eat food, not to sample it. LAN's portions are simply too small. While they've got a robust wine selection, this isn't a restaurant where one gets the most out of the meal.
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Liked the martinis, was amazed by the decor but was disappointed with the food. It certainly did not live up to the surroundings or warrant the staggering price tag.
I think in the future I would stick with the drinks and the people watching.
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Please note, LAN new website is http://www.lan-global.com/
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I have been here many times for private parties, dinner parties, drinks, fashion shows, etc. I agree with many above on the small/tiny portions with high price tag. Plus since the olympics there is new a 10% "service charge" added to everything but the waiter/bartender assured me this did NOT got to him but the boss! The place looks great but that's it. The tiny bit of food you end up getting is not amazing anyway. It's overhyped and overpriced. One night I had to order a bloody mary FOUR TIMES before they used tomato juice that wasn't rotten! It could have been the horseradish that was off too...They didn't even apologize!
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LAN is a place for indulgence, its super expensive, beautifully decorated, cocktails are not for the faint hearted, service is a little clumsy but refreshingly friendly. Also worth a mention is their DJ on weekends who's music style is quite unique for Beijing and seems to somehow just get the music exactly right for the situation.
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This is the first bar in Beijing I went to since moving here about a week ago. I'd never imagined such a gloriously kitsch place could exist. The rhino! The water spewing swan taps! Loved it. Sat at the bar with friendly chatty bar staff and enjoyed the jazz band (the bass guitarist rocks!) Martinis were not clean and crisp, but rather chemical tasting (like cheap college vodka). It was pretty quiet on the Friday night even late. Perhaps patrons were saving themselves for Soiree Blanche? In any case, will definitely be bringing out of town visitors here.
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this venue is particularly baffling to me... but after reading a review on another website, its a bit more fathomable how it came to be, how its existence is allowed. the answer to this is...it was designed in under an hour by someone who cant possibly outdo his earlier works, and who is known for designing using a current emotion on a whim, mr philippe starck. ahhhh, clarity!
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact.Everything I designed was unnecessary. I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression…."
being as to how thats a direct quote from an interview with Mr Stark himself, we can clearly see this place is one big joke (and fat paycheck) for the 60 yr old frenchman.
as for my thoughts on this hole, errr, establishment, it is, for lack of a better or more eloquent sentence, a completely disgusting mess of cheap crap. the lighting is poor, the use of space awkward, and they seemed to buy nothing of quality, not even for the flooring, which I noticed chipping away... fake art made a feeble attempt to decorate the walls (or cover the holes, to be more precise), the ceiling was a mess of industrial cables and tubing, and the annoying as hell TV monitors replaying video clips of past parties didnt do it any favors to up the classiness factor. ummm, just a suggestion, but when your club is frequented by old, balding men accompanied by Russian sex workers, its not exactly prudent to showcase it. the prices were ridiculous, and in all honesty, i didnt want to ingest anything to lower my inhibitions in a place full of the types i encountered here. scary. and i wasnt the only one who noticed. i heard others comments. none good. the only revelers of the skanky ambiance were the ones who were too drunk when they arrived. the bar area smelled, and thats not new in beijing, but it SMELLED. the staff was RUDE, unbelievably so. i finished my cigarette, threw it on the ground, and before i even had a chance to move an inch to the side, a man dressed in head to toe white was stomping on MY foot as he was trying to get to the butt and put it out, which, by the way, i had done myself. no "sorries" even uttered, not even a bit of concern in his eye or twinge of regret. idiot. who trained these people?? i also dont get the whole fascination with the bathrooms. they are garish, lack ANY taste, and are, again, just a hole stuffed chock-full of CRAP accessories you can buy at Walmart. to put it short and curtly, this place looked like it belonged in a scene of Alice in Wonderland witnessed by an individual on crack. seriously, i can go on, but wont waste my time.
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The prices are the same as 5 star hotel bars and that's as far as the resemblance goes. The food is mediocre, the drinks are bland, the music (whether live or not) would be better suited for the elevators.
As for the design, I don't know what Philippe Starck was on, but I DO NOT want some of it. The whole place looks like a bad acid trip and had the architect been anyone else, it would be considered for what it is: an eye sore with an overpriced menu and dodgy ambiance.
Customers can be divided in three categories: 1) wannabe hipsters who secretly believe they are the Beijingren version of Paris Hilton (yes, this is a classy joint); 2) couples who believe that money is the fundamental basis for... well, everything, if you catch my drift; 3) innocent tourists/newcomers who heard somewhere that this was one of the best bars in town.
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My group of 10 had a sensational dinner in one of the many private rooms last Friday. The whole place was a fantastic experience, from the decor and service to the food and entertainment. The latter even included one of us reclining and spinning on the huge lazy susan a la Nicole Kidman in "Eyes Wide Shut". We agreed that the place is best described as "Alice in Wonderland meets Eyes Wide Shut" Our friends have asked what we ate, and it is hard to describe - so many exotic courses in the exotic banquet, so "Asian International Fusion" will have to do.The Oyster Bar and Club Room are also amazing. So many places, so little time!