Daily 3pm-late
100m north of the City Hotel, Chaoyang
6417 7330

It may look like Vogue is back, but the 88 on the freshly painted building is the only that remains from the original. It’s now a club dedicated to football - you can tell by the name taken from a Chinese soccer fans’ website. Tons of TVs dot the interior and private rooms come equipped with two TVs and an internet-ready computer so that fans won’t miss a minute of the action. Meanwhile, the upstairs DJ booth pumps the kind of techno that made Vogue (in)famous.

Daily 6pm-3am
3 Weigongcun Lu, Haidian
6845 1142

This bar caters to the West Side climbing crew and organises climbing trips around Beijing. Mountaineering gear and camping equipment are the bar’s equivalent of wallpaper, along with posters of beefy scaling studs flexing their pecs as they ascend edifices.

Daily 11am-midnight
2/F Pacific Century Place, 2A Gongti Beilu, Chaoyang
6539 3586

One of Beijing’s more genuine American-style sports bars, complete with barrells full of peanuts and baseball-cap sporting staff.