Where the Elite Go to Play: Exposing Shanghai's Exclusive Venues
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Tucked away in north Jing'an is the latest addition to Shanghai's already overcrowded bar scene. This one has every amenity to make it the latest "it" spot—expensive leather couches, exposed brick and an intimate outdoor patio. The catch? You can't go. Not if you beg and plead. Not if you look like a GQ cover model. Not even if you've slept with the right people. (Okay, maybe you can if you've slept with all the right people). That's because the Gold Cider Club House is not open to the public.
Soon enough you'll be seeing their booze brand sold at bars like Blue Frog and Boxing Cat Brewery, but you'll never make it past the cast-iron doors unless you're invited to one of their private parties. ClubHouse is one of a handful of exclusive venues around town open only to the rich and famous and those wily enough to weasel their way past the bouncer.
The Johnny Walker House is another such elite spot. The single malt whisky house—the only one of its kind outside Scotland—is an exceedingly cool refurbished space that mockingly beckons you inside. You can show yourself around the first floor, but you'll never make it up the copper plated elevator and then into the magical world beyond (think Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for high class alcoholics) unless you are making—and dropping—some serious bank. About RMB3,000 worth. Per bottle.
Then there's the Kee Club, hidden in the bowels of the Dunhill store in Plaza 66. This one is actually open to the public. But by public, they mean hefty- memberships-dues, rolling-up-in-a-Bentley, dropping-RMB440-for -Wagyu-beef public. And all this to sit in a fancy man cave where, I hazard to guess, flatulence is not nearly as acceptable as it is in your own personal man cave.
Next we come to the slightly more practical House of Roosevelt. This place is pretty boss because if you've run out of room in your apartment for your extensive wine collection, they'll let you store it here in their private cellars. You can sleep well knowing your precious bottles are being stored in some of the most luxurious 500 sq. meters of temperature- and humidity-controlled space in the city.
But if your last paycheck didn't quite afford you entrance into one of these incredibly high end venues, you might want to try People's 7 on Julu Lu. This gorgeous garden keeps out the masses by being entirely nondescript from the street and having a puzzle of a front door. Try your luck on the lock and treat your date to a semi-secret sake cocktail for RMB80-100.
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