Highly Recommend Bookworm, Beijing

By Jian Shuo Wang on 2006-01-07 23:22 · Books

At night, I went to a bar (what they call themself as a library, but I expected to go to a bar or tea house), called Bookworm in Sanlitun area in Beijing.

It is a nice place to spend an free afternoon or night there. There are many books (16,000 as described in the store card) inside the library. Most of them are English books and magazines that you can borrow or read inside the library. It is much better beyond my expectation. The foods and drinks are not expensive. Typical coffee and tea are 15 RMB per cup, which is not bad.

Here are some pictures taken with my Nokia 6670.

© Jian Shuo Wang. Image in courtesy of Bookworm

© Jian Shuo Wang. Image in courtesy of Bookworm

© Jian Shuo Wang. Image in courtesy of Bookworm

© Jian Shuo Wang. Image in courtesy of Bookworm

© Jian Shuo Wang. Image in courtesy of Bookworm

© Jian Shuo Wang. Image in courtesy of Bookworm

Thanks for Wei and Wang Yi (from ChinaBBS) to bring me there.

There are many small gathering happened there. I was so surprise to meet my friend Jocelyn from Market Place program of National Public Radio and many of her friends. Nice night.

Address:

The Bookworm

Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road,

Chao Yang District, Beijing

100000, P.R. China

Tel: (010) 6586 9507

Their website: http://www.beijingbookworm.com

7 Comments
It looks attractive. There should be more this kind of the bar in China.
— Jim · 2006-01-08 02:13
nice place. Is there one similar to this in Shanghai?
— aline · 2006-01-09 22:31
There is a bookstore near Yuanmingyuan called "One Way Street Library", which is supposed to be very unique. I haven't been there yet, but have read enough rave reviews and am going to check it out.
— haxi · 2006-01-09 22:51
Mvm reported the library with picture here:

http://wangjianshuo.com/mvm/000957.htm

And other reports are here:

http://blog.donews.com/laobai/archive/2005/11/08/619394.aspx
— Jian Shuo Wang · 2006-01-09 23:47
I met Wang Yi at Bookworm last week when I was visiting in Beijing. It is a great place for casual business meetings and friends gatherings. The food is excellent!

In fact I like it so much that I decide to make it my temporary "living room" the next day, I invited several friends over during the day and evening. In-between the meetings, I got my emails done with their Wi-Fi Internet service.

Wonderful!

Jian Shuo, thanks you for your recommendation.
— Xiaofeng · 2006-01-18 21:10
hey, i found a website introducing bookworm too, it's in chinese, seems it's getting famous

http://www.qutou.com/content/showevent.php?eid=2245

just took a look and discovered the "April Gourment" is nearby too. where i can find some niche sauce that hard to find in beijing :

http://www.qutou.com/content/showevent.php?eid=2250
— alice lee · 2006-07-31 16:53
comfortable! I want to feel it!
— Susy · 2007-04-06 15:46