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Hottest Night Spots Around The WorldCondé Nast the premiere luxury travel and life style magazine released recently their lists for the hottest night spots around the world. As the summer approaching and you will all be traveling to the four corners of the world, I will be delighted to receive your feed back and experiences. Now to the hottest night spots around the world in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Chile, China, France, Mexico, Spain and Sri Lanka Australia Rooftop Cinema Melbourne, Australia The view from the sixth-floor rooftop of downtown Melbourne's landmarked Curtin House building is cinematic—literally. Outdoor movies are popular in Australia's second city, but this is the first to turn away from river and beach and toward skyscrapers. Two hundred striped deck chairs on a surprisingly soft fake lawn take in a screen showing everything from black-and-white classics to talked-about indies. Arrive just before 8 P.M., order the lemon granita with a touch of pear and gin, and mingle with the friendly locals Address: 252 Swanston St. Bermuda Café Cairo Hamilton, Bermuda Walking into Café Cairo from bustling Front Street with its pastel-hued buildings is pleasantly jarring: It's all Middle Eastern tapestries, exotic scents, and gilded hookahs borne by waiters. Also a restaurant, the place morphs late at night into a trendy bar with heavy dance beats and classic cocktails. The crimson velvet-hung private room in the back is a must-see. Address: 93 Front St. Canada Melody Bar Toronto, Canada With walls paneled in rich wood, alabaster lamps hanging from the ten-foot ceilings, fat Romanesque pillars, and an original 1930s wooden bar, the Gladstone Hotel's Melody Bar isn't so much nouveau retro as a rollicking saloon. Weekend karaoke nights have become the stuff of legend, with the host brandishing a giant APPLAUSE sign to stoke the crowd—an interesting hodgepodge of expertly coiffed hipsters, ad execs, pixie punk girls, and dust-caked construction workers. Address: 1214 Queen St. W. Chile Bar Yellow Santiago, Chile A skinny space of stainless steel wainscoting and burnt-red walls with a big round taxicab-yellow sign bearing its name, Bar Yellow is a clear indication that Santiago is embracing nightlife. Around midnight, young professionals and tourists congregate, eager to sample the world's finest beers, liqueurs, wines, and cocktails made with top-shelf ingredients. Imbibers sample the Immaculate (light rum and amaretto shaken with sugar and fresh lime and lemon juices) or aged single malts. Scrumptious food is also served, from smoked salmon to empanadas dulces for dessert. Address: 47-51 General Flores China Q Bar Beijing, China It's hard to find but worth the hunt to discover Beijing's hippest rooftop. Take the elevator to the fifth floor of the bare-bones Eastern Inn hotel, walk up a flight of stairs, and you'll find Q Bar, a comfortable space with deep-red walls. The master mixologist owners have a loyal following of sophisticated young expats and locals; they flock here to imbibe the signature Q martini, a breezy blend of vodka, crushed mint, and vermouth. Perch at the bar, or sink into a suede sofa and relax to the sultry strains of nu jazz and classic house. A spacious tree-lined terrace offers views halfway across the capital. Address: Nansanlitun Rd. Glamour Bar Shanghai, China Shanghai looks best at night, viewed through large windows overlooking the twinkling lights and skyscrapers of Pudong. Here, the indoor view also entices: Beautiful Chinese and expat couples, fresh from dinner at one of the gourmet restaurants in the same building, sip champagne and martinis. The decor blends Marie Antoinette–esque sets with 1930s Art Deco details (think pink lighting, chrome columns, parquet floors, and hand-painted Chinese screens). With more than 20 wines available by the glass, 300 by the bottle, and a whole bar devoted to bubbly, this place reeks of China's economic boom. Address: 20 Guangdong Rd. Monsoon Shanghai, China In a brilliantly renovated Art Deco–era brewery on Suzhou Creek, near the Moganshan arts district, Pier One is a complex of upscale nightspots, with moods that range from champagne fancy to dressed-down funky. Our favorite is the rooftop bar Monsoon, with stained glass and a spacious patio featuring sunset Jacuzzi happenings with DJs, cocktails, and even massage (to ease you into party mode). Here is proof positive that chic Shanghai nightlife extends far beyond the Bund. Address: 88 Yi Chang Rd. France 15cent15 Paris, France Paris's eighth-arrondissement golden triangle—bounded by the Champs-Élysées, the Avenue Montaigne, and the Avenue George V—may have trendy rooms galore, but it has long lacked a civilized but chic young lounge in which to have a chat, a drink, and a nosh. With the opening of this wonderfully louche new bar at the Hôtel Marignan, that need is stylishly answered. Hip designer Olivier Gagnère's chocolate-brown velvet walls, cushy sofas, herringbone parquet carpeting, and funky objets such as a wall-mounted stag's head are charming, as is a gold-leaf circular ceiling with two Murano chandeliers. Young French fashion execs and an international crowd of creative types chat above the pleasant Latin beat, enjoying light meals from the great sale/sucre (salty/sweet) tapas menu of Stéphane Colé, chef at Alain Ducasse's restaurant Spoon, also in the hotel. Try the namesake cocktail, made with white rum, violet liqueur, apple juice, and honey (cover, $24–$26). Address: 12 rue de Marignan Mexico Cibeles Mexico City, Mexico An air vent runs the length of the low ceiling, the walls are exposed brick, and the floor is concrete. Warehouse superstore or hot Roma neighborhood bar? That it's the latter becomes clear as you make out an intimate series of mini living rooms in which retro garage sale furniture (a chrome chandelier above a 1970s brown Naugahyde couch) meets high-end castoffs (a chintz couch whose provenance appears to be Upper East Side Manhattan circa 1965). The food doesn't range beyond a few pizzas, but no matter; the appeal is laid-back chilangos (capital city residents) conversing to a chill backbeat, the antithesis of the painfully trendy Polanco district nearby. Guests wander around, plopping into a Barcelona chair here, leaning against a dresser on an old Turkish carpet there, or chatting in front of a huge wall mirror framed by Vegas-like stage lights. Make friends with popular bartender Benny Carvente, who mans the sleek red-lacquered bar that runs the length of the back wall. Address: 17 Plaza Villa de Madrid Terrasse Renault Mexico City, Mexico High-performance racing car expert Renault revs up the Polanco district's nightlife in its new space that's part restaurant/bar and part showroom. Slink over from the Hotel Habita across the street for a tequila martini, with Gran Centenario Plata tequila, dry vermouth, and fresh-squeezed orange juice. Address: 214 Masaryk Spain Leblon Madrid, Spain By day, Leblon is a lunch spot for high-powered execs. But at night, the tables get pushed back, the music gets turned up, and the restaurant transforms itself into a boîte worthy of its Brazilian namesake. Christened after the chic Rio neighborhood (photos of it bedeck the walls), Leblon serves its homemade foie gras in the early evening—in Madrid, that means anytime before midnight—but its reputation rests on its fame as a late-night cocktail purveyor. With bossa nova pulsing from the stereo, you understand why sexy Spaniards snuggle into the club's suede banquettes and spend hours caipirinha-sipping and canoodling. Address: 10 Calle Recoletos The Penthouse Madrid, Spain In the past year, scores of open-air bars have discovered the outdoor heater, transforming Madrid's much-loved terrazas—once a summer phenomenon—into a year-round passion. The first European venture for Rande Gerber (of L.A.'s Stone Rose and New York's Whiskey), the lounge inhabits the roof of a former hotel for traveling bullfighters, now the hotel ME Madrid Reina Victoria. Upstairs, an urbane playlist and delicious cocktails like the signature Lavender Margarita provide the sophistication, but it's the setting that gives the place sex appeal. On a broad balcony that affords gorgeous views over the tiled rooftops and crowded pavements of the lively Plaza de Santa Ana, stylish young couples stretch out on wide Balinese teak beds piled high with cushions. Address: 14 Plaza de Santa Ana Sri Lanka Dick's Bar Galle, Sri Lanka This charming bar was named for Dick Dumas, a particularly colorful character who blazed the trail for the tangle of exotic transplants now living in this colonial anachronism three hours south of Colombo. A bijou lounge, Dick's incongruously boasts an electric disco ball that casts red beams on white-lacquered walls hung with seafarer's maps and mounted antlers. Tanned tourists spill out onto the leafy flagstone courtyard of the Sun House, Galle's original small chic hotel. Visitors, take note: balance the sun and surges of alcohol with "SLappas," an indigenous take on British comfort foods such as shepherd's pie. Address: 18 Upper Dickson Rd. 引用通告此日志的引用通告 URL 是： http://ahmedfathi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!52507BB9705F9B3A!842.trak 引用此项的网络日志
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