Category Archives: Zeta

High flyers: Results & photos from Hilton Beijing Pole-Dancing Competition IV

The fourth pole-dancing contest at Zeta Bar offered everything one might expect: high-flying antics, revealing costumes, plenty of hooting and hollering, and diligent amateur historians taking hundreds of photos to…

Spin city: Pole-dancing VI this Saturday at Hilton Beijing

My only car accident in this city happened an hour before I judged a pole-dancing contest at bar Zeta in the Hilton Beijing. Coincidence? Maybe, but I will probably walk…

My spin on the third annual pole-dancing contest at Zeta

Xiang Xiang (2nd), Mimi (1st), Sigrid (“Miss Pole-pular”), and Goldfish (3rd) – I woke up with a sore neck the morning after the third annual pole dancing contest last Saturday…

Readers’ Writes II: Oliver, BH, Stella and Chelsey

Welcome to Readers’ Writes week, starring the collective wisdom of 17 fellow bar-goers who answered my survey about their favorite Beijing drinking holes and the city’s nightlife scene. They include…

Happen stuff

Cafe Pause will feature German music and Jagermeister cocktails on September 23 (8 PM on), and co-owner Stefan Fleischer is offering a free shooter to anyone wearing Leiderhosen. / Crowne…

Zeta: Eye candy galore

Traces of Austin Powers, The Jetsons and Laugh In come together fabulously in Zeta, a lounge and dance club that opened Monday as part of Hilton Hotel‘s US$18 million upgrade….

Beijing Boyce VIII: Opening Shots

Ch-ch-changes: Is Neo Lounge set to reappear? The bar had a cult following before it closed more than a year ago and is the topic of a forthcoming documentary. Which…