The Peninsula Hotel houses the most ornate bar in the country, Salon de Ning, which recalls 1930s Shanghai. The live band is the focal point. Right across the way is the Cuban-inspired Pen Bar. Read more.
Rooms vary in themes. Leather club chairs, lush draperies & dramatic iron candelabras combine with factory steel in this steampunk alternate reality. For cocktails try The Mistress ($14). Read more.