Bar 168

Suzhou, China

Bar 168 is a bar at Kimpton Bamboo Grove Suzhou, the brand's first hotel in mainland China, on Zhuhui Road in the Gusu District. The hotel is a rebirth of the Bamboo Grove Hotel, which it calls China's first Sino-Hong Kong cooperative hotel and a famous name in the 1990s. Today it is a cluster of low buildings set among gardens and canals, and the bar itself is surrounded by water on three sides. The menu runs from cocktails to vintage whiskies, wine and champagne, and afternoon tea is served at the bar too. At nightfall the bar hosts the hotel's Social Hour, pouring selected wines alongside seasonal cocktails, while The Grove restaurant cooks modern Suzhou and Huaiyang dishes.