
Flair sits on the roof of The Ritz-Carlton, Xi'an, in the Gaoxin District, and guests reach it by a private elevator. The hotel presents it as an open-air lounge bar and restaurant with a 180-degree outlook over the city. Cocktails run from classics to reworked versions, along with the house's signature drinks. Food follows two lines, Southeast Asian small plates and a sushi counter. The rest of the hotel keeps other evening options close: Tasuro cooks teppanyaki at the table with a long list of Japanese whisky, and Jing Xuan serves Cantonese and Shaanxi dishes and has eight private rooms, each named after a street of the surrounding High-Tech Zone.
The Lab is on the first floor of InterContinental Xi'an Hi-Tech Zone, in the Gaoxin District, and takes the laboratory as its idea. The tableware is styled after lab equipment, and the list runs to snacks, specialty cocktails and craft beer. By day the room hosts business meetings, light Western meals and seasonal or brand-partnered afternoon teas; at night a resident band takes over and it becomes a place for a drink or a social get-together. The hotel lies in the city's southwest Hi-Tech corridor, a short way from the Tang West Market Museum and the Tang Dynasty Wall Relic Site Park, and its architecture includes an Oriental garden and private courtyards.
V Bar is on the second floor of voco Xian ETDZ, on Fengcheng 9th Road in the Jingkai District. It leads with the brand's own specialty cocktails, backed by whisky, gin, champagne and wine, with a range of snacks alongside. Seats by the floor-to-ceiling windows look out on the changing seasons, in the company of the brand's playful mascot. The hotel stands beside City Sports Park, with the CityOn and IMIX PARK shopping centers at its door. Its double-height lobby has gold-framed library shelves on both sides of the reception desk, and CaiLing on the ground floor cooks Cantonese food with Shaanxi touches across six private dining rooms.
WOOBAR is the cocktail bar of W Xi'an, the hotel on the edge of Qujiangchi Lake in the Qujiang New District. It pours signature cocktails in relaxed indoor seating areas from the daytime on, and after dark the place becomes a late-night social scene. A terrace offshoot, The Balcony@WOOBAR, looks over Qujiang Pond and serves sunset dinners, with seafood buckets and grilled dishes as its must-tries. The hotel covers more than 100,000 square meters under a Living Room 17 meters high, and all 372 of its rooms, on floors 5 to 26, have private balconies. WEI and YEN, the latter for Huaiyang fine dining, are among its restaurants.
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These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Xi'an guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 6 with a map and filters.