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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 14 bars
Best bars in Guangzhou
The 10 most notable bars in Guangzhou, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
The Happy Monk
Unit 107, G/F, Peace World Apts, 29 Jianshe 5 Rd
281 m from Taojin station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.286, percentile 100 of 14
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2
庙前冰室
48 Miaoqian W St
567 m from Dongshankou station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.274, percentile 92.31 of 14
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3
Hope & Sesame Guangzhou
Miaoqian Xijie 58
558 m from Dongshankou station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.265, percentile 84.62 of 14
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4
Hooley's Irish Pub - Guangzhou
101, 8 Xing Sheng Lu, Zhujiang New Town
411 m from Liede station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.250, percentile 76.92 of 14
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5
Revolucion Cocktail Guangzhou
9 xing sheng rd. / liede district
365 m from Liede station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.214, percentile 69.23 of 14
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6
1920 Restaurant and Bar
广州市沿江中路183号
211 m from Haizhu Square station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.096, percentile 61.54 of 14
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7
The Paddy Field Guanzhou China
38 Huale Rd
300 m from Taojin station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.089, percentile 53.85 of 14
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8
The Strand Beer Cafe
1 Chunfeng Road, Wuyang Xincheng, Yuexiu District
351 m from Wuyangcun station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.061, percentile 46.15 of 14
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9
13factories十三行
珠江新城华穗路121号
426 m from Zhujiang New Town station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 0.907, percentile 38.46 of 14
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10
Jojo's Riverside
阅江西路琶醍文化创意区B11号
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 0.830, percentile 30.77 of 14
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).