Figgy pudding? Eight Christmas dinners in Beijing
By Jim Boyce | Deck the halls, silver bells, roasted chestnuts, Batman smells. It’s Christmas in Beijing and a few people asked me this morning about where to get a festive meal today. I quickly […]
Month: December 2017
Farewell Migas | Spanish restaurant’s 7-year Sanlitun saga ends next week
By Jim Boyce | These is a difference between the best restaurant in Beijing and the best restaurant for Beijing. And rare are places that deserve both titles. A top candidate this past decade has been […]
Worts of wisdom | Boxing Cat’s Michael Jordan address Beijing’s home brewers
“I think of it like a bloody tooth taste.” The few times I have met Michael Jordan of Shanghai-based Boxing Cat Brewery, he has shown a flair for putting craft beer into easy-to-digest terms. Sunday was […]
Mike Hall, RIP | A Beijing blues fixture for over a decade
Mike Hall, a vital part of the Beijing blues music scene for more than a decade, died earlier this month in South Africa. “Humble Mike” arrived on the scene in the mid-1990s and jammed over […]
Choose one! The nine cards of (Beijing) Christmas
Help me pick a Christmas card for 2017! Photos from this year and years past. Which image captures Beijing best now!? 1. Ho ho Joe! A Merry Christmas is a Sanitary Christmas. (At Joe’s Bar & […]
Den of grieves | Iconic Beijing bar gone two years this week
By Jim Boyce | The Den closed two years ago after a nearly two-decade run as one of Beijing’s best watering holes. It is sorely missed. The happy hour was top-notch, with many people’s go-to the […]
Hoo-Ray! Sand Pebbles new Mexican menu is out
By Jim Boyce | Creating a professional menu can take a great deal of time, from coming up with potential dishes to fine-tuning the recipes to taste-testing them on customers to doing the photography and […]
ARCADE party Friday | Pac-Man, ping pong, burgers, get off my lawn!
Update: I’ve added the launch party drinks list. See it below or at this link. By Jim Boyce | I’m old enough to remember the arrival of Pac-Man, way back in the early 1980s, before […]