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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pop-Up Beijing wraps up an impressive three-year run this weekend with a Christmas flea market on Saturday and all-day (and likely all-night) happy hours on Sunday. See below. I’ve posted here about Pop-Up’s imminent closing as well […]
With nearly two decades of publishing under its belt in our fair city, City Weekend issued a simple “Farewell Beijing, we will miss you all!” today. Linked to a clip from the Sound of Music. (Yes, […]
By Jim Boyce | Last night’s mission: visit the new First Floor. Revised mission after visiting 1F: check out other veteran Beijing bars and bar people in the Sanlitun-Gongti bar scene. A quick recap. The mommy […]
The new First Floor is a sprawling something-for-everyone venue in Sanlitun Soho that now needs to attract that everyone. Last night, as on my first visit a few weeks ago, I found a sparse crowd […]
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