By Jim Boyce | The casualties of the Fangjia Hutong bricking last year included restaurant / bar Ramo and sibling / speakeasy Mimi e Coco. Ramo has since reopened in all its funky glory in […]
By Jim Boyce | Hundreds of whiskeys, gins, vodkas and rums. A trio of barrel-aged cocktails. Space for classes, tastings and plain ol’ drinkin’. Expect that and more from Straight Spirit, a booze shop that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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