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 […]
Sips & Bites
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 […]
Get down | Pop-Up Beijing’s final weekend features flea market, all-day happy hour
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 […]
Heaven was closed | Plus 10 other Beijing bar visits
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 […]
First Floor 2: Double the size, half the fun
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 […]
The new bar | Jack Zhou, Ah Jian to team on cocktail joint
By Jim Boyce | I can’t manage to follow the bar scene within a mile radius of BB HQ in the Gongti-Sanlitun zone let alone what’s happening in the entire city. But there are people […]
Paddy O’Shí’s: 10 promos as Beijing’s top sports bar marks 10 years!
By Joyce Bim | Our event research team has dedicated hundreds if not thousands of hours analyzing promotion ideas for Beijing’s best sports bar, Paddy O’Shea’s. Because that venerable venue will mark its 10th anniversary on […]