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Malbec & Beef just opened in Beijing and, as you might guess, Argentina is the focus. My first question to owner Jorge Wang, who is well-versed in Argentine wine, including some wine-making experience: “Do you […]

Updated. During the first week of February 2020, as Beijing settled into its grimmest period of the COVID-19 crisis, Ignace Lecleir told me revenue was down 95 percent at his four-restaurant TRB Group, with several […]

Quarantined in your Beijing apartment and tired–if your cooking skills mirror mine–of dumplings for the twentieth time in twenty days? Our fair city has lots of good delivery options, including new ones courtesy of restaurants […]

I had my first restaurant meal in almost one month yesterday–a delicious three-course lunch at Hulu washed down with red wine and a coffee. Life felt somewhat normal for 90 minutes. I later posted photos […]

(Originally posted on my social media: beijingboyce on Twitter, Facebook and WeChat. Updated on February 14.) Beijing restaurants and bars are being hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. Many are closed. Some remain open, often […]

“You look like a romantic guy,” said no one to me ever. But I do like good deals, whether it is for meals, wines or more. And I know a lot of couples will be […]

The usually chaotic free-for-all blood pressure-inducing junction of Sanlitun South and Gongti North looked like this at 6 PM last night: Eerie. Especially as the Chinese New Year holidays should have ended by now and […]