Stretched resources this year meant focusing on my WeChat and Twitter feeds at the expense of the blogs. Sorry, doing the best I can to pass along useful info for food and drink fans in […]

I finally opened the snack package created by the Chengdu Food Tours guys in Sichuan and delivered to my door in Beijing for rmb128. Tried it at Pi Bar last Saturday night with three Chinese […]

I posted this on social media on April 26. Edited lightly. I really need to come up with a list of “top 10”–or maybe “top 100”?–Q Bar moments. The last martini has been stirred, the […]

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 […]