By Jim Boyce | Beijing has lots of dimly lit dark-paneled speakeasy style bars staffed by black tie-adorned mixologists making decent drinks in robotic style for connoisseurs wearing flip flops and cargo shorts and requesting […]

By Jim Boyce | A half-dozen Beijing bars and restaurants are featuring events and specials in the week leading to World Baijiu Day on August 9. A look at the slate so far. (Get more […]

By Jim Boyce | Which bar almost certainly has the best Premier League fantasy crew in the city, probably the nation, possibly the planet and potentially the universe? It’s Paddy O’Shea’s and manager Paul is […]

By Jim Boyce | The Tiki Bungalow, the Beijing source of potent and palatable drinks, thoughtfully designed menus and carefully curated kitsch, a model Magnum P.I. poster and a stoic inflatable shark named Higgins, and […]

By Jim Boyce | CHEERS continued its happy march forward today with the official opening of a shop in Shuangjing. That inches the company close to 20 outlets in Beijing to go along with about […]

By Jim Boyce | It’s baozi. It’s pizza. It’s baozza! I’d just finished mowing down the half-price habanero chicken at Q-Mex last Thursday night when I ran into the guys behind Baozza, a portmanteau—or portmantou, […]

By Jim Boyce | After The Den closed and left a gaping hole in the late night eats scene, my picks in that part of town have been between a hotpot session at Haidilao or […]

By Jim Boyce | The Tiki Bungalow, source of potent and palatable drinks, thoughtfully designed menus and carefully curated kitsch, a model Magnum P.I. poster and stoic inflatable shark named Higgins, and countless reckless nights […]