Oh, it’s been a long little while since my last “sips and bites” post. Sorry, been busy with work and World Baijiu Day and prepping for Maovember 2021–annual events like WE Brewery’s corn toss tourney […]

Dada is famous as a music scene hub but co-founder Michael Ohlsson is also quite the drinks aficionado, including of arcane tipples. (Case in point: we once shared a lineup of Ethiopian Shiraz, Canadian Cabernet […]

Bar-goers of Beijing beware: a wave of wackiness is set to wash upon your shores as That One Place will close on July 6 and set adrift an eclectic clientele in search of new destinations […]

Finally. A Sanlitun set lunch that evokes an all-time favorite, Migas, my go-to until the team packed up and left our neighborhood for Guomao nearly four years ago. Yes, there are many well-known spots in […]

Seeing lots of tweets these days about Larry The Bird, a new chicken joint beside Burger King in Taikooli South that involves those Josper oven evangelists from Spanish restaurant Migas. Larry The Bird reminds me […]

One of my favorite new stops of the past year is Duet Café / Simple Drinks, an unassuming spot near Dongzhimen where you can grab a mug of coffee by day or glass of vino […]

Our fine-feathered friends nearly saved veteran Gulou area club Dada with an, ahem, ‘coop’ d’etat. The club was facing imminent closure last month but the discovery by inspectors of an apparently rare pecies nesting inside […]