China has a growing number of quality wineries but finding their products on store shelves or restaurant lists is not easy. Good news, then, that Pudao Wines is listing bottles from three local producers, including […]

Needed a place last night to both meet my friend LB and enjoy good cocktails, and opted for happy hour at Janes & Hooch. This place has a buy one, get one for rmb 70 deal on […]

Wednesday is weekly chili night at Jing-A Taproom and the burning question is how spicy it will get this evening. Two weeks ago, the kitchen unleashed the heat with a sweat-inducing concoction that had me buying a second […]

Vietnamese Thai restaurant Purple Haze, due north of Workers Stadium, will mark ten years of business with ten days of specials. The restaurant, which opened on January 31, 2005, will offer all-day happy hour, as well […]

For more than a year, I’ve been hearing that Zeta in the Hilton Beijing will close and be replaced by a restaurant. And it sounds like the end is now a few months away. Given how much the food […]

The former Pinotage in Sanlitun Soho is now 1080 Restaurant and Bar, with the dining room transformed into a booth-like layout, the kitchen partly turned into a brewery, and the bar in back walled off. (Pinotage has since moved […]

The former Commix bar space that is sandwiched between BBC and The Corner Melt, and that I hoped would be taken over by one of those two establishments, has reopened as a chuanr joint. Patrons […]

~ If memory serves, and it might not given that we visited BBC (Bottle, Boot & Cigar) last night after a wine dinner, customers can now get the straight razor treatment on Tuesdays and Fridays from […]