I’ve enjoyed several menu tastings over the past two months, including at Niajo, The Rug and Q Mex, and will steadily post about them, starting with the following feast. Marcus Medina at Q Mex has long told […]

Closing nights for bars are like church at Easter or Christmas: The once-a-year and twice-a-year types appear, crowd out the regulars, and turn the place into a caricature of what you love about it. Such is life. […]

Tim’s Texas Bar-B-Q: This veteran bar and restaurant near The Silk Market was originally due to close at month’s end but has been given until the end of January to head for the hills — or […]

I have not yet recovered from the closing of The Den and now news comes the same fate awaits Ichikura, yet another place that would make my list of top-ten all-time favorite Beijing bars. My first visit […]

So you’re stuck in Beijing for Christmas and bummed about your sorry life. My friends, there are lots of chances to get into the spirit, including tonight. First, get to the Sanlitun area by about […]

Facing my first deadline-free day in months, and a fully charged battery after 13 hours of sleep, I decided to go with the flow yesterday and that ended up involving habaneros chicken, Sexy Biscuit beer, […]

Nothing will replace the 24-hour-per-day booze-guzzling pub grub-gulping people-watching scene of The Den. Yet, now that this veteran bar has closed, we must somehow go on. Thus, here are six nearby options for the post-Den era. First, a […]