George Zhou was among the first people I met after my move to Beijing in 2004 and I saw him go from honing his mixology skills at tiny bar First Cafe to opening, with Echo Sun and Ralph Ziegenhorn, […]

  Breweries from eight cities in China, and possibly more, will gather at East Hotel on September 25 and 26 for the second annual Beijing Autumn Craft Beer Festival. Last year’s event was most excellent […]

Zeit Berlin will host a Saturday Bazaar on July 25 that looks like it will be a lot of fun. I don’t visit this sprawling German venue, with its dining areas and multiple bars and pool table […]

Look for the city to have a new sausage supply once Dustin Merrett of Windy City fine-tunes his links for market. Merrett gave me some samples on Friday: the photo above shows, from left to right, rabbit […]

Look for the more than a dozen outlets of wine shop chain CHEERS in Beijing to soon carry beer from craft brewery Shangri-La in Yunnan. The brewery, operated by a team of Swiss-Chinese, officially launched […]

I Screeched, I Nanaimo’d, I watched The Moose get loose for the last time. Good times on Wednesday night as Hockey Bar teamed with CCYA to hold a Canada Day keg party. This was the last dance for The Stipp–The […]

I remember well the Gung Ho launch party in July 2010 at The Opposite House. I’d been walking past that first pizza shop in China View complex many times during the previous month, and seen it […]

Ten photos and captions about drinks gulped, foods guzzled and stuff observed in the Beijing bar and restaurant scene…