I posted earlier about new bars Anchor and Bungalow. Here are a few more notes on places recently visited during an unusually active few days for me. Salud celebrated its tenth birthday on Saturday night with plenty of booze, The […]

Anchor has opened just around the corner from that alley packed with BBC, Big Smoke, Corner Melt and Frost off Xingfucun Middle Road, due north of Workers Stadium. It’s still a bit rough around the edges but […]

I wrote last week about how, depending on whose opinion you accept, Bungalow might have the best cocktails in the universe. I finally made it to this hutong tiki bar last Saturday to try them. Bungalow […]

Bottle, Boot & Cigar–BBC–celebrated its first birthday on Sunday with free drinks and a Nepal earthquake relief fundraiser that raised over rmb8500. I asked Doug Williams, one of the co-owners, about the first year of business. […]

The city’s best cocktails are at Bungalow Tiki and Cocktail Bar. So says Julian Tavalin, former Beijing bagel whiz kid and now budding drinks aficionado. I’ve been pushed by Tavalin via weixin for a week to […]

I checked out the Jing-A brunch with The Village Grouch last Saturday, arriving just ahead of a wave of distraught Manny Paquaio fans. The “soft launch” deal: rmb98 for antipasto, main and dessert. Antipasto: You get a cutting board topped […]

I hoofed it to Beijing Riviera on Saturday night to watch normally responsible people–the management-position-holding townhouse-living kids-at-home crowd–play beer pong and get drunk. And not necessarily in that order. The sixteen-team tourney known as the International Beer Pong […]