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 […]

If you seek Monday night comfort food at affordable prices, check out the half-price deal at relatively new bar / restaurant XL managed by Jane Cui, who many know from her long stint at Nearby the […]

Veteran speakeasy Fubar will double as a live music venue on Fridays and Saturdays, says Justin Richardson, a veteran of the Beijing scene who formed the band Big Aeroplane in 1997 and is more recently known for projects […]

Centro, the first bar I visited when I moved to Beijing over a decade ago, offers good happy hour value. Two martinis, and well-made ones at that, for 80 kuai? That strikes me as around the […]

“DB Cooper” the man hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971 and — after ordering the passengers off, the authorities to load USD200,000 on, and, once back in the air, the skeleton crew to stay in […]