Beijing Boyce

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It’s Alive! First Cafe Flashback

November 30th, 2006 | Category: First Cafe, Opener?, Q Bar

Most readers are probably sick of me writing about First Cafe, but that place, when I arrived in Beijing in 2004, reminded me of all that was good in a bar - excellent cocktails, a fun clientele and great ambience. First Cafe has been chai’d, but its memory lives on in its former bartenders, George and Echo, who now run the very successful Q Bar, in its owner, Keiko, who is running the recently opened Opener? [no typo], and in this video I stumbled across when cleaning up files on my computer. It doesn’t really capture the mood of First Cafe, given that it was the one time I was in the bar during an afternoon, but that’s life. Click the pic below for the video or go here.