Cats and dogs, licks and howls…
Music lovers: head to Shunyi’s The Pomegranate this Saturday for the “pet sounds” of blues bands Black Cat Bone and The Rhythm Dogs. Join host “Humble Mike” as The Pomegranate marks its…
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Notes of coal, hints of asbestos…
The other day I placed my nose above a glass of wine and picked up an intriguing aroma of car exhaust, construction site dust, coal, and asbestos. Then I realized that…
Hooters “owl” set to open…
Hooters, the American restaurant chain widely known for its top-heavy “Hooters girls”, is set to open in Beijing on September 12 on Workers’ Stadium East Road, just a hop, skip…
Wine Workshop: Lecture notes…
I attended seven lectures and tasted fourteen local wines on August 9, the second day of the International Workshop on the Wine Market in China, held in Beijing. I put…
Squatter’s rights…
There’s the toilet, but where’re the dumplings? We won’t swim in your toilet if you don’t pee in our pool goes a famous saying. It’s one that might be adopted…
A swell of summer fun at The Stone Boat…
The Stone Boat continues its summer schedule on Thursday with “boat folk”, featuring “earthy Chinese roots music” at 9 PM. Friday night brings three continents together, with a tasting of…
A garnish! And the Cocktail World Cup winner is…
The mission: take cocktails made by ten top Beijing bartenders on the spot, grade them on creativity, taste, aroma, appearance and so on, and determine which entrant goes to New…
One world, one dream, one hundred bucks…
Stock up on Qingdao next July – according to China Briefing blog, some higher-end bars and restaurants have “done deals with international events organizations during the Olympics, and sold rights to use…
And a one…
Once stationed near the southern gate of Chaoyang Park, Latinos was chai’d in the front end of 2006. It reopened in a matter of months in Nanxincang, near Dongshishitiao, and celebrated…
The class of 2005…
Yesterday, I babbled on about changes in the former Browns-Bookworm-Midnight triangle. It’s due west [Actually, it's east; thanks to Chris for the correction - Boyce] of the former Sanlitun South bar street, which…
Is that Nashville in the background?
About 18 months ago, a number of fun places opened in the area just southeast of the former Sanlitun beer mug. You could spend a night popping into The Bookworm (brand-spanking…
Sunday service showdown: Bookworm vs Rickshaw
A thread at thatsbj.com has some unkind things to say about The Bookworm as does a former co-worker (she’s written several times via Skype, “I’m in Bookworm and no one’s taking my order”),…
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