Another one bites the dust: Phil’s Pub closed
Phil’s Pub, the friendly neighborhood bar just south of the old Sanlitun South Street, has closed.
Reader EB informed me Friday that she noticed the pub’s sign gone. On closer inspection, she found a message stating that it had closed.
I called owner Phil, who with wife Sally has operated one of the more reasonably priced places in town for more than four years. He said the current landlord is taking over the building for redevelopment, thus denying many a patron from enjoying a GT while mowing down a pile of chuan’r delivered from across the street.
Phil is looking for a new spot. Watch this blog for an update.
Across the way, Black Sun and Dimple remain open.
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If I were a true scribe I would pen a 1000-word Pulitzer-Prize winning essay about how the demise of Phil’s represents the end of an era in Beijing.
But I’m not, so I’ll just say “that sucks.”
m-dawg,
It does indeed. Phil and Sally rank among the friendlier bar owners in town.
Cheers, Boyce