Open bar: Q closure one-night affair
Q Bar had enough headaches from ongoing renovations in the hotel lobby below. Those became migraines after police closed the cocktail joint on Friday night. Fortunately, Q fans were not…
Monthly Archives: June 2008
It’s in the e-mail: Nightlife, bar, wine info coming up!
Many people have asked what happened to my biweekly email about the Beijing nightlife and wine scenes. Apologies all around – I am about a month behind with the latest,…
Beijing Olympics thought 11: Going, going, gone
For each of the 88 days until the 2008 Olympics, I will [try to] strip-mine my brain to unearth a thought related to Beijing and The Games. That’s one thought…
Sips and slurps: Cafe de la Poste, OT Lounge, I/5 Taverna, and more
Last night, I had a T-bone steak so big that it needed a postal code. The place: Cafe de la Poste. The price: 96 kuai. The context: We were two…
Get paid to eat: City Weekend seeks dining editor
City Weekend is in search of a dining editor to “cover the best of Beijing’s cuisine, high end restaurants and fine wines.” Media experience, decent writing skills and functional Mandarin…
Duck de what? Top five searches
I checked my site stats last night and found that new places represent most of the top-ranked searches made on the blog. In case anyone is interested, here are the…
Save your fen: Dinners with Daniel Boulud, Robert Joseph, Pascal Barbot, and more
Look under the bed, search the wardrobe and dig behind the sofa cushions because you might need every fen you have for these upcoming dinners in Beijing. June 28 (RMB4888)…
Second act: Hard Rock Cafe re-opens
The Hard Rock Café reopened last night after the completion of renovations begun during the winter. Expect a similar layout, but with framed back-lit guitars and other paraphernalia, though the…
‘The New Sanlitun’: Openings, closings, confrontations
Sanlitun North lived up to its rep as an infamous nightspot this past week, which is unfortunate given some of the fun places in the area – The Tree, Kokomo,…
Somebody give me a smoke: The pre-openings of Klubb Rouge, China Doll
Let me use the analogy of male and female orgasms to respectively portray the décor of Klubb Rouge and China Doll since these nightspots, which held pre-openings of sorts last…
Tasting time: Beijing
Upcoming Beijing wine-related events Thursday, June 19, 7-10:30 PM, Grand Hyatt Beijing, inquire re price Chateau Margaux dinner, with owner Corinne Mentzelopoulos; 5 wines, limited to 15 seats; by Aussino…
The Beijinger bar awards: Q gets its due
Q Bar won as “bar or club of the year” last night as The Beijinger magazine gave out its annual Reader Bar and Club Awards. Known for its cocktails, the…
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