Sips and slurps: 1/5 Taverna, Maxim’s, OT Lounge
1/5 bar opened on Friday and joined Duck de Chine, Sugar, Noodle Bar, and 1/5 Taverna in 1949: The Hidden City. Happy hour will run 5 to 8 PM, Monday to Sunday, with standard booze, beer, house wine, and juices at two-for one prices, says Malcolm McLauchlan, GM of 1949. “The music is ‘old school’,” he says. “No ‘boom boom’.”
Maxim’s opened its second restaurant in Beijing yesterday. The first outlet opened in… 1983! Focused on traditional French cuisine, the Solana-based establishment can handle 90 diners upstairs and 50 more in the brasserie below. Expect a decor that, as described on Maxim’s site, “has as its central theme the image of fauna and flora married to feminine charm.” I talked to GM / sommelier Nicholas Carre last week about China’s wine scene and will soon post about this on sibling blog Grape Wall of China.
Fellow food and drink researcher The Village Grouch announced yesterday that “the Iced Tea Triangle is complete.” Sampling this summertime drink on the deck at OT Lounge, he confirmed it as the third of three points that include nearby iced tea havens TGI Friday’s and Peter’s Tex-Mex. “Peter’s has the best iced tea I have ever had,” he added.
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