The Real Deal Contest: We have a winner…
The Real Deal Contest drew more than 25 suggestions as to where the city’s drinkers and eaters can get the best for their buck during these trying times. Unfortunately, only one person can take home the Wolf Blass wine, the Riedel glass, the Yunnan corkscrew, the Blu Lobster apron, the glory, and other assorted sundries (see full list). To this end, I asked John Gai of Palatte Wines and Palette Vino to pick the winner. And that winner is: aardvark_3.
Thanks to everyone who left suggestions. I plan to announce another contest tomorrow. In the meantime, here is the full list of “real deals”:
Kro’s Nest: “We Hate Tuesdays”, with two free kegs of Tsingtao at 6PM, followed by RMB5 pints until 10 PM - Boyce
Tun: Ladies drink for free on Friday nights – beijingdaze
The Saddle: Fajitarita Monday, with fajitas at RMB35rmb and Margaritas at RMB30 – beijingdaze
Carrefour: Wine fair, with hundreds of wine samples for free and 20 percent off retail – beijingdaze
Pyro’s: Happy hour, 10 PM-midnight, RMB25 pitchers of beer, RMB15 mixed drinks, and RMB50 six-shooter tequila deals - Stuart
La Bamba: Happy hour with RMB5 draft - Stuart
Paddy O’Shea’s: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 9 PM, bottled beers and house spirits, two-for-one upstairs – GP
The Den: From 5-10 PM, half-price pizza and beer – Judge Panda
Domus: From 5-8 PM, complimentary antipasti spread – Judge Panda
Pekotan: Lunch box - pick jumbo prawns for all three servings, RMB28 - Daniel LaRusso
Asamuka: All-you-can-eat lunch, with sashimi, steak, sushi, etc, RMB150 (includes one drink) - Daniel LaRusso
Club Sandwich: Pepperoni pizza (RMB25) and iced coffee (RMB10) or Qingdao (RMB10) – Blake
IKEA: One hot dog, one ice cream cone, one coke for RMB10, or three hot dogs and one ice cream cone for RMB10 – Chad
The Saddle: FajitaRita Mondays, with Margaritas and Fajitas at half-price – Melissa
China View: Teppanyaki place (3F), all you can eat and drink for RMB150 – aardvark
Club China Doll: Ladies drink free on ladies night, with RMB1000 prize split between best dancer, sexiest girl – Boyce
Tun: Thursday night, live music, no cover, two beers for RMB15 - Boyce
Aria: Happy hour, two-for-one drinks and free snacks – Boyce
Matsuko: RMB78 lunch, with all you can eat, including sushi, desserts, and beer – Chad
Hash House Harriers: RMB20 for beer before, during, after the run; RMB60 gets the beer and a meal (hash.cn) - Arthoof
The Rickshaw: 6th of each month, all-day ‘Hair of the Dog’ party with half-price drinks (same deal at Cinco de Drinko at Saddle Cantina, 5th of each month) - Blake
Blue Frog: 25 Tuesdays, all standard drinks for RMB25 - Blake
OT Lounge: During November, Brooklyn Lager at RMB20 per bottle - Blake
The Boat: Thursday “Alt Dance Party”, two drinks free between 9 and 11pm, no cover - Blake
The Aubergine (Shangdu Soho): RMB36 lunch includes soup, Danish Roast Pork with potato wedges, “something that looks like clover, and rich, fat sauce” - Mazolinc
Mesh Bar: Thursdays, two-for-one cocktails, 7-11 PM - Weeble
The Rickshaw: Taco Tuesday, during happy hour; RMB40 for three tacos, 1 pitcher of Margaritas for RMB60 - aadrvark_3
Xiao Mai Bu: RMB2 beers - aardvark_3
Note: You never know when a deal will end, so it is always best to check before you go.
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Wow! This is incredibly helpful. Yours remains the only China blog I like aside from my own, Danwei, and Granite Studio.
I must ask: I saw the “real deal contest” and assumed that meant a contest to serve “real booze”. While that is clearly not what the contest is about, I wonder if the bars on here all serve the real deal (or at least attempt to)?
Xiao Mai Bu is a really cheap place. I wonder how they can do it when all of the little stands with the same Chinese name are selling beer for 2.5 or more these days (or am I going to the wrong ones?).
Hey I thought the Kro’s Nest is my deal?
@ Nels,
Thanks - that’s high praise indeed!
Re the booze: Maybe some places serve fake stuff, but I also think many think they were poisoned when, in fact, they simply saw how cheap the drinks were and consumed WAY too many of them.
Cheers, Boyce
@ Kevin,
Huh, how is it your idea? Is this kind of like how Al Gore invented the Internet?
Anyway, this is a good time to publicly announce your plan to eat an entire large pizza at Kro’s as I blog while each and every slice goes down. Name a date and time, mister!
Cheers, Boyce