Sips and bites: Crobar, Room, Cheers, Cosmos, In Vito, Muse, and more
After false starts last Saturday and this Wednesday, Cosmos Hot Dogsis slated to open tonight in Tongli Studio, while the second branch of Vietnamese restaurant Muse is apparently to follow later this weekend. This is part of swift changes in the building that have included Juliette’s replacing Le Bistrot Parisien and Cheers announcing it will close this weekend. There are also plenty of rumblings about changes to come at other venues, though fans of Kokomo can at least take solace that the place has plenty of time left on its contract.
Ex-Blu Lobster chef Brian McKenna will see a delay in the opening of his new place, Room. Look for a launch just after the October holiday.
“Perfection takes patience,” stated the signs at the Crobar site in Solana. Apparently, it takes forever since the Beijing franchise of this club, scheduled to open last August, looks like it is giving up. A source inside Solana says Crobar has pulled out and the billboards on the site have been covered.
Meanwhile, In Vito hasopened in Solana, on the side facing the water. Expect to open your wallet a little wider than usual: the cheapest panini sandwich is RMB58, while a bottle of Heineken comes in at RMB38.
And All-Star will reopen tonight after closing shortly to do renovations.
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Raise your glass! Cheers to close this weekend
Cheers (map), best known for featuring live Xinjiang music on the weekends, will call it quits in Tongli Studio this weekend. This bar ranks among my ten favorites in Beijing. In addition to excellent music, it draws patrons of all ages, nationalities, and professions, offers an ecentric combination of pool table and nude oil paintings courtesy of own Leo, and leaves me with many a memory of enjoying a shot or two of Wild Turkey with Eddie O before he moved back to Iowa.
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