Monthly Archives: August 2010

Italian job: L’Isola’s Masili to open LM Club in Central Park

What’s your favorite Italian restaurant? When I ask my Italian friends, many respond L’Isola–in the Pacific Century Building –due to the combination of food, service, and price. Good news for…

Drinking inside The Box: A Canadian bar in Beijing

[If I could figure out how to download photos from the camera I have today, this space would contain a shot of a small bar with a sign featuring a...

Wudaokou: Helen’s Cafe, Solutions, Laowai’s Lounge

PDM just sent me an email me re some happenings in Wudaokou and it reminded me that I’m very much overdue for a visit there. I’ll try to head north…

Fubar: Sporting new wood tonight at Workers Stadium

- Like the gossamer threads of a spider web with a finite space in which it is suspended yet an infinite number of ways in which it might be woven,…

Butcher Steakhouse: Beijing’s biggest burger, and more

- Remember this post from early July? That promise to give us Beijing’s biggest burger has been fulfilled with last Sunday’s opening of The Butcher Steakhouse at the north end…

Name That Burger: And win eight pounds of beefy fun at Butcher Steakhouse

Update II: I held the draw with Butcher Steakhouse GM Kenneth Arrild yesterday and the winner is maotai. I’ll be in contact with maotai and charlie, who won the merit…

The Brick: Ten-kuai PBR, donkey pizza, President Mao, and more

- Pabst Blue Ribbon “tall boys” for RMB10. You don’t see that every day in Beijing but such is life at The Brick (map) during its happy hour. And one…

The heat is on: Flamme intros RMB50 all-you-can-drink Stella, two-for-one steak, cocktail specials

There is a saying in euchre: go high or go home. New steakhouse Flamme on Sanlitun Village 3F is doing the former with some hard-to-resist specials. Numerous people have already…

Bites and sips: Modo to open Sunday night in Sanlitun

Leaf and Flamme, Queen’s and Stumble Inn, the past month has seen a spate of places open on Sanlitun Village 3F, and now one more is coming: Modo. The second…

Sips and bites: Room, BJ Foodies, The Brick, Spirit It, DJ Chunky, Moosehead, Jenga Fries

BJ Foodies and Room restaurant are teaming up to raise funds for Compassion for Migrant Children (CMC) this Sunday. The charity meal includes starter, main, dessert, and two glasses of…

Buy a small piece of the Beijing bar scene: 12SQM for sale

Nanluoguxiang bar 12SQM will celebrate its third birthday party on September 4 with discounts on drinks and specials on Aussie beers, including Coopers  and VB at RMB15 and James Boags…

Cafe Europa: Beer and BBQ buffet on Saturdays

Protein and carbohydrates are key to a full enjoyment of life and Cafe Europa is providing both with an all-you-can-eat-consume special each of the next four Saturdays. The eats: steaks,…