Beijing Boyce

Canucks in The Volunteer…

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Canada Grade-Eh Week in Beijing — June 25 to July 1 — isn’t just about restaurants and bars owned, managed or staffed by Canucks. We also have friends of Grade Eh Week participating. Here are two more: Irish Volunteer and Flamme.

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THE IRISH VOLUNTEER

George Smith, Gar Nunan & Rob Korfage

The Irish Volunteer has supported the Canuck community over the years with its down-home atmosphere and steady stream of hockey coverage. I’ll never forget being among the 80+ people squeezed into the Volunteer for that epic ulcer-inducing gold medal Olympic hockey game between Canada and the United States in 2010. Took five years off my life. Anyway, during Grade-Eh Week, the Volunteer will have some food and drink specials. There will be drinks with Canadian content:

• Moosehead lager (rmb20)
• Iced Tim Hortons coffee (rmb15)
• Iced Tim Horton’s coffee with Bailey’s (rmb35)

Drinks with hockey themes:

• The Penalty Shot (rmb10): An ice-cold shot of vodka.
• Icing (rmb15): Vodka on the rocks with a splash of orange juice, grapefruit juice or tonic)
• Dump and Chase (rmb30): A small Tsingtao followed by a shot of vodka, whisky or tequila.

And pizzas:

• The Canadian: With bacon, pepperoni and mushrooms
• The Sedin Twins: Pick any two meats from among ham, spicy salami, pepperoni and ground beef (too bad they weren’t triplets)
• The Larry Robinson a.k.a. The Big Bird: BBQ chicken topped pizza. (George Smith says the Volunteer cooks its own big birds.)

(Note: Canadian and Sedin Twins pizzas are rmb50 for 9-inch, rmb66 for 12-inch, rmb90 for 15-inch and rmb122 for 19-inch. Big Bird pizzas are rmb45, rmb60, rmb80 and rmb100 respectively.)

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FLAMME

Paul Mathew

(June 26)

For one night only — Tuesday, June 26, from 5 PM to 10 PM — English bartender Paul Mathew will sail the Atlantic (figuratively, of course) to make Canadian-themed cocktails while wearing a Mountie outfit and reciting Gordon Lightfoot lyrics. He says that, along with all of Flamme’s regular drinks, you can request:

• The Canadian Cocktail: Whiskey, triple sec, bitters and simple syrup. (You might want to specify how dry you want it.)
• The Quebec: Whisky, vermouth (or Dubonnet red) and angostura bitters.
• The Canadian Old-Fashioned: With Canadian Club and maple syrup.

And if you order before 7:30 PM, drinks are half-price

See this post from other friends of Canada Grade-Eh Week, including Home Plate BBQ, The Box, 12SQM and Paddy O’Shea’s. And I’ll soon have a master list of everyone who is participating.

Canadian cocktails at Flamme