Daily Archives: July 11, 2012

Pass By Bar turns 13 tonight: Get a t-shirt and beer for rmb50

When I moved to Beijing in 2004, I lived in a hotel for two months as I worked my ass off, hit the city’s bars and looked for an apartment,…

Mugs and Kisses: Unconditional Love Coffee to add sausage sandwiches, pulled pork & more

When Unconditional Love Coffee opened in 2008, it was an early entrant into the growing Western food and beverage scene in Shuangjing, and the man behind the place, coffee fanatic…

Beyond beer, whiskey and absinthe: El Nido to open restaurant in Fangjia Hutong

There are Beijing bars I tend to avoid if I want any hope of rising before noon the next day. One of them is Bang! Bang! in Shuangjing. What begins…