Winging it: Bar Blu launches new food menu and deck
- Never underestimate the power of old technology like, say, posters. I stopped at Biteapitta last night after a Bulgarian wine tasting (more details soon) to fulfill a falafel craving…
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Sanlitun shakeup: Kai to be chai’d, Pure Girl in Tongli Studio, Bar Blu to do food
Word is that the strip of bars that includes Shooters, Butterfly, and Kai Club will bite the dust in the next few months and that the facing strip that includes…
Get happy: Bar Blu burger and beer bonanaza
People talk about the burgers at Union and Blue Frog. At Kiosk and The Rickshaw. And, in a case that seems to define the phrase “love it or hate it”,…
First Saddle, now Shooters?
Hot on the heels of a rough ride for the former owners of The Saddle (now known as Lugas), it sounds as if Shooters is having employee-landlord woes. This appeared…
Trouble in Tongli
“Due to reasons beyond our control we will be closed tonight. We hope to be open again tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenience.” This is becoming a mantra for Bar Blu,…
Browns: … Or Hate It?
This is the follow up post to Browns: Love It… No bar gets more hate than Browns (except Bar Blu, but that place deserves it*, and Maggies). Here’s a self-interview…
Wireless Winter Wonderland
I number among those poor souls without home Internet access. Getting online thus means packing the laptop, bundling up and heading *out there*. Here are three recent wireless experiences, followed…
Beijing Boyce XXIV: Closing Shots
City Weekend has published a Restaurant & Bar Guide that not only is good, but also is free! I have long griped about City Weekend, including to the managing editor,…
And the TBJ bar award winners are…
Bar and club owners and employees were out in force at the Kunlun Hotel two weeks ago for the annual that’s Beijing awards. More than 30 establishments took home prizes…
Beijing Boyce XXI: Closing Shots
Happy 65th birthday to ASC Fine Wines co-founder Don St. Pierre Sr. (and a happy 100th to his liver!) / Congratulations to Browns boss Philip Cheung, who successfully proposed to…
Something about Sanlitun
When Sanlitun South was razed last year for redevelopment – incidentally, nary a single foundation has been laid on that plot of land where two-meter high weeds now stand guard…
My two kuai: Pre-TBJ awards bar picks
that’s Beijing announces its annual bars and clubs awards tonight. Below, in capital letters, are the places I think deserve to win (all in my extremely humble opinion, of course)….
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