Category Archives: Beer Mania

The OC: These guys are getting their own club.

Sips & bites: ‘Guerrilla theater’ in Beijing, plus 3sums, Fubar & Starfish

Redstar is organizing two “Whose Line Is it Anyway?” shows with four English comedians who will apparently make you laugh so hard your guts fall out and create a huge…

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Sips & bites: Beer Mania, Cantina Agave, Malty Dog, Le Petit Gourmand

Beer Mania plans to open a new venue — this time making it more restaurant than bar — but details are few and far between at the moment. What is clear…

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Sips & bites: Cocktail dinner at Temple, wine tasting at Palette Vino and Migas, new lunch at Beer Mania

~ Temple Restaurant will hold a “Spirited Dinner” on January 17 that pairs five courses with cocktails made by head bartender Frankie Zou. According to Temple, “All cocktails were crafted…

Beer Mania mania: New kitchen, 2-for-1 happy hour & more

Just browsed the most recent Beer Mania e-newsletter: This place has a lot going on and, in especially good news, has opened a kitchen and offers an excellent happy hour. The…

Beijing brew: Beervaria, Great Leap, Stumble Inn, Beer Mania, Tim’s, Bang Bang

Some news about brews… Sanyuanqiao has a new drinking hole as Beervaria opened last Friday in the basement mall of the Tian Yuan Gang (TVG) Center near the Beijing Hilton….

Change brewing on Sanlitun South: W, Beer Mania, ex-Cross Club, ex-Pink Loft

There is no rest for the wicked, they say, and the same holds true for the Beijing bar scene. (This raises theological questions that would best be discussed over a…

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: Mailbag!

Email: “Your beer gut must be even bigger than mine the amount of guzzling you must do in the interests of research. You should know that a hoary old favourite,…

Beijing Boyce XXII: Opening Shots

China Daily reports that Louisiana-themed The Big Easy will be chai’d on Sunday. Chaoyang Park authorities voided the bar’s 13-year lease, signed in 1998, in order to make space for…

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…

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)….