Category Archives: Duck de Chine

Tuesday night pub crawl: 1/5, Tun, Maggie’s, Goose n’ Duck, The Den

A Tuesday night pub crawl is usually a bad idea, but sometimes – as with meteor strikes, power outages, and wedgies – it just happens. Such forays are increasingly rare…

The search continues: Maggie’s – gone but not forgotten

Although closed since March, Maggie’s still ranked as the second most popular search on this blog over the past month. (And I’m long overdue in mentioning this Newsweek post that…

Duck de what? Top five searches

I checked my site stats last night and found that new places represent most of the top-ranked searches made on the blog. In case anyone is interested, here are the…

Sanlitun roundup: Lugas, Saddle Cantina, 1949, Kokomo / China Doll

It sounds like the Kokomo / China Doll standoff is over for now. Two co-owners of Kokomo told me last Thursday that Tongli Studio management fixed the damaged lighting console…

Coming soon – 1949: The Hidden City

This is the fourth in a series of posts on places that I have recently toured and that are projected to open over the next few months. Previously: The new…