Category Archives: El Nido

Sips & bites in Beijing: El Threedo, Malty Dog, 12SQM

El Nido III: Here’s hoping the new space Xiao Shuai is opening beside El Nido bar and across from El Nido restaurant will be called El Threed0. He would own…

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…

Must Tries Series: Xiao Shuai of Andingmen bar El Nido

Welcome to part twenty-nine of the Must Tries Series, where I ask people working in the Beijing bar and restaurant business for the top picks from their menus. This time…

Top Five Watering Holes: Amy Saltzman on Drum & Bell, The Door andmore

The Top Five Watering Holes Series is back and with someone who epitomizes the work hard, play hard ethic. Her 9 to 5 gig — actually, given the profession, I’m…

BrewDog beer now in Beijing (But you won’t appreciate it) ((jerks))

- Update: Simon Pendergast at Dxcel says El Nido and Heaven Supermarket are the first spots to stock BrewDog Attention beer drinkers of Beijing: The bottle labels of Scottish operation…

Top five Beijing bars: Restaurant reviewer Tom O’Malley

In the latest episode of Top Five Watering Holes, former restaurants editor for The Beijinger and current freelance writer Tom O’Malley lets us know where he grabs something to drink…