Nineties Flashback: Foreign Babes in Beijing
Don’t worry Jiexi. I’ll get Nightman tickets somehow… – American Rachel DeWoskin played the vixen in a 1995 TV drama called Foreign Babes in Beijing that was seen by as…
Category Archives: Frank’s Place (’06~)
Football fun: Alabama-Texas national game, NFL playoff fantasy pool
If you weren’t able to get to Luga’s Villa and sign up for the City Weekend fantasy football pool earlier this week, you can get into the action tomorrow at…
Frank’s Place photo essay: 20th birthday party, tribute to Frank Siegel, the Devil Dog
- Frank’s Place marked twenty years on Saturday with a tribute to the man, the myth, the legend – founder Frank Siegel (note: he sold his interest in the place…
Frank’s Place turns 20: Free drinks, tribute to Frank Siegel, this Saturday
- Two decades ago, if someone said, “Let’s get a drink,” there was a good chance you would end up at Frank’s Place, then near Workers Stadium. Registered in 1989…
Beer Jing: 12 Beijing bars team up for an October brew fest
City Weekend and beer distributor Dxcel, known best for its Australian and American brews, are teaming up with a dozen Beijing establishments in October for the innaugural Beer Jing festival….
Beijing’s newest pub: The Irish Volunteer
The Irish bar contingent has a new member: Backed by Frank’s Place investors Graham Forbes and George Smith, among others, The Irish Volunteer is a cozy spot near a couple…
TRIO: contenders in two fell swoops
Two recent moves by TRIO remind me of the overnight transformation of the Boston Celtics into contenders – sorry, the NBA is about to start and basketball is on my…
Trouble in Tongli II, The Cellar and the Cave
Renovations were apparently done with super speed as China Doll is open again (see Tongli in Trouble). They had just enough time to change some light bulbs and buy new bottle openers…
New cellar dweller at TRIO
TRIO opened in May of 2006 and included: a reincarnation of the city’s oldest non-hotel bar, Frank’s Place, at ground level; a seventy-seat New York grill and piano bar, Park…
Back a-Glenn: An interview with Paddy O’Shea’s manager
He’s had management positions at The Pavillion, Browns and TRIO (Frank’s Place) during the past two years and now Gleann Phealan will soon be heading up his own place —…
Barroom Blitz: Mingle, White Rabbit, Paddy O’Shea’s
Mingle opened in the basement of Margherita, around the corner from Tongli Studio in the building formerly housing The Bund. Joop Shen, who’s bouncing about the Beijing bar and club…
Yes, but what about Bosh?
A marathon session with our company’s annual report last week has the ”YES, we’ve seen progress, BUT the following needs to happen” attitude oozing from my pores. In that vein, here’s part…
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