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…
Category Archives: Frank’s Place (’89-’05)
Sips and gulps: Ian Sherman benefit, Frank’s Place, Tao
Friday night (May 30, 7:30 PM) will see a slew of bands band together at a D-22 to raise funds for Time Out music editor Ian Sherman, who is fighting…
Readers’ Writes I: Don, Olli, Eddie and Jason
Welcome to Readers’ Writes week, starring the collective wisdom of 17 fellow bar-goers who answered my survey about their favorite Beijing drinking holes and the city’s general nightlife scene. They…
Frank’s 1.2
The oldest non-hotel bar in Beijing, Frank’s Place is back after a facelift and a change of scenery. A good portion of the city’s long-term expatriate drinking crowd showed up…
Beijing Boyce XIII: Opening Shots
Popular bartenders George Zhou and Echo Sun left Midnight bar two weeks ago, following a run-in with management, about six months after they left First Cafe, following a run-in with management….
Chillin’ at Pavillion
When Frank’s Place (between The Den and City Hotel) closed a while back, its two partners went separate ways. One opened The Pavillion two weeks ago while the other is…
Five questions with Frank Siegel
A reporter from this yet-to-be-named newsletter stopped by John Bull Pub last Thursday to chat with owner Frank Siegel, credited with opening, in 1989, the city’s first non-hotel bar —…
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