Category Archives: La Baie Des Anges

Forget the bottle, buy the bar: La Baie des Anges for sale

The list of reasons for going to Houhai is pretty short: it includes to go skating in the winter, to go for a boat ride in the summer, to hang…

Making a wine bar work: Olivier Six of La Baie des Anges

Despite all the talk about growth in the wine sector in Beijing, wine bars that can endure and draw a crowd are few and far between. La Baie des Anges…

Weekend ramblings: Lotus Lane touts, LBDA, Huxley’s, Obiwan, The Boat

- The economic crisis seems to have hit the Lotus Lane lady bar touts in Houhai. How else to explain that as I walked from Starbuck’s to La Baie des…

A Baie des Anges birthday

Saturday marks the first-year anniversary of Houhai area bar la Baie des Anges. Get into the birthday spirit with some cake, a quiz and quality music, plus specials on wine…

Jazz out Houhai way

Here is the second of two recent tips delivered straight to my mailbox and now straight to you… Carolyn O reports on a bar she says doesn’t make the listings of the…