Category Archives: Top Club

Beijing Boyce XXVI: Opening Shots

TRIO has taken The Park Grill and The Cellar down a few notches and now offers a more affordable wine list (see Hanky Panky at Frankie’s below). / An investor…

Beijing Boyce XXI: Closing Shots

Happy 65th birthday to ASC Fine Wines co-founder Don St. Pierre Sr. (and a happy 100th to his liver!) / Congratulations to Browns boss Philip Cheung, who successfully proposed to…

Something about Sanlitun

When Sanlitun South was razed last year for redevelopment – incidentally, nary a single foundation has been laid on that plot of land where two-meter high weeds now stand guard…

My two kuai: Pre-TBJ awards bar picks

that’s Beijing announces its annual bars and clubs awards tonight. Below, in capital letters, are the places I think deserve to win (all in my extremely humble opinion, of course)….

Beijing Boyce XIX: Closing Shots

Richard Millar, the ex-Aria chef who was working at Pavillion, has moved to T-8 in Shanghai. / Torres has launched its website at www.torreschina.com. / ASC Fine Wines will hold…

TGIF tour

I teamed up with Stellar-Go, Kemba and P-Linny last Friday night for a tour of some Sanlitun bars. We started at a familiar spot – The Tree – which is among the…

Beijing Boyce XVI: Closing Shots

that’s Beijing held its restaurant awards, at Champagne bar, on May 11. Hatsune, Alameda, Steaks and Eggs, and Green T. House came away as multiple winners. Bellagio took top prize…

Top Bar: Chocolate martini sugar high

The Orange-Chocolate Martini (50 kuai), recommended by Alex (Phil’s Pub) comes with a chocolate-coated glass rim. Good, but sweet. A friend criticized the dry vodka martini as “10 percent vodka…

Beijing Boyce XI: Mailbag!

Email: “Good gay clubs – I have a friend coming in for three weeks who most definitely is (I most definitely am not) and I wanted to point him in…

The battles of Sanlitun

It’s a dog eat dog, bar beat bar world and Sanlitun is no exception. At least three pairs of establishments are going head to head there. Martini madness The soap…