Category Archives: ASC

Wrap-up: The Hilton Food & Wine Experience

Rather than write a lengthy report about Saturday’s Food & Wine Experience at The Hilton, I thought it would be more fun to interview myself. Here we go: Was that…

Voss have vee here…

Still water still life It’s not exactly turning water into wine, more like adding it to the product mix, as ASC Fine Wines introduces Voss to China and Macau. Summergate…

Cru for Blu: Wine feast to mark new eats joint

Shangri-La’s Blu Lobster will celebrate its opening by pairing Haut-Brion wine with a six-course dinner by the restaurant’s chef, Brian McKenna. Expect to leave heavier in the mid-section but lighter…

Opening Shots 31, Part 3: Wine Word

Wine Word: Expect to see Edward Ragg and Fongyee Walker, former Cambridge University Blind Wine Tasting Society captains, about town as they have relocated to Beijing. / Ex-ASC Fine Wines…

On the Move: Phoebe, Karen, Campbell and Joop

The Hyatt’s Phoebe Lee is checking out of Beijing and heading up the corporate ladder with a move to… where? what’s that? wei? wei?… well, she was at the airport…

The Dinner and the Door

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been at a wine dinner where a patron has destroyed a door. I can now raise one more finger…

Happen stuff

Cafe Pause will feature German music and Jagermeister cocktails on September 23 (8 PM on), and co-owner Stefan Fleischer is offering a free shooter to anyone wearing Leiderhosen. / Crowne…

A glass of any other shape

My body has filtered its fair share of wine during the past decade, but it was only a few weeks ago at The Bookworm that I finally attended a Riedel…

(From Beijing Boyce XXII, first emailed on August 12, 2006) Beijing Boyce XXII / August 12, 2006 Opening Shots, including The Big Easy, Berber N, and Mojito / First Impressions:…

Beijing Boyce XXI: Opening Shots

Suzie Wong marked her birthday with a massive party last Saturday night that reportedly saw hundreds of people lining up at the door. / 5:19 Bar and Grill is starting…

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…

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…