欢迎二十五年的部分必须尝试系列 ，我问的人拥有或在餐馆和酒吧的工作，他们最喜欢什么。 UP这个时候： 弗兰克·西格尔红杉咖啡馆 ，在克里中心和的建国门外外交，也开始弗兰克的地方大约20前，以及的前任约翰·公牛酒吧 ，和为1的葡萄酒，啤酒和烈酒爱好者。
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什么是红杉“必须设法”食品？
turkeyberry夹心 ：大多数三明治是咸的，但更多的是用奶油乳酪和蔓越莓酱偏甜。 如果甜度是不是你的东西，去土耳其熏肉三明治。
“必须尝试”喝红杉是什么？
我想说，我们的咖啡饮料，因为我们使用从丰泰咖啡的咖啡豆，总部位于西雅图的微焙烧炉。 他们迎合美国的五星级酒店，我们是用自己的咖啡在中国唯一的出路。
“必须设法”在北京的另一个会场的项目是什么？
西北Youmian村 （西贝莜面村） 颐和园 。 暑假期间，他们做一个巨大的房子沙拉，野菜和其他不寻常的成分。 在冬天，我通常订购的手工燕麦蒸面条来。 你可以从各种各样的肉汤浸泡面条，我经常去的蘑菇肉汤 。 非常充盈。
注：进入比赛的截止日期是11月3日（星期二），下午5点。
感恩节 ，美国版，是指日可待，我运行的重复去年的比赛 。 进入，让我们知道感谢在过去的一年，在北京发生的一件事。 这可能是什么从20,000,000找到爱你的生活在我们美丽的城市在FUBAR的欢乐时光饮料线四开幕。
作为优胜者，将得出一个评论。 一等奖：一个外卖礼节性的影响整个火鸡大餐烹饪卡珀斯和Yarrabank Cuvee 2004年 （更多每个瓶）和优伶站ED黑比诺2005年，礼貌 葡萄酒共和国 。
的方式，为那些寻求感恩寄托， 烹饪雀跃将成为11月26日在红杉咖啡屋 （光华路分公司火鸡大餐 地图 ）。 随着鸟，菜单功能冬南瓜汤 ，枫黄油和百里香烤蔬菜 ， 馅与蔓越莓，酸辣酱，芹菜，洋葱，苹果，和金万利和瓜籽脆 ，多（见完整的菜单 ）。
憩坐有两个 -下午6点至8点和下午8:30 -每人188元的个人火鸡大餐 （138元）和整个火鸡大餐 （850,000,000），从下午3时至下午6点皮卡。 保留一个位置，或一个取出来的鸟，在6532-5905或接触珍妮 jenny.zheng.cccintl 11月21日 @ gmail.com。
最后，我很快就会有其他感恩节晚餐，约镇举行。
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吉姆·博伊斯
我花了大量时间对葡萄酒的饮用和思想在过去的一年，并已出现意见不一，但快乐，我刚刚从定期评论员的一封电子邮件提醒我为什么我喜欢葡萄酒和周五晚上与弗兰克的8首歌曲北京品酒会中。 不是有很多地方，在那里你可以有一个即兴的软木塞与螺旋顶级比赛 ，尝试印尼的葡萄酒 ，并在一夜间遇到优秀comradery。 所以，这里是8首歌曲“就在这样的场合，但他似乎已经离开了椅子上跳舞的部分，经常打扮成圣诞老人 （是的，我有我的消息来源）。
“周五晚上，上周五晚在红杉咖啡品酒产生了一个意想不到的和有启发性的机会， 对抗软木螺丝顶部 。
“了因为晚上是” 自备瓶 “夜。 谁参加斌407赤霞珠2004 瓶奔富 。 软木是从14的珍品当中，有一个螺丝的顶端 。
“一个更勤奋的记者会去奔富来检查逻辑，为什么他们的优质葡萄酒的人都应该有两种不同的封......
“我们做了检查两瓶摆在我们面前的出处。 一个来自悉尼机场值班自由存储区，两个月前，而其他被解除在墨尔本的私人收藏 。
“我们的主机弗兰克·西格尔建议我们做的味道 ，为我们提供了第二个玻璃。
“这两个葡萄酒就像粉笔和干酪 ，茶，萝卜，还是帕瓦罗蒂和朋克-取其意象为你工作。
虽然两者有深紫色，几乎是黑色的玻璃外观，推出了一个完整的建议水果和单宁之间的精细平衡的香气 。 其他水果的香气，但没有复杂 。 在嘴里，第一次爱抚风味爆炸开始时，一个复杂的结构和淡淡的酸，表明它可能在地窖里呆了一个几年的长期缓慢完成我们的味蕾 。 另一个是一个普通的酒，没有复杂性和其兄弟几乎没有任何相似之处。 （或者是妹妹吗？）
他说：“我要揭示这几个资格 。
“ -我们已经”尝到了“关于这两个前十几葡萄酒 。 我看到没有人吐他们的口味，在任何时间，在晚上。
“ -我们有新鲜的眼镜螺丝顶级葡萄酒，但是软木塞，我们使用相同的眼镜，为前10个左右瓶。
“ -我们没有给任何两瓶播出时间 。 他们破获浇。 水瓶在某些时间可能有助于第二的葡萄酒。
“ - 此致带来两个407s之一。
“因此，哪个是哪个？ 我们有14品尝 ，一些与味觉成熟，有相当先进的技术技能的人。 但判决是一致的- 在软木酒辉煌岁了，已经发展成为一个伟大的葡萄酒。 下铝的酒没有做过的事情，在其三，四瓶。 它是真正的停留时间扭曲 。
“组感叹，我们不得不为插件既不吉姆·博伊斯感谢！ -编者注]，也有北京的大使里卡多·杜阿尔特软木那一夜。
“顺便说一下，我们当晚另一个惊喜。 印尼白葡萄酒一瓶，提供品尝。 阿迦白和从巴厘高地，标签敦促我们不要到这个葡萄酒酒窖。 但它是罚款- 轻微的苹果/柑橘味道，但精心打造，将是一个长期缓慢的周日下午库塔海滩上完美“，这是一个实地考察的议案吗？” - 编者注]。
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软木，阿莫林卡洛斯·德热苏斯的采访？
没有名字的故障 ：塞住葡萄酒在中国的赵勋
在那些日子里，11时开始品酒的行列上星期五上午，当我们的味蕾被认为是他们最好的，在凌晨3点结束，第二天早上 ，当我的钱包肯定是在最坏的情况。 感谢菩萨，这样的日子是短暂的。 行程，没有特别的理由， 相反的顺序 ...
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Q吧，我遇到了我的好友O型区，四年前在第一家咖啡馆 ，Q吧的业主2 - 乔治和回声 -然后工作。 因此，它往往是我们晚了终点。 这意味着它周围的时间我第一次喝，有自提价只是在奥运会之前：一个马提尼跨越，如果没有十字架，价值线60,000,000。 O型区下令杜松子酒进补，我有大农场主的冲床，第三次合作，雇主， 拉尔夫 ，给了我们尝试了他的新菜- 香肠和薯条 。 尼斯啤酒节... -
约一半的酒吧，ichikura -这将是六十几席-我们得到了舒适的麻木 。 我问阿方特别为调酒师。 从来没有听说过它。 我写下的配方 。 他仔细察看，然后前往酒吧的尽头之间在思想刮伤了他的头部和混合饮料交替。 结果：非常可口。 他像往常一样，打开“ 梁天堂 ” - 杯垫大小的光照耀下栏的透明的顶部和他倾一杯鸡尾酒。 -
Aperitivo我们钩住甲板上的最后一个表和观看的人群通- 行人交通仍然是晚上重 ，因为警方开始禁止这条街上的车辆。 的方式，而Aperitivo 酒 ，我的好友鱼发誓的玛格丽塔 。 -
惇 O型区和我决定在这里开会，从晚上9点到午夜女士免费饮料 -我不知道有关该交易的其他酒吧的感觉！ -在一个良好的人群带来的音乐虽然这类事件似乎有点沉重 。 不管怎么说，我坚持我的“ 潜伏 ”挑墩作为。 -
红杉咖啡这些星期五晚上品酒的回报吸引了许多常客 ，不少新人 。 主题：在澳大利亚西南部地区的玛格丽特河 。 我是不是太热衷于对任何五个选择，但也许我的味蕾被前面两个品酒会用尽。 在任何情况下，它是良好的星期五弗兰克回，因为我知道没有其他葡萄酒事件，创建这样的社区意识 。 -
frantoi Celliti Drei Kronen酒店1308我认识了老乡饮料研究员盟和GA喝葡萄酒在1949年：隐藏的城市，我们决定追食物。 我们走过来，大量新和人口稀少光顾屯附近的意大利联合Frantoi Celliti，发现它在5:15变暗 。 有人发现我们的脸贴在玻璃上，砰的一声打开门，说，5:30晚餐6:30或7点正式开幕。 嗯...
我们决定在Drei Kronen酒店吃1308，而不是。 交易：非盟和GA会先走，我会赶上回家后落我的笔记本电脑，拿起三个“免费啤酒”优惠券，我在Klubb高棉事件（同一雇主）收到。 一切都计划：我到达时，他们已经有杯啤酒和香肠的板，我给了优惠券的女服务员。
该法案似乎有点沉重，当它到达。 我们很快就发现了原因：它携带的三瓶啤酒的重量 。 解释：我们没有出示抵达券 。
没有人提到 ，当我的优惠券交给吗？ 号是否有这样的规则上出现的优惠券？ 是否有意义，创造优惠券，以鼓励人们来，然后创建一个坏印象，没有履行他们吗？ 我们坚决建议他们考虑的政策后，等待工作人员和管理的Scrum随后，我们发现我们的条例草案降低 。
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手头上的1/5 Taverna的约70名来自金州酒厂加州葡萄酒协会组织在1949年中期下午品尝：隐藏的城市。 此人看到试图 访问所有这些表，混在人群里的分销商，记者，餐馆，消费者花两小时。 谈论加州梦（ 详情 ）。
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紫云楼，我率领约10至此附庸风雅和严峻市中心的餐厅，为澳大利亚葡萄酒事件。 之前我们采样了13下从向下的葡萄酒 ，包括奔富和亨施克高端的选择，我们有一个关于...... 茶的教训。 什么原因？ 链接中国和澳大利亚两个国家分享一切从物理性质，化学性质，享受传统的争论深受人们喜爱的饮料。 在市场营销方面，把它复杂满足温暖和模糊性 ，值得其自己的岗位。 下星期一...
第4部一系列对北京居民享受饮料（或两个）。 这一轮是饮料的质量控制专家保罗·阿德金斯 。
第一荣誉奖哈瓦那酒吧 。 它有可能成为一个伟大的小酒吧，一旦人们发现它。 装饰精美，具有优良的饮料选择，一起从家里带一些华而不实的音乐，“十一诫 。 管理只需要挂在那里，并得到一些营销发生。 但不要急于 - 有时也很高兴有我自己的地方。
即将在5号，在通力干杯 。 便宜的啤酒，伟大的新疆音乐 。 但最吸引我的（艺术）的功能，是世界上最糟糕的台球桌 。 这相当于疯狂高尔夫池，但找齐得分，所以这是由我确定。
咏叹调 现货数量4。 也许是因为我是澳大利亚人 ，我一贯的咏叹调 郊游是星期五晚上。 回到部落的根，它总是伟大的，说“你好”“队友，谈论生活中的重要的东西- 板球，无足轻重和sheilas的 。 咏叹调 ，得到了较高的评价，但澳洲商会恒佳酒吧组织者已踢出奥运会。
红杉咖啡是在咏叹调 逆许多方面。 ARIA提供部落根，红杉给了我一个机会，以满足来自世界各地的朋友。 只要我去那里，我很容易满足熟人从斯洛文尼亚，法国，美国，爱尔兰，德国 - 弗兰克甚至让加拿大人在弗兰克的星期五晚上葡萄酒品酒会是通常1 神奇神秘之旅 - 。我有的世界部分地区的葡萄酒从未尝试过的。 弗兰克和詹尼弗一直是友好的，走的时候打招呼，这是很好的。
二等奖去鞍Cantina的 。 我爱音乐，卷饼 ， 饮料和甲板 。 但他们的台球桌是太新，与真正的表面 - 所以我往往会失去更多的时候。
然而，热门的地方去一个私人的小地方 。 它放养的一切，我喜欢喝，和音乐，我可以根据我的感觉。 这是一个点，在那里我可以静静地坐着，放松一下，或享受公司的朋友。 这是沙漠中的绿洲-但它是我的酒吧，在家里 ，和它是我走到哪里，当我不镇。 不仅如此，但是酒保有在城里最好的玛格丽塔 。
最后，我要放下了Maggie的鬼票。 为什么死了这罪恶的巢穴？ 因为我和我的女友用爱去沿和bopping音乐 。 几个小时在舞池有一个花的夜晚。 确保它得到了“夜女士”抵达时有点单薄，但他们从来没有任何地方去附近的舞者。
我们期待着看到它在奥运会后重新开放。
以前：
钱德勒Jurinka ，当地面
凯文沉 ，T3航站楼
史蒂芬Schwankert ，SinoScuba
由于Sanliltun红杉咖啡出口星期五晚上由弗兰克·西格尔举办葡萄酒品尝，我试过葡萄酒来自北美 （加拿大，美国），南美（智利，阿根廷）， 亚洲 （中国，日本）， 非洲 （摩洛哥，南非）， 欧洲 （许多国家，包括斯洛文尼亚-两次）， 澳大利亚和新西兰 。 我试过白 ， 红 ， 玫瑰，波光粼粼的和甜葡萄酒，几十个品种和混合 ，并参加一切从中国的葡萄酒阿根廷马尔贝克盲品 。 最重要的是，我知道许多星期五晚上的“ 常客 ”，无论他们是葡萄酒专业人士或只是球迷的葡萄。
因此，它是不满新闻三里屯红杉关闭的最后一个周末 。
另一方面，它是幸福的消息品酒会继续在红杉的光华路出口 （日坛公园附近）。 事实上，它可能会吸引更多的人，下午6:30开始和许多大使馆，媒体，企业接近。 在任何情况下，三里屯红杉，过去18个月曾葡萄酒界提出了玻璃。
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好的，酒吧，和无线 ： 红杉咖啡馆
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行政决定扩大“罩”的高跟鞋-嘿， 如果香槟生产商可以做到这一点 ，我为什么不能呢？ -我修改我最近咖啡站的建议名单 。 我定义为传统的工体，三里屯走廊说，吸油烟机，但我对地方缝，因为它是轻快步行10分钟，从我的工人体育场附近的垫。
这带入倍太平洋咖啡 ，我参观了三次上周。 一个友好和主管人员，强大的无线信号，内部舒适的椅子和充足的休息外， 价格合理的咖啡 （19,000,000大型酿造）和食品（22,000,000）与鸡和牛油果烤帕尼尼博伊斯一个快乐的博客。 唯一的缺点： 如厕需要到上面楼层的电梯之旅。
注：在建外SOHO的多地板太平洋咖啡也是一个不错的无线选项。
另见：
正如我洗牌的街头咖啡前最近的一个早晨，我的突触简要发射和激发这种思想-如果有人问我，建议我在三里屯，工人体育场罩的地方，抢到了Java杯，他们会是？ 关闭我的头顶，这里有四个选秀权。 （顺便说一下，我没有咖啡的专家，所以如果有人有其他的建议，让我知道，我会给他们一个尝试。）
担任的Le Petit美食家的美式咖啡 （15元人民币） -一个很好的价值的饮料在玻璃，用勺子手柄和空间，从而节约每敲他们的器具，在地板上的第五晚餐。 （液化石油气（LPG）是一种很好的休息的地方，只要员工不玩，“怎么回事？”混音CD）。
咖啡圣·洛朗卡布奇诺 （30,000,000） -这个周末早午餐最喜爱的大小和泡沫化的标志。 检查此视频成的泡沫慢慢消失，像一块方糖 ......呃......呃......目瞪口呆的乳齿象下沉英寸到英寸的泡沫更新世沼泽一块方糖，慢慢变成泡沫消失在黑暗的糖蜜，厚的深度 。
38). Lavazza咖啡的启示“（8 10元） -食客可以标记上他们同样积极的钱包，集午餐（开始〜30元38），这可笑的低价饮料。
红杉咖啡厅的大型美式咖啡 （22,000,000） -一个相当大的咖啡在美国微，焙烧炉，很好地洗了这个地方的百龙滩杯。 工作人员是友好的，在这里，虽然硬表面不相称的数量意味着它可以得到吵。 [注：三里屯红杉已关闭;其他分行光华路和顺义。]
对于那些希望享受大自然，的Aperitivo（你可以看街上的生活）， 乐Bistrot PARISIENNE（同上）， 莱斯旅游怨妇 （同上，第二，虽然这个地方往往爆音乐）和一个宽敞的屋顶（ 书虫 ）其他的选择。
没有早晚辛普森的名人酒吧抓取比啤酒和巧克力品尝会出现高CAL雷达。 德哦！
在任何情况下， 红杉咖啡馆将放弃平常的星期五晚上品酒和五个比利时啤酒和巧克力 （100元人民币），而不是功能的样品。 与弗兰克的RSVP在frank.siegel @ gmail.com / 13701-178-073。
（注：如果你喜欢巧克力末，和你住在北京 ，然后检查伊利斯丝带的组Chocojing的 ，但我敢肯定，她有她的盘子足够本周致死英语 ）。
他们说，有没有免费的午餐这样的事。 但是，你可以去饿了，即使你有钱。
我就冲进人力车昨天中午塔克星期二 （40,000,000玉米饼，酸奶油和莎莎的良好部分）。 我上楼，发现了一个建筑队的台球桌附近的嗡嗡声和冲击，所以我退到楼下，抓起一把椅子，弹出打开笔记本电脑。
我打电话给经理，找出发生了什么事，并了解到，被关闭的地方。 我错过了门上的牌子做其他所有人 - 十多人民 - 表明，在20分钟，我坐在那里。 无论如何，人力车应该有打开它的侧甲板，今天是正常工作时间从下午4点
由于玉米饼，我在不久的将来，不，我决定去附近的启示 。 我提前打电话，如果无线 - 最后一次看到，这不是 - 被告知“应该的。”这不是。
我收拾我的笔记本电脑，去糖 ，在1949年：隐藏的城市 。 在这一天的地方有无线和食品，看似一种罕见的组合。 我有鸡肉凯撒沙拉（32,000,000）和咖啡（2500），这两者是很好的。 等待的工作人员是有点过分殷勤和无法识别，如“水”和“厕所”的英语单词，但不够友好。 恼人的是，该法案，发现10％的服务费，在咖啡馆......。
今天，我计划去圣·洛朗咖啡厅午餐。 幸运的是，我叫未来的地方，因为封闭，而厨房和菜单大修。 CSL将打开这个周末。 幸运的是， 鸡蛋的本笃会留在菜单上，虽然会有一些新的配方以曲折。
我为鞍Cantina的领导，才想起它是不开放的午餐平日，重定向自己卢加的 。 这个地方也正在建设中。 我看到了靠山吃卷饼，但没有看到任何雇员。 我大喊：“你好”，回到厨房，蜷缩在地上，每个人都在激烈讨论的东西，所以我离开了。
在两周内第三次，我结束了在红杉咖啡 （三里屯分支）。 的BLT（30,000,000）是美味的汤，和一个大型的美式咖啡（22,000,000）。 幸运的是，不收服务费。 唯一的缺点：红杉是坚硬的表面，从而在次大声。
花园书籍现在是开放的红杉咖啡厅 （光华路支行）提供又一城当场放松了咖啡和一本书以上。 店接管以前举行Tim的德克萨斯烧烤的空间，在此之前， 约翰牛酒吧 。
有很多关于中国的书籍，虽然这些对旅游的Y系列类型，以及海明威，阿特伍德，凯鲁亚克，厄普代克，加缪，格里沙姆，国王，往往等。 福特长官的球迷会发现道格拉斯·亚当斯“终极Hitcherhiker的宇宙”，而北京奥巴马粉丝俱乐部的成员可以拿起男人的回忆录-我父亲的梦想。
食品和饮料的爱好者也会发现一些不错的东西，包括拉鲁斯Gastronomique烹饪学院，美国的专业厨师（第七版），休 - 约翰逊（Hugh Johnson）如何享受Wine.There，也是哈里·G.法兰克福的“胡说” - 老板说他在他的上海分行已售出约500份。
艾伦Ujcic：“欢迎斯洛文尼亚！”
最近红杉咖啡星期五晚上聚会阿兰·Ujcic安排第二次品尝的葡萄酒从他的家乡-斯洛文尼亚35人聚集。 事件在红杉去年类似的品尝。 ujcic似乎很享受的夜晚，除了继续唱歌我的阿尔巴尼亚歌曲的WAG狗的修订版本。 和Slo-VE-NI-A，SLO-VE-NI-a，它的A-DRI-A-TIC接壤......“
在任何情况下，两种葡萄酒被誉为奥地利附近地区和来自意大利的方5。 一个人在房间里取样的基础上，最爱似乎是。
有几个人还列举了自己喜欢的和黑比诺2003栎获得一些好的意见Scurek玫瑰2006（桃和草莓口味）。 红军往往遭受过多的鞣酸和没有足够的水果。 品酒费用每人人民币100，包括奶酪，面包，各种肉类，三明治和巧克力蛋糕。
从白人...
约35品尝表明了
它确实毗邻亚得里亚海上的！
艾伦Ujcic：“你想了解更多，不要你呢？”
斯洛文尼亚品酒：葡萄酒地图（点击放大）
我一直在我的笔记本电脑在搜索点，提供体面的食品，饮料，和在线访问轮 。 这是我冬天的一部分四个无线总结 。 （以前的人力车 ; 的Le Petit美食家 石舫 ）
红杉咖啡厅 （光华街）
好
- Tasty coffee , brownies and sandwiches – tuna pita, steak and cheese, and, highly popular for some reason, “turkeyberry”
- Plenty of plugs means plenty of places to sit
- Service is generally OK
- If you want to work amid journalists , this is the place to be in Beijing, given that many bureaus are located nearby
- Garden Books is opening on the second floor, which means you can take a break from your screen and get reacquainted with paper
The bad
- Too many hard surfaces means the place gets noisy
- If you leave any time between 5 and 7 PM, expect to struggle for a taxi
The wireless
– The signal is good. Surf to your heart's delight in the smaller room (non-smoking) or larger one (smoking allowed).
* Sequoia Cafe has an outlet in Sanlitun North (home to Friday night wine tastings) and a kiosk in Shunyi .
Next: The Bookworm
Browns replaced by a restaurant called Revelations? A place called The Rickshaw becoming a hotspot? Large-scale outfits RBL, Rui Fu and nhu biting the dust? Good Chinese wine popping up in bars, restaurants and five-star hotels? They're all part of Beijing's 2007 nightlife story. A few highlights from that tale, as seen in this blog…
January-February
Now, *that's* a topic for a blues song
Backed by Handel Lee (The Courtyard, Three on the Bund), featuring live Chicago blues bands in Icehouse , and lacking obvious signage on a street heavily visited by tourists, RBL sinks in Wangfujing and drags down more investors than you can count on your fingers. The venue is expected to resurface this year in Lee's next project – The Legation . Perhaps, the best take on this is from a reader .
See Meltdown at Icehouse ; Icehouse: Did It Stand a Snowball's Chance?
Dang, my tanktop is at the cleaners
My first pub crawl of 2007 is with Eddie O . We hit Cheers (Wild Turkey and live Xinjiang music), China Doll (people watching), Swing (great band but minimal toilet facilities; as Eddie says, “They want you to buy the beer here and process it somewhere else”) and Browns (featuring what seem to be bit players from The Dukes of Hazzard or Talladega Nights).
然后，我渴望葵花籽
而不是让一个粗鲁的手机使用书虫挺举提高我的血压，北京博伊斯（v2007）使用空洞的谈话， 玩游戏 。
请参阅选择沙鼠！
他甚至开始喜欢汽酒
弗兰克·西格尔认为他的第一个每周一次的品酒 2007年在红杉咖啡厅 ，有四个葡萄酒和来自加拿大的5个奶酪。 在未来的一年中，他将建立全市最好的葡萄酒社会，因为他涵盖六大洲的VINO，组织垂直，品种和盲目品酒会，酒商和酒厂业主带来了，光顾的分销商的广泛。
买2送1 ...嘿，等一下！
布朗执政“一年的酒吧”即将成立一周年-特别不好，旋转人员和未完成的装饰建议的地方是在下降，需要得到其行为 。 半年以后，这个地方是封闭的，其内容烧毁，其管理合伙人的下落是个谜。
既不做参考“熏肉”
从danwei.org一个页面，我性网站 ，看它是否会产生交通。 我学习，故意包括错别字 - 即改变Tim的德克萨斯烧烤添的性别肛门烧烤 - 不起作用。
如果有人需要使用一些质量内衣...
通讯分拆这个博客达到其第三十三届版和... 10万字 。 图书交易，现实电视节目和报纸专栏优惠纷至沓来，一群88鸽派不断盘旋我的行踪，成千上万的妇女，他们的内裤扔在舞台上，和全球的和平/婴儿潮随之而来。 或者，我开始在未来的10万字的工作。 这是这两个之一...
Please save the “leaded or unleaded” jokes
My mission for 2007: find seven decent Chinese wines that you can buy in Beijing for less than 700 kuai total. My first blind tasting : during Chinese New Year, with ten wines, seven tasters and a few clear winners. (Note: the best wine glass deal is at the Flower Market, where 22-ounce, thin-rimmed, Bordeaux-style Stone Island beauties are 10 kuai or less.)
See Say Grace: The search for seven good Chinese wines, part 1
All in the name of science
The Bourbon, Rye and Whisky League (BRAWL) meets at Tim's Texas BBQ (now Sequoia Café) for a blind tasting of Kentucky Bourbon, Irish Whisky, Scotch and Canadian Rye. The Rye (Alberta Springs) edges the Irish Whisky (Bushmills) as favorite.
Hints of minerals, notes of worms
Campbell Thompson gets down to earth and provides wine advice for an Inner Mongolian woman who subsists solely on dirt. Think about “terroir”, says he.
See A Shovel-full of Your Finest, Please
Or perhaps it's a sprouting potato?
My long-standing discussion with Eddie O as to whether the Jagermeister mascot is a moose or a reindeer continues into the New Year.
Last Wednesday was one of those Beijing days…
My apartment building is a monstrous mouth , every unit is a tooth, and a deranged dentist methodically scrapes, hammers and drills each for a month, before starting all over again.
It's the kind of nightmare from which one awakens – to the soothing vibrations of jackhammers, no less – when the jerks two floors above spend week after week renovating.
A bad way to start the day, but this one looks okay: a meeting with a wine industry guy, a slew of fun emails to write, and parties at a friend's company and at Block 8 for “ the ten most influential people in Beijing .” (In a major oversight, yours truly was not nominated, but as they say, to forgive is divine.)
Sequoia Cafe
Beijing's road system forgot to take its city-sized ex-lax today, so I arrive 20 minutes late for my meeting. Actually, it took longer to cab it from my home near Workers' Stadium (35 minutes) than to walk it (30 minutes).
My friend is not here, so I call … You're stuck in traffic, I bet! … You're not? Well, that's lucky … I see, you realized half an hour after our meeting is supposed to start that you can't make it… No, that's okay, I love riding pointlessly around this city with a driver whose breath smells like dirty diapers. One of those days… anyway, I spend the day at Sequoia and drink enough caffeine to wire a baby whale. At 5:20, I figure out the logistics of getting home, changing into a suit, and returning just south of here at 7 PM. I decide to walk.True to form, the key components of Beijing post-work traffic are in full play:
- Buses, trucks and “put-put” vehicles puff out clouds of exhaust (check)
- Hundreds of pedestrians walk against the lights (check)
- A few hardy ones go kitty corner across a dozen lanes of traffic (check)
- Some drivers pull into intersections on yellow lights and ensure cross-traffic is blocked (check)
- Other drivers lean on horns even though the cars in front of them are stuck (check)
- Pedestrians scream into cell phones so they can be heard above the horns (check)
- Three-wheeled bikes piled with massive loads of cardboard and Styrofoam weave about and introduce an added element of danger (check)
- The city's collective stress level rises another point and its collective arteries shrink another micron (check)
One world, one dream (with a soundtrack of jackhammers and car horns)…
LG Towers
Suited, I leave home and take a cab at 7:05, destination LG Towers. The trip takes an hour . Add five minutes to find the right tower and floor, and I arrive at the office 20 minutes before the event ends. Here's the best part: the party is on Thursday, which is tomorrow, rather than on Wednesday, which is today.
A lone employee is at the office. I apologize for disturbing her, explain my inability to comprehend the seven-day calendar, and leave a note for my friend. Bummed out, I leave LG Towers and spot…
Kenny Rogers Roasters
Less than a week ago, Special K had a hunger for roast chicken and we wondered if The Gambler , as we know him, had a franchise in Beijing. And he does! Things are looking up. I go in, sit down, and decide to play the safe hand and to order the restaurant's namesake meal: the original roast chicken .
“ Sorry, 15 minutes ,” says the waitress. Hmm, a roast chicken place with no roast chicken ready. Granted, it is a bit late, so I decide to wait.
“ Not 15 minutes, 40 minutes ,” chimes in another waiter about 15 seconds later.
As Kenny sang, “you gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.” Well, you also gotta know when to roast 'em . I leave and head to…
McDonald's
I once went a decade without eating at Mickey D's, but I am hungry now and combo number seven , displayed on a big poster, looks like the solution. I approach the cashier, say “number 7″ in Chinese and point at the poster. She has a deer in the headlights look. I say it in English and point again. Not even a blink. I hold up seven fingers . NOPE。 Finally someone else comes over and takes my order and soon I am scooting about with my tray looking for a place to sit.
Unfortunately, I eat near two people in their late twenties on what I guess is their first date. Not first date with each other, but, given the looks of them, first date ever . They are uncomfortable being across from a member of the opposite sex, especially at a distance of under ten meters, and I am a perfect diversion from their unease and played-out conversations about cell phone accessories , anime, Super Girl contestants, or whatever.
“ Look, a foreigner ,” says one, and points at me. “Yes, a foreigner,” says the other, and stares. They blush, but continue to look and make reference to me. It's been a trying day, so I walk over, jam a chicken McNugget into each of their nostrils, draw a ketchup mustache beneath, stick pickle slices on their cheeks, and hoarsely whisper in Mandarin, “ This is considered foreplay in New Jersey .” Actually, I made that up. Instead, I made a huffing sound and left. Little did I know, things were about to get worse – or better, depending on your perspective.
In part 2, Special K shares his fashion secrets, we drink bubbly at Block 8, neither of us makes the “most influential list” and a magazine editor yells at me.
Sequoia Cafe in Sanlitun offers the most imaginative, enjoyable and affordable wine tastings in Beijing. 时期。 Last Friday, I tried seven Austrian and German wines, munched on appetizers and chatted with wine distributors, a winemaker and plenty of friendly folk – all for 50 kuai. The tasting of eight Slovenian wines and the tasting where every attendee brought a bottle of wine and some cheese were also memorable. I can only see things getting better once Sequoia's two decks open (to get on the event mailing list, email frank.siegel@gmail.com ).
With an exhausting week behind me, I was going to call it an early evening after trying those wines. Fortunately, a new friend from Siberia steered me from evil. We ended up checking out:
- Kokomo : This place looks a bit better every time I visit, though the closed kitchen and our grumbling stomachs made this stop a quick one, as we headed to…
- Apertivo : It was packed, but comfortable, with an earthy feel and a calming rumble of conversations as background noise. More than a dozen wines are available by the glass, from 35 kuai, and my Sangiovese was a sizeable pour. The calzone hit the spot.
- Cheers : We popped our heads in to find the usual cast of characters and the band getting ready to unleash some Xinjiang music.
- China Doll : The second floor was getting crowded by 10:30 PM and I always enjoy propping my elbows against that soft, sloped bar edge and sipping a drink. China Doll has some promotion whereby two people who kiss for ten seconds get free drinks. 接下来是什么？ Spin the bottle? Truth or dare?
- Q Bar : Though it was busy, we wrangled two seats at the bar. As for drinks, I had my favorite of the year, an Alfonso Special, and then a Strawberry Margarita, which someone bought for me (I can guarantee you, this is not a cocktail for which ye olde Beijing Boyce parts with cash). I also tried a splash of Caol Ila 18-year-old single malt, which inspired me to rewrite my will and demand that I be embalmed with this liquid… Note 1 : I ran into Trevor K , who makes the best burgers in town and will (hopefully) again organize, with Kenn , a few BBQs on Q Bar's deck. Note 2 : The usual DJ was off, sparing us the dance music. Instead, his replacement had the good sense to play Peter Schilling's Major Tom, Talk Talk's It's My Life and numerous other rarely heard tunes. Q Bar owners, this music is good! I repeat, this music is good!
- Browns : The bar was less crowded than usual, but the vibe more than made up for it, as did the 20-kuai Guinness, Kingfisher and Beamish served from the bathtub out front. It'd take about 10,000 words to describe the weirdness at Browns, so two brief sketches will have to suffice. First, there was a scraggly haired guy on the bar top, with biceps the size of Christmas turkeys, lots of tattoos and a baseball hat, whose dance routine consisted of pointing at his crotch, pointing at the crowd, and pulling his baseball cap over his face as though he were crying. For reasons that will confuse scientists and therapists for centuries, this stimulated numerous female patrons. Second, there was a girl on the bar top, who has obviously done some modeling, and she shook out her hair and jerked her lanky body about like a hyperactive vogue-ing insect-robot – it was better than it sounds and mesmerizing in strobe light. Also, being an empathetic person, I think I pulled a calf muscle just watching that display…
(By the way, what's with the mini toll booth, they've set up on the street that goes past The Bookworm on the way to Browns? See below)
On Saturday, after doing my best to develop my carpal tunnel syndrome by answering about 70 emails in the afternoon, I went to a going away party for one of my favorite bloggers . Weirdly, I found myself sitting around a coffee table not only with him, but also with this blogger , this blogger , this blogger , this blogger and this blogger . Being the junior blogger, I didn't know what to say, so I got on my Blackberry and left comments on their sites (kidding). Actually, this blogger earned his place in heaven, should I ever be on watch duty the day he approaches the pearly gates, as he showed up not only with a bottle of The Balvenie, but also one of Talisker, and later cracked open yet another The Balvenie before finishing with the equivalent of a dessert wine after a long and hearty “meal” of single malts – a 12-year-old Chivas. A smooth finish to a fun evening…
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 Marketing Director Campbell Thompson has headed to Australia to begin work on a Master's in Wine Marketing, but will return to Beijing in a few months. Adam Steinberg will join ASC as communications director and step down from his volunteer position as co-organizer of Beijing Wine Club (BWC). Jenn Hinkle , who has been active in the wine scene, will become more involved in BWC. / Capone’s is offering two-for-one on two white and six red wines by the glass, as well as all alcoholic drinks, from 5 to 8 PM nightly. / Cafe Europa offers seven wines by the glass (40-45 kuai per) in its regularly rotating lineup. It has started a “lazy Sunday” breakfast menu (10 AM-3 PM): fruit juice, toast, grilled tomatoes, baked beans, two eggs with bacon or sausage, and free flow coffee or tea, for 50 kuai. Other options include pancakes with maple syrup and yoghurt with fruits, walnuts and honey. / By the way, Opener , two flights up from Cafe Europa, is a sedate nighttime getaway. The drinks are pricey, but this spacious artsy place offers a dozen bottled beers and a small Whiskey collection, mellow music and comfortable seating. / As for wine tasting events, Sequoia Cafe is continuing its excellent Friday night gatherings, with this week's featuring Slovenian wines (6:30 PM, 50 kuai, RSVP required: call Frank at 13701-178-073). The Beijing Wine Club will hold a tasting of Australian boutique wines on March 3 at Hao Feng Cellars in the Henderson Center (7 PM; 150 kuai). ASC will have a Riedel wine dinner at the American Club on March 13 with company CEO with Maximillian von Riedel (6:30, 888 kuai, price includes four wine glasses). Summergate will hold a Chateau Lafite wine dinner at Aria on March 20 with winery CEO Christophe Salin (7 PM, 1888 kuai).
Opening Shots comes from the Beijing Boyce biweekly e-newsletter. To subscribe, send an email to beijingboyce@yahoo.com with “Eat, Drink & Be Merry” in the subject line.
Phil, of Phil's Pub fame, has returned to Beijing for good after a long stint at Q Bar in Qingdao . / Sequoia Cafe in Sanlitun is drawing a fun crowd to its frequent Friday wine tastings. Email frank.siegel@gmail.com to get on the invite list. / Trivia addicts in Shunyi can get their fix at the Pomegranate on Wednesday nights. The bar had ten teams at the last quiz. / Months ago, it looked like Serve the People would soon open in the space where once stood Zing by Doodoo . Things have been in limbo so long I'm almost expecting a Serve the Doodoo or Zing the People to open. / Best ice cube in town: that huge Rubik's cube-sized chunk that Q Bar uses for its Bourbon. / Thanks to HS for pointing out that one of the wines reviewed last issue is Church and State , not Church and Stone. / Goose and Duck , soon to relocate, was stuffed, so to speak, as that's Beijing 's held its Super Bowl party there Monday.
Note: I'll start sending out the newsletter at lunch and after work today, and tomorrow.
Pictures, pictures, pictures – that's my friend Kraft-D's advice for this blog. Last night, I dug up a few dozen from a November 2005 trip to Taillan , a winery just outside Beijing. Sequoia Cafe owner Frank Siegel and the American Community Club co-organized the trip (for full details, see Tying One on at Taillan ).
General Manager Alain Leroux (above, right) led our tour of Taillan, a ten-year-old Sino-French venture. He said that the vines are grafted to North American rootstalk to protect them from phylloxera, a kind of plant lice.
He also gave us some insights into producing wine in China. “At the beginning, French people thought it would be an easy market, but no.”
With that cleared up, we headed inside and learned that the vats can store up to 100,000 bottles worth of wine. Taillan has enough equipment to process thousands of bottles per hour , often doing bottling for other companies.
Our little group could never handle even an hour of Taillan's output, but we were ready to try. After Frank unpacked a picnic lunch of cold cuts, cheese, breads and potato salad, we worked our way through what Alain called “drinkable” wines , including a 2000 Chardonnay, 2003 Rose, 2003 Malbec (my favorite), Merlot, 2001 Pinot Noir and 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon.
Drinkable, indeed!
A dozen of us gathered on January 5 in Sanlitun Sequoia Cafe to try four wines and cheeses from Canada. As I had just returned from two weeks in The Great White North, it was a nice way to ease back into Beijing life.
All four wines came from the West Coast and first up was Blasted Church Chardonnay , which had some citrus and sour apple on the nose, though it was a bit acidic for my liking. (How did the winery get its name? Sequoia owner Frank Siegel says that workers dynamited the church in the 1920s to loosen its nails and more easily dismantle and move it.) Sticking with the religious theme, we had a Church & State Merlot that featured raspberry, blackberry and other dark fruit aromas, followed by an Inniskillin Merlot , with a stronger bouquet, very fruity flavors and a hint of candy apple. Last up was the Sumac Ridge Cabernet , which seemed a bit bland to me, though to be fair I think the cheeses were overwhelming the wine by this point. Frank said it would go with wild game, such as moose or lamb, and conceded that street kebabs count as the latter. (By the way, attendee S. Heath said the best way to cook moose, in case you were wondering, is to get a no-bone cut, pierce it with a knife, stuff the hole with garlic, sear the meat shut, and layer it with bacon before cooking. This is the “The Jack Buck Way,” apparently after a big game hunter in Canada.) While all the wines received praise, the Chardonnay seemed to be the overall favorite, while I gave top marks to the Inniskillin.
As for the cheeses, the Moonstruck Beddis Blue was the best I've tasted since a Shropshire Blue at a Beijing Cheese Society event way back in November 2005. It was creamy, not too pungent, slightly nutty, and melted in the mouth. Jenn Hinkle , who is writing about wine in Beijing (more on this next issue) put it this way: “It tastes like a barn of cows smells.” (She meant that in a good way.) The other cheeses included a Comox Triple Cream Camembert (a mild, naturally pasteurized cheese with near-cheesecake texture), a Quebec five-year-old cheddar (good mouth-drying stuff and not too crumbly) and the rosemary-topped Salt Spring Island Chevre (a stinky, gooey goat cheese with a texture approaching yoghurt). Interestingly, attendee D. Heath said Salt Spring Island, off the coast of British Columbia, has been home to hippies and thus into organic food for 30 or 40 years, but is now becoming popular with the moneyed class and this is causing conflicts.
This tasting cost 160 kuai per person and was one of the regular Friday wine events organized in the Sanlitun branch of Sequoia Café (email frank.siegel@gmail.com to get on the mailing list). Kudos to Holden Jang , who not only designed Sequoia Cafe and Tim's Texas BBQ , but also brought the wine and cheese from Canada.
