Paddy O’Shea’s will switch from its slate of EPL, rugby, and hurling (the sport) to American football on Sunday as it teams with NFL China and the San Diego Cheerleaders for two hours of fun, from 7 PM to 9 PM. The evening will include dancing and mingling, a replay of the opening game of
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Sips and bites: Hi NFL cheerleaders at Paddy’s, bye Sequoia on Guanghua Road, one-kuai drinks at Fubar
I just ran into Robin Howlett, the man most associated with Souk at Chaoyang Park, and he narrowed the site of his future place from somewhere in China down to the Shuangjing area.The veil of secrecy has been lifted. Howlett says to look for a two-floor pizza joint called Bang! Bang! somewhere near The Brick
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Bang! Bang! pizza to open in Shuangjing in two weeks
- I visited a handful of places at Solana on Wednesday, including relative newcomers Cabare and Swiss Restaurant and Bar, and will have more on them soon. For now I’ll rave a bit about Cafe Bellissimo. Opened by a group that includes two doctors from Australia, the place offers a cool environment, good coffee, and
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Cafe Bellissimo: A reason to go to Solana
The River Club should get plenty of attention from hardcore foodies given that two of the forces behind the place are Marco Sacco and Carlos Sacco of two Michelin star restaurant Piccolo Lago in Italy. The Chinese mover and shaker is Eric Wang while the GM is Simone Capello and the kitchen is headed by
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Piccolo Lago in Pechino: From ‘dumplin’ to dessert at The River Club
The Spanish evolution of Nali Patio continues with the restaurant portion of Migas open today on the top floor. Migas joins The Taste of Spain retail shop (ground floor) and Spanish restaurants Niajo (third floor) and Carmen (next door).
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Spanish evolution: Migas restaurant open today in Nali Patio
Renovations finished at Fubar last night and just in time since this Workers Stadium joint will mark its sixth one-kuai drinks special tonight. Held the first day of each month, the special runs from 6 PM to 8 PM and this month will feature pints of Tasmanian Devil Margaritas for RMB1.
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Tonight at Fubar: New look, RMB1 Tasmanian Devil Margaritas
What’s your favorite Italian restaurant? When I ask my Italian friends, many respond L’Isola–in the Pacific Century Building –due to the combination of food, service, and price
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Italian job: L’Isola’s Masili to open LM Club in Central Park
[If I could figure out how to download photos from the camera I have today, this space would contain a shot of a small bar with a sign featuring a moose and Canadian flag. You'll just have to imagine it.] The Box is the name of: (a) a Canadian band, (b) a Canadian destination for
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Drinking inside The Box: A Canadian bar in Beijing
- This Sunday marks the second anniversary of the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games. I missed most of the opening in 2008 due to a seven-hour Beijing bar crawl with Nicolas Carre, so last Saturday I decided to find a bar with a big screen where I could show a repeat this Sunday
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Beijing Olympics flashback: Join China Doll, Fubar, George’s for charity fundraiser
In the latest episode of Top Five Watering Holes, former restaurants editor for The Beijinger and current freelance writer Tom O’Malley lets us know where he grabs something to drink after he’s had something to eat.
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Top five Beijing bars: Restaurant reviewer Tom O’Malley
It’s zaijian to mojitos and ni hao to margaritas as Fubar in Workers Stadium mixes things up for its monthly RMB1 drinks event. Since April, the deal has been RMB1 mojito martinis from 6 PM to 8 PM on the first day of each month
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RMB1 drinks at Fubar: Zaijian mojitos, ni hao ‘Australian’ margaritas on August 1
A heads up for fans of Mosto: the third-floor Nali Patio restaurant will close for renovations for a week, from Sunday, August 1 to Monday, August 9. Meanwhile, the team is aiming to open the second establishment, Modo, on the third floor of Sanlitun Village in early August. Says Oscar Teran, who is handling the
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Modo aims for early August opening, Mosto under renovations August 1-9
- Members club The Apartment is slated to reopen in mid-August under the same name, says a source involved in the project. On the top floor of Tongli Studio, across from the entrance to Kokomo, The Apartment opened last year with 25 founding “flatmates” who were given access to everything from private parties to the
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The Apartment: Back in August with more members, stricter flatmate rules
- While that superb two-for-one pizza deal at Gung Ho ends this Saturday, there is good news for those who have become fans of these pies but think they will be too expensive at regular prices: As of Sunday, Gung Ho will increase its pizza sizes, but keep the same regular prices.
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Gung Ho 2.0: Bigger pizzas as of Sunday
A handful of restaurants/bars are on the verge of opening on the third floor of Sanlitun Village, though some of the projects have teetered on that edge for a quite a while due, say numerous sources, to administrative issues (factor #157 to be considered by anyone who thinks it would be “fun” to open a
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Five new spots in Sanlitun Village: Flamme, Modo, Stumble Inn, Queen’s, Leaf
I gave the World Cup a red card after the Japan-Cameroon game for boring the life out of me. After a few days off, I got back to watching matches this weekend. Places visited… Friday night Serbia 1, Germany 0 Kiosk: Standing-room only crowd that included citizens not only of Serbia, the homeland of gregarious
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World Cup in Beijing: Kiosk, George’s, Ned’s, 1F, Aperitivo
- George’s opens tonight in the southeastern corner of Workers Stadium barely three months after the man in question, George Zhou, left as a co-owner of Q Bar a few blocks away. Last night, about 50 people were on hand to “soft open” this spot, just across from Le Quai, and while the menu only
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By George II: Zhou’s new cocktail joint to open tonight
The World Cup has been a nice diversion but now it is time to get serious about sports as the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics face off in game seven of the NBA finals, with tipoff tomorrow at 9 AM. If, at season’s start, I had to pick two teams I didn’t want
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NBA fans in Beijing: Where to watch Lakers-Celtics game 7
Pyro: A branch of this Wudaokou staple has been planned for the Sanlitun area and the pizza joint set to open early next month in the old Alba restaurant spot in China View is or isn’t it, depending on who you talk to. It is if two sources, including one involved with another China View
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Sips and bites: Pyro Pizza, Tryst, 12SQM, Blue Frog
- A fixture on the scene after more than five years in Sanlitun South, first with the former First Cafe and Midnight Cafe, then as a co-owner at Q Bar, George Zhou plans to open his new spot, George’s, within the next two weeks. With the painting and flooring finished during the past few days,
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By George: Former Q Bar co-owner to soon open new venue