Union Bar & Grille in Sanlitun Village seeks entry-level employees to “learn the business from the ground up.” These include bartender openings: customer service experience a plus, English language skills required, and–this is my addition–Guinness-pouring skills essential.
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Job opening in Beijing: Union Bar & Grille seeks bartenders, more
Heathrow’s second largest airline bmi will be flying its full schedule during the forthcoming BA strike periods. Routes that bmi will be operating normally out of London Heathrow, that look likely to be affected by BA’s strike action include: Aberdeen, Amsterdam*, Belfast, Cairo, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jeddah, Manchester, Moscow and Riyadh.
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bmi operates full schedule and extends help to BA customers
Here are the unofficial results of the seventh annual The Beijinger restaurant awards, held this afternoon at Joy Luck. I typed them in when I wasn’t yapping with friends, sipping on beer, or giggling at quips by emcees Dominic Hill-Johnson of Plastered T-shirts and Ai Wan of Epic — I’ll list some of their best
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Beijinger restaurant awards unofficial results: Maison Boulud, Da Dong on top
Beijing Eats author Eileen Wen Mooney–who can obviously stand the heat, because she’s getting into the kitchen–has started Eileen Cooks. ”Classes are open to anyone who wants to learn how to cook Chinese and Western dishes and desserts,” she says. They are available four days per week, cost RMB600 for six, and cover “wholesome home cooking”–from
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First she eats, now she cooks: Get into the kitchen with Eileen Wen Mooney
All our favorite trips have the same thing in common: We return home with the sense that something foreign has now become familiar. Staying at Ka’ana Boutique Resort , with its focus on sustainability and cultural authenticity, helped me feel this way about the entire country of Belize . Set in the jungly Cayo District near the scruffy, bustling town of San Ignacio, Ka’ana is the first luxury spa resort in Western Belize
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A Belizean Sense of Place (Visiting Blogger to Belize Documents Her Stay at Ka’ana)
A big highlight and memorable moment for me was hanging out in the kitchen of Ka’ana Boutique Resort with the personable, talented and passionate Chef Sean Kuylen (pronounced kwee-ln), born and raised in Belize. With the bubbly enthusiasm of a little boy, he was bouncing around the compact space wanting to show me the ingredients he was using, tell me about his ideas for future dishes and have me taste a bit of this and and that.
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Not Just Rice and Beans (Visiting Blogger to Belize Shares a Highlight of Her Trip)
- What makes a strong drink at Twilight so appealing is that you truly need one after navigating that SNAFU known as Jianwai Soho to get there. The continued lack of prominent signage at Chez Legoland amazes me, especially since the powers-that-be decided it smart to have a villa number 5 and a building number five
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Twilight cocktail bar: 360 degrees of drinking pleasure
- I have known about shochu joint G-Zou in Sunshine 100 for a long time, but only made my first visit last night. The delay is due partly to inertia and partly due to memories of forced drinking sessions in South Korea that involved tossing back shot after shot of buck-a-bottle rotgut soju until someone puked
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Shochu at G-Zou: Seaweed, chestnuts, and taro in a glass
Sorry Rickshaw will shut the doors today at 5:00 pm. We will gladly continue giving service in the Saddle Cantina and Side Saddle… – Sign on The Rickshaw today – It looks like The Rickshaw might have deep-fried its last wing and mixed its last Margarita, at least in the present spot, given a sign posted there today and
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The Rickshaw closes: And the reality TV show continues…
- Passing along a quick note from 8 Songs that trouble seems to be, um, brewing at Nasca Cafe in Central Park between some of the stakeholders. He adds that the signboard that said “Nasca Cafe” is now missing the first word
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Sips and bites: Budapest, Nasca Cafe, Block 8, Steaks & Eggs, Pink Loft
- About 200 people are signed up for this Saturday night’s “brain drain” quiz at The Hilton, says Susan Clear of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, organizer of the event. The entry fee is RMB365, includes a three-course meal and free-flow wine and beer, and will see all proceeds go to Yearn to Learn, “a newly
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Brain drain: Austcham to hold charity quiz with ~200 people
I am glad the resolutions I made for 2009 did not include going to bed early because I would have broken that one about a dozen times already. The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of taking visitors on pub crawls, test-driving the new-to-Beijing “social media” vehicle foursquare.com, cranking out a few dozen favors,
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Late to bed: Apothecary, Maggie’s, Q Bar, Fubar, and more
No post on watching The Super Bowl in our fair city is complete without links to The Sweater Game that saw one of our fellow citizens cost the New England Patriots a perfect season and, for the gourmands, to some wine and beer pairings for wings and other football food. Done and done. The game
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The Super Bowl in Beijing: Where to catch The Big Game
- According to this site, the warlord Yan Xishan uses a Shanxi supercomputer to blog from beyond the grave on topics as varied as his appearance on the cover of Time as “China’s next president”, the “top 10 dynasties“, and recruitment efforts for his Juicy Pants Army (JPA). He also claims the ability to make occasional
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Top Five Beijing bars: Warlord Yan Xishan on Solutions, The Den, Phil’s, and more
After two weeks of offering free vodka-based drinks, Le Zazou held its invite-only official opening last Friday. The extremely heavy turnout meant long waits for drinks and coats as well as the inability of most attendees to see the much-hyped show. Not an auspicious start for a place already bucking the odds by opening a
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Ch-ch-changes: Le Zazou, Souk Lounge, Blue Frog, Stumble Inn
Anyone have RMB9000 to spare? That’s what it will cost to attend three upcoming wine dinners: those who tingle at the mention of Michelin-star chefs and have healthy bank accounts will be happy with two of them, while those who are also vino fanatics will find, as icing on the cake, a third with someone
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Who’s coming for dinner in Beijing? Nine Michelin stars and one First Lady of Wine
Five bars and restaurants are teaming up with Rotaract Beijing for a charity clothing drive. To participate, drop off any extra clean used clothes, shoes, and blankets you have to the following spots by January 30: Nearby the Tree (map) Salud – NLGX (map) The Bridge Cafe (map) Tim’s Texas BBQ (map) Istanbul (map) You can also drop clothes off at
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Charity clothing drive: Rotaract teams up with local bars, restaurants
A bottle of VB at Danger Doyle’s has more than doubled in price to RMB65. A bottle of same at The Den, about 100 meters away, is RMB25. Guess which place had zero customers when I visited last night
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Ch-ch-changes: Danger Doyle’s, D Lounge, Fubar, 12sqm, Souk One
Le Zazou, which has had a free drinks deal the past two weeks, will officially launch this weekend. Friday is an invite-only affair, while Saturday will see the doors thrown wide open
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This weekend: Zazou, Lantern openings; Black Cat Bone at 2 Kolegas
- Stuck stateside and unable to snap up some spiffy Septwolves socks, slacks, and shirts*? This may be one of the brands available to American shoppers when a mall called Amesia Plaza, funded by a Beijing company, opens in Milwaukee.
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Seeking Septwolves stateside? Beijing company to open mall in Milwaukee