World of Beer , the big sports bar slash tap room on Fumin Lu (and then on Shiji Dadao ), closed up shop sometime last month. We passed by the other day and saw the padlock. An ex-employee confirmed both locations were closed for... Read more...
Word is that Guinness Gatehouse has closed. Their phone number is suspended, and people working with them have confirmed it's shuttered. Not for renovation. Fully shut, less than a year after opening. After opening... Read more...
The Scottish brewery finally makes it over here. Read more...
Lessons in drunkenness. Read more...
It's chestnut season. Apparently? From around October to about April, chestnut vendors set about preparing the little brown nuggets (they're called li zi, 栗子), seeds of the deciduous beech trees in the genus of Castanea, for cracking and consumption. Never been a huge fan of chestnuts. Chestnuts just seem so... I don't know. Rural? Like I'm meant to chew them open-mouthed, barefoot... Read more...
New locations of Joe's Pizza, Boteco, Heat, Xibo, Zeitgeist and pop-up Curry Gaeng! Read more...
So many — too many? — new bars. Read more...
If you buy into that sort of award hype, that is. Which I do! The World's 50 Best Bars did their annual awards shindig last night, seeing Connaught Bar in London take back its position as the World's Best Bar in this, the most cursed, godforsaken year in living memory.... Read more...
New features, fresh out of the pack! You might have noticed that we recently added Didi's ride-hailing service into the SmartShanghai Mini-Program. It's pretty straightforward: find a venue in the SmartShanghai Mini-Program, scroll down and hit the Call Didi button. This will open up... Read more...
Tsingtao — ol' reliable at banquets, hotpots and sidewalk FamilyMart parties, unless it's those little brown bottles in which case get out of here — has opened a flagship looking spot on Yuyuan Lu. It's called Tsingtao 1903 , referencing the year the brewery was established by Germans in... Read more...
Photographer, theater runner and professional Redbeard, it's Grant-oh! Read more...
Oh crap Halloween is like, tomorrow. Read more...
Cocktail bar Arch has closed! The northern-most bar of the Tastebuds empire shut its doors, putting an end to that particular run of high-brow cocktail chemistry and some truly excellent pasta... Read more...
Ken Walker reintroduces the Bubbacue. Read more...
With my mind on my tonic and my tonic on my mind. Read more...
How quick they grow on an all-alcohol ( and now hot dog ) diet.
The Taste Buds group started by cocktail bar impresario Daniel An (which, at current count, has included
But how sticky is the General Tsao's Chicken? Read more...
The fan-favorite roller disco migrates to Shankang Courtyard and adds daytime options. Read more...
Let it out. Let it aaaaall out. Read more...
Crisp. Refreshing. Surprisingly controversial. Read more...