Blog Tag - The Great Brickening

R Throwback Thursday: Whispers of a Brickening
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our 12-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
DP Cafe Culture Crushed: Sanlitun Venues Lose Extensions on Several Long-Standing Strips
One of the longest standing strips of restaurants in the Sanlitun area fell under the chai today as multiple venues in the north part of the...
Au Revoir For Now: Street Renovations Close Café de la Poste
Only a day after ominous scaffolding cropped up on Yonghegong Dajie one of the street’s most popular bars and restaurants, Café de la Poste (CDLP)...
Yonghegong Dajie Hit With Yet Another Round of Scaffolding
Less than a year after the Yonghegong neighborhood was granted the Great Brickening treatment, laying to waste numerous religious curios shops and...
Veteran Italian Café Aperitivo Calls It Quits in Sanlitun Soho
Though the Aperitivo team put up a noble fight, the veteran Italian café quietly ended its decade-plus run last week. A recent visit to their...
Fish Fusion Brings Hutong Vibes and Southern Chinese Seafood to the CBD
If you’re heartsick about the closure of your favorite Hutong hole in the wall, the sign for Fish Fusion restaurant will quickly catch your eye....
Beijing's 'Great Brickening' Encroaches Deeper Into Residential Areas
While “The Brickening” has so far mostly affected commercial properties, including wiping out many well-known and beloved food and beverage...
Popular Beijing Restaurant Ramo Suddenly Announces Closure
Lido restaurant Ramo — one of Beijing's most popular spots for pizza, pasta, brunch, and other comfort food — suddenly announced its closure today (...
Long Running Hutong Bike Shop Natooke to Close
[CORRECTION: Oct 31, 11am] Freda Fu, the head of sales at Natooke, has since followed up to say that the shop’s team will soldier on for as long as...
Hutong Favorite Fang to Close Sep 17, Invites You to Say Farewell With Free Shots All Weekend
Bad news Beijing: yet another Beijing nightlife favorite is being forced to shut its doors. After a relatively quiet period, this shuttering stings...
The Silver Lining In Beijing’s Latest Round of Business Busting Renovations
An air of relief is reverberating around the city following the latest round of commerce-killing streetside renovations in Beijing. While one long-...
El Nido to Make Triumphant Return In the Coming Days With New Beiluogu Xiang Digs
Hordes of hutong barflies drowned their sorrows with bottled beer and homemade fruit-infused shots at El Nido's closing party last fall when the long...
Yonghegong Brickening
The Great Brickening of 2017, which laid to waste vast stretches of hutongs and streets from Chaoyang to Haidian, is back for another summer of dust...
Try Those Delicious Food at Cheniandian Hutong before It’s Gone
Call us writers with a hutong complex, but when we heard rumors that beloved Cheniandian Hutong was soon to meet the fate of many similar Beijing...
Dirty Bar Street Shakeup Continues With Forthcoming Closure of La Pizza Branch, Razing of Nightclubs
Dirty Bar Street continues on its march towards complete upheaval. During a recent visit, we noticed that the demolitions that kicked off roughly a...