If you're a beer drinker, there are perhaps no other places in Beijing that will delight you more. The Stumble Inn has an incredible selection of hard-to-find beers. The prices match the difficulty of obtaining the selection, though - in some cases, they're eye-poppingly expensive.

The atmosphere is also better than I expected for a place that is--let's face it--in a mall. Lots of creative and attractive Beijing-themed art throughout, with comfortable seating and both an upstairs and downstairs area.

Where The Stumble Inn falls short is food and service. After bringing us the menu and doing the typical "Chinese Hover" (where the server stands by the table eagerly insistent to take your order the second you open the menu) - to which we waved him away - it became impossible to actually place an order. Keep in mind, this was a Tuesday night and the place was almost empty. Finally, someone who I think was the floor manager (he seemed Irish) came and took our order.

My order was fairly simple, tomato soup and blue cheese fries, but the wrong kind of soup came. The server was apologetic and quickly fixed the problem. The blue cheese fries were expensive and I found the sauce to be too soupy and watery - maybe this is the way they should be, though. Obviously this isn't a dish popular in the US, but I wouldn't order it again. The tomato soup was excellent, but oh so very expensive. 80 kuai for soup and French fries, without a beer even being part of the equation. For the price, I'd at least expect generous portions--how much more could it cost for a big bowl of soup instead of a disappointingly skimpy dish?

Would I return? Definitely, if I was in a mood for a hard-to-find beer. I'd eat somewhere else first, though.