Blog Tag - Back for more
Every now and again we're surprised to stumble across a restaurant that has been lying in plain view this entire time. For me, Bombay Spice Indian...
There are two types of places that you wouldn’t go often: one whose beer/dishes/service/owner sucks and you wouldn’t want to bother wasting the...
We have to confess, until now, we haven't gone back to Rouge Restaurant since it first opened three years ago, even though we've walked past it ...
Swanky Taikooli North used to play second fiddle to its more accessible relative to the south, but in 2017 a couple of popular new openings,...
Call us exhibitionists, but when dining out with friends, we love to order the kind of dishes that elicit gasps of delight when they hit the table;...
There are restaurants that have been around so long that they seem to be part of the very foundation of the Beijing foodie scene. Restaurants like...
It takes something special to stay afloat for one year in the choppy waters of Beijing’s restaurant scene, let alone 10, but that is just what...
Around once a month or so, the call will go out on WeChat: "Duck at Jing Zun?" Being my friendship group's resident food snob, this is my cue to sigh...
For our Back For More blog series, we revisit the great and the good (and rarely, the not so good) of the Beijing F&B scene, those restaurants...
Nestled on the banks of Houhai, on the touristheavy side, lies the building of a Shandong cuisine laozihao, also known as a time-honored brand, and...
Xi’an export Zhen Ai Zhongguo first opened in 2013, but we can’t help but feel it has been flying way under the radar since then. Set in a quiet...
I first reviewed Bottega back in March, just a couple of months after it had opened, and enjoyed it well enough, but after hearing that the menu had ...
Spend 30 years doing anything and it’s safe to assume that you will be pretty good at it. Chef Yuan Chaoying isn’t just good at roasting Peking duck...
Mexican cuisine is experiencing somewhat of a renaissance in Beijing, with The Taco Bar flourishing and expanding onto an outside patio, Fiesta Tex-...
With his spiky red hair and youthful grin, Zijin Mansion’s Head Chef Menex Cheung doesn’t conform to the traditional image of a Chinese restaurant...