“Why go in a bar, when you can order a hot drink from the sidewalk?” the owners of this zany kiosk seem to be asking. 

This season's bazaars and performances to bring you Yuletide vibes, some of them with a Chinese spin.

Mio, an Italian fine dining haunt in the Four Seasons hotel, made the cut on Gambero Rosso’s recently released globe-spanning Top Italian Restaurants 2019 list, alongside some of the world’s most renowned pasta and pizza purveyors. 

Beijing’s classier lounges by no means have a lockdown on the capital’s cocktail scene. This is especially true as billowing paychecks place the average price of drinks at many such spots above RMB 100 each, leaving an ever-widening gap in the market for more fun and affordable concoctions. That shortfall is steadily being filled not only by bars but also increasingly by restaurants. Below, you’ll find some of our favorite venues that prioritize affordable mixology right alongside appetizing meals.  
 

In China, middle-aged and elderly people are increasingly using WeChat mini-programs for entertainment purposes, including watching videos and reading news, and photography, according to the mini-program data analysis platform Aladdin.

It’s a bold move indeed to open a bakery right across the street from Boulangerie, the 18-month-old Dongzhimen spot opened by a Cordon Bleu trainer baker.

What's Up in Beer is our weekly rubdown of all things ale and suds. Lather yourself in the latest beery news, gossip, and openings all the while forgetting what exactly it was that you were meant to be doing. Don't worry, beer can fix that too.

Following just over six weeks of intense, lip-lickingly delicious competition, the two venues to duke it out in this year's Championship Round of the 2018 Pizza Cup stand before us, proud, defiant, and slightly burnt around the edges: Gung Ho and La Pizza.

Parisian DJ Zaltan’s high energy, pummeling bass, and deeply grooving instrumentals have gained him a strong following on both online platforms like Soundcloud and at the many of club sets he regularly plays, including local spots in the French capital to the internationally renowned Boiler Room. He is also a well-regarded curator, enlisting and mentoring up and comers on his own Antinote label.

The coordinators of this year's Maovember Dog Pubcrawl tell us all about this year's boozy, pup-friendly event.