We first noticed Yun Brew while walking to Burger Break last month for a giant avocado cheese burger and a strawberry milkshake. We're happy to report that this three-month-old brewpub is yet another promising addition to the burgeoning Xiaoyun Lu neighborhood.

Clearly the rain doesn’t help with cooling things down. Have you noticed that even the number of dancing grandmas at Workers' Stadium has vastly decreased to a handful due to the sweltering heat? Since we're trapped here, let’s take a beer break and look at the various liquid solutions open to us this weekend.

Though it's been a tough year for hutong dwellers – what with the endless closure of various quirky, creative, and beloved alleyway businesses – a new art project should help cheer up anyone with an unwavering affinity for offbeat happenings in Beijing's aged courtyards and twisty corridors.

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Despite traveling at 300km per hour, as of today, it is now possible to order takeaway to your train seat. No longer do you need to circumnavigate the misery of the plastic yellow trays of microwaved mush-with-rice. And, yes, of course, you can pay by WeChat.

Last year’s data from Diyi Caijing puts Beijing’s average rent in the not-so-desirable spotlight as China’s highest. The average rent per month, per square meter in our fair city was RMB 71.24 in 2016, an increase of 13.46 percent year on year. That puts a 130-square-meter three-bedroom apartment of at approximately RMB 9,000 a month.

We're currently wading through the swamp that is the Beijing summer, which means that sat firmly on the horizon is a crusty, oven-baked and oval object, sopping with cheese and tomatoey goodness, signaling the impending encroachment of autumn.

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Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend. Its aim: to help you soothe the woes of a long and stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget come Monday. Check the weekend's full list of nightlife events here.
 

After nine months of lying dormant, and with the addition of the city’s skinniest escalator having eaten into its floor space, Cacha Cacha resurfaces just in time for summer as the peculiarly-titled Klerm.

Too often, Beijingers craving high-quality, affordable French-style bread find themselves out of luck, shelling out for pricey imitations that pale in comparison to the real thing. That's all about to change though, especially for Dongzhimen dwellers looking for a low key, neighborhood style bakery to get their grain fix.