This year our 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards have four personality-based categories: Best Chef, Best Manager, Restaurant Personality of the Year, and Food Entrepreneur of the Year. During the voting period that runs through March 8, we’re profiling a few of this year’s crop of nominees.

Al Bar Italia is the newest café on Xindong Lu, opening on the south side of the Italian Center. The café eyes clean and calm, and although somewhat confused by its Italian surroundings, it offers the perfect refuge from the hustle bustle of the streets of Sanlitun.

One of our favorite people, former NBA star Yao Ming, isn't from Beijing (he's from Shanghai), but we like the guy so much that we're always interested in what he's doing, post-basketball. When Yao isn't teaching kids how to play his favorite sport, he's doing something more grown-up: making wine. 

This year our 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards have four personality-based categories: Best Chef, Best Manager, Restaurant Personality of the Year, and Food Entrepreneur of the Year. During the voting period that runs through March 8, we’re profiling a few of this year’s crop of nominees.

Stephon Marbury’s late game heroics helped the Beijing Ducks clinch an overtime thriller 109-107 against Guangdong Southern Tigers Tuesday night at the MasterCard Center.

With the epic win, the Ducks eliminated the heavily-favored Tigers in the best-of-five semifinals 3-1 and will go on to face the Liaoning Hunters in the 2015 CBA Finals.

Here we go again. For the first time since Chai Jing's Under the Dome anti-pollution documentary took China by storm last week, Beijing is likely to be shrouded in smog.

This year our 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards have four personality-based categories: Best Chef, Best Manager, Restaurant Personality of the Year, and Food Entrepreneur of the Year. During the voting period that runs through March 8, we’re profiling a few of this year’s crop of nominees.

This time around we present Max Levy, owner and chef at Okra and a nominee in the Best Chef category.

We bet everyone is still recuperating after a cornucopia of bacchanalian Lunar New Year shindigs and Southeast Asia vacations, but it's time to once again zip on your party armor for a weekend of disco mayhem and solid bar events that will be impossible to miss.
 

A sly, seductive curve of flesh greets you as you step towards the bathroom. Tracing the graceful nude spine upwards you are met with piercing black, soulless eyes. And feathers. An anthropomorphic menagerie of portraits featuring a naked dove, a wolf in a billowing ball gown, and a high-ranking monkey in full dress uniform, among others, grace the walls of Ritan’s newest watering hole, The Foxhole.

Late 2014 appeared to be the catalyst moment for a resurgence in discussions about women equality, with campaigns like HeForShe making a global push for one half of the world to rise up as equals. March 8 is recognised as International Women's Day, and this year brings with it the same push towards female empowerment and celebrations of success across social, political, economical, and many other platforms that women have contributed to and c