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.
Grab those fluorescent yellow markers; March 11-22 needs to be highlighted in your calendar because the mouth-watering week (or rather 11 days) of feeding frenzy known as Restaurant Week is back. Over 60 establishments have signed up to offer you the chance to dine on their fabulous food at very reasonable prices.
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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 Shi Xinzhong, proprietor of Mr Shi's Dumplings, who has been nominated for Restaurant Personality of the Year.
This sounds like a recipe for the opposite of success.
China portal Sohu.com, which already streams American television institution Saturday Night Live via its popular video site, will produce its own version of the show with SNL producer Lorne Michaels. That's something that wasn't included in the 40th anniversary episode.
Duck is a Beijing classic, and everyone has their favorite, but which one is really the best? We went to try Bianyifang, a laozihao, or time-honoured brand, that serves up some mean duck, and has been doing so since 1416. Hence the impressive time-honored brand label. It is also in the running for the Beijinger 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards in the category Best Duck (Casual).
The Beijinger's 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards features four personality-based categories this time around: 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.
For one night only this Thursday March 5, Mosto's chef Daniel Urdaneta will be taking over the kitchen at 京A for "The Arepera", a very special pop-up featuring South America's best drunk food, arepas. These corn/maize flour buns (think of them as a Latin roujiamo) are popular throughout Venezuela and Colombia, where they come with a variety of meat and vegetable fillings.
Finally! A press release from Marks & Spencer discusses their move into “greater China” including cities like Beijing and Guangzhou from 2015 and 2016. Although we were a bit offended by the fact that they have labeled the capital city “greater” China, we would love it if Marks & Spencer actually opened here.
Following his in-depth tests on the best pollution masks last year, Beijing-based physician, blogger, and obsessive air filtration tester Dr Richard St Cyr has recently been on the hunt for budget air filters to help us Beijingers fight off the filth that regularly assaults our breathing passages.
