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.
Despite the CNY holiday, The Veggie Table has been packed with patrons this week, no doubt there to take advantage of the abundance of variety on the venue’s vegetarian menu and to soak up its hip interior design.
The latest to join Beijing's growing number of Italian restaurants is Park 17, a sleek, industrial-chic space in the the burgeoning Courtyard 4 area of south Sanlitun (standing outside looking at The Local, Park 17 is just to the right). Au courant filament bulbs light a medium-size room furnished simply with blond wood and grey-painted walls. No table cloths here, they want guests to focus on food and enjoyment rather than stuffy fine dining.
Stephon Marbury is arguably Beijing’s favorite foreigner. Now in his sixth year in China, he’s popular for a good reason: the former NBA star has helped to bring two championships to the Beijing Ducks, his current team, which, at the time of writing, had just made the China Basketball Association’s (CBA) semi-finals, and yesterday (Feb 25) narrowly beat the Guangdong Southern Tigers 114-108.
Around Valentine’s Day we reported on a survey that named Beijing as one of the most romantic cities in the world
The small, unassuming Alameen in the northern section of Sanlitun is vying for the title of Best Middle Eastern Cuisine in the Beijinger’s Reader Restaurant Awards (vote here through March 8), but it also would have been a strong entry in the Best Value category, had it been nominated. A party of two can easily satiate their appetites for well under RMB 150 at this straightforward, satisfying Lebanese eatery and café.
China's state-run press is occasionally good for unintentionally amusing statements, but a comment in Wednesday's Global Times regarding Beijing's prospects for hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics left us shaking our heads more than holding our sides.
Ratings for CCTV’s New Year’s Gala have hit a record low of 28.37 percent, Want China Times reports, regardless of the gala being broadcasted across a whopping 189 channels. With that many channels quite a few people must have just had no choice but to watch it.
The basketball playoffs are upon us – and I’m not talking about the NBA or March Madness, I’m talking about something that could be even more exciting: the CBA semifinals.
While you might guffaw, let me make an argument for why the best-of-five series that begins tonight pitting the Beijing Ducks vs Guangdong Southern Tigers could be one worth watching.
Beijing has no shortage of over-wrought, style-over-substance cakes and confections, the stuff of local bakeries and hotel coffee shops. Proper homebaked cakes and pies on the other hand? If you don’t happen to have a friend who’s particularly gifted with a whisk and an oven, then you’ll probably have to resign yourself to those rare trips home to experience a real sweet treat.
