Great Leap Announces Third Location

This Just In: Great Leap Brewing, those pioneers of Beijing craft beer and purveyors of first-class pub grub, have just signed a lease on a third location – this one north of Sanlitun, not too far from the Xinyuanli Market and in the northern shadow of Capital Mansion.

The 500sqm space, previously occupied by the Rocking Horse Cafe at 45-1 Xinyuan Jie, currently has no fixed opening date but the buildout will begin in July and the eventual finished venue will seat 200.

New to Great Leap at this third location will be an rooftop deck, handmade pizza, more chicken wing choices and a brewery capable of producing over 15,000 liters of GLB's golden nectar every month.

With their previous two locations already satisfying us (they raked in the Bar of the Year prize and a fistful of other awards at this year's Beijinger Bar & Club Awards), we can't wait to see what this third location has to offer.

And (well, some of us anyhow) still can't wait for Great Leap to decide to leap on over to Shuangjing, where we famously (and incorrectly) prognosticated last March that Great Leap's third location would open there. Not to worry though folks – the news of the Xinyuan Jie location came straight from the horse's mouth via an official press release, so it's not a question of if, but only when.