TGIT: The Best Tuesday Food and Drinks Deals in Beijing

Tuesday is a normal day, it’s not a Monday, nor is it nearly the weekend or hump day. In fact, there’s one more hump to get over before you get to hump day. Fortunately, we live in an awesome city that never sleeps so we thought to compile Beijing’s best Tuesday happy hours and drink (or food) deals, or other great activities, because why the hell not.

Mao Mao Chong
Hutong and cocktail favorite Mao Mao Chong is not lacking in deals for your TGIT: their pizzas are only RMB 40 each all night long, an absolute steal.  If you need more of a reason to go, bartender Eric Liu was in the running for Beijing’s best bartenders in the Beijinger’s 2015 Reader Bar and Club Awards, and the bar won a prize for outstanding cocktails.

Slow Boat
Slow Boat Brewery has a great reason to pop into their hutong brewery on your way home from work on Tuesdays – every Tuesday selected brews are two-for-one between 8 and 11pm. Every week holds surprise offers, but generally there is one light, one medium, and one hoppy brew. There is something for everyone’s taste. And then there are the burgers …

Más
Tired of drink deals ending before you even get off work? Then Más’ deal is for you: two-for-one specialty daiquiris all night long (starting at 6pm until closing at 1am – you really should be in bed by then if you want to be presentable on Wednesday, anyway). The offer includes classics like Shark Bite, Clásico, Port-au-Prince, and their own creations too.

Home Plate Bar-B-Que
Two Tuesdays a month Home Plate hosts a Boozy Bingo with awesome prizes for first and second place winners (we’ll give you a clue: alcohol). Bingo starts at 9pm, at the same time as their usual happy hour which runs until 11pm. Each round of Bingo costs RMB 5 per card, with a total of six rounds. Tried, tested, and messed on by the Beijinger staff. Next round is December 22.

The Local
If you’d rather be challenged on a Tuesday night, or have a bunch of competitive friends, the Local has just the right amount of that in their culturally-unbiased pub quiz which starts at 8pm every Tuesday. Each participating team gets a free jug of beer, and will enjoy happy hour prizes all night (RMB 10-20 off selected drinks). And we haven’t even mentioned all those prizes …

Q Mex
South Sanlitun Mexican favorite Q Mex has it’s pizzas on offer on Tuesdays – half price between 5pm and 2am. This means that their pizzas are priced from RMB 30. This is accompanied by live music, and a daily happy hour that runs until 9pm. For the Tuesday-night-partier who likes their pizza served with a dash of live music.

CuJu Moroccan Bistrot and Rummery
Every Tuesday a bottle of wine will get you a complementary appetizer at CuJu, famous for Badr Benjelloun’s creations. What better way to unwind with friends following a hectic Tuesday at work?

Modernista
Don’t have time for your hobbies and your social life? Tuesdays at Modernista is ‘Drink and Draw’, the perfect opportunity to combine your drawing hobby and your beautiful drinking habit – a model poses for you, and your work could win you free drinks. Time to try something different.

Caravan
Half off all Cajun dishes at Caravan every Tuesday for the entire day. Moreover, Badr will get behind the bar to whip up New Orleans classics like Sazeracs and Hurricanes to keep the good times rolling.

The Distillery by Capital Spirits
Tired of Tuesdays? No problem, our solution is Tasting Tuesdays where once again, any tasting pour or flight from our extensive spirits list is Buy-one-get -one-free. If you’re a fan of drinking rum, bourbon, or of course gin neat, we’ll see you here.

4corners
The 4Corners Pub Quiz is a weekly international bar trivia. Every Tuesday at 8pm until about 10.30pm, veteran host Matthew Jacobs presents five challenging rounds of trivia on different topics. Prizes are awarded each round. You can win shots, drinks, food, and even dessert. At the end of the quiz, anyone can participate in a special trivia challenge. Even if your team isn’t the geekiest, you can still win something. 

Habanero
Two-for-one chicken burritos with homemade habanero sauce, perfectly paired with hot toddies, all available at Habanero between 5pm and 8pm every Tuesday.

8-Bit
All night happy hour every Tuesday at 8-Bit, including RMB 20 Kirin 600ml bottles, RMB 30 classic cocktails, RMB 10 Arrow Factory draft, or RMB 30 mulled wine.

Roll on, Wednesday ...

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