Blog Tag - The Great Brickening
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our 12-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
One of the longest standing strips of restaurants in the Sanlitun area fell under the chai today as multiple venues in the north part of the...
Only a day after ominous scaffolding cropped up on Yonghegong Dajie one of the street’s most popular bars and restaurants, Café de la Poste (CDLP)...
Less than a year after the Yonghegong neighborhood was granted the Great Brickening treatment, laying to waste numerous religious curios shops and...
Though the Aperitivo team put up a noble fight, the veteran Italian café quietly ended its decade-plus run last week. A recent visit to their...
If you’re heartsick about the closure of your favorite Hutong hole in the wall, the sign for Fish Fusion restaurant will quickly catch your eye....
While “The Brickening” has so far mostly affected commercial properties, including wiping out many well-known and beloved food and beverage...
Lido restaurant Ramo — one of Beijing's most popular spots for pizza, pasta, brunch, and other comfort food — suddenly announced its closure today (...
[CORRECTION: Oct 31, 11am] Freda Fu, the head of sales at Natooke, has since followed up to say that the shop’s team will soldier on for as long as...
Bad news Beijing: yet another Beijing nightlife favorite is being forced to shut its doors. After a relatively quiet period, this shuttering stings...
An air of relief is reverberating around the city following the latest round of commerce-killing streetside renovations in Beijing. While one long-...
Hordes of hutong barflies drowned their sorrows with bottled beer and homemade fruit-infused shots at El Nido's closing party last fall when the long...
The Great Brickening of 2017, which laid to waste vast stretches of hutongs and streets from Chaoyang to Haidian, is back for another summer of dust...
Call us writers with a hutong complex, but when we heard rumors that beloved Cheniandian Hutong was soon to meet the fate of many similar Beijing...
Dirty Bar Street Shakeup Continues With Razing of Nightclubs, Forthcoming Closure of La Pizza Branch
Dirty Bar Street continues on its march towards complete upheaval. During a recent visit, we noticed that the demolitions that kicked off roughly a...
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