On the Radar: Top 50 Bartender, New Brew, Popping Lifestyle

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New restaurants, dining deals, drinks discounts, guest shifts, pop-ups, and more happenings on our radar this week.

Wild Kite expands from Andingmen into Chaoyang, find curios and a little more at new lifestyle store Popping, plus a multisensory mixology guest shift and IPA Week.

Wild Kite Expands to Chaoyang with New CBD Taphouse

Wild Kite is making a move to bring its brews closer to craft beer lovers in Chaoyang with the opening of its second location in Fortune Financial Center. Wild Kite’s new digs builds on the Andingmen original with its sleek design, menu of burgers and bar snacks, Chinese style kites floating on the ceiling, and a total of 31 taps to house their range of beers – which are now also available in wonderfully illustrated 440 ml cans as well.

Wild Kite Taphouse 野风筝

1-15-2, 1/F, Bldg 7, 7 East 3rd Ring Middle Road, Chaoyang District
朝阳区东三环中路7号院7楼一层1-15-2店铺
Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11am-1am; Fri, Sat, 11am-2am

Find Vintage Stuff, Fun Projects and More at Popping

While from the outside it might just look like your run-of-the-mill antiques shop, Popping is a bit deeper than that. The newly opened shop in Qianmen is the perfect place to find gifts, objects, and vintage products that are either rare to find or made by non-famous artists. There’s everything from silver, 14k gold jewelry, furniture, home decor, paintings, plants, candles and more. Plus, the inventory changes once or twice a week, so every time you… pop into… Popping, you’ll find something new.

Going beyond the shop, Popping can also help with creative projects and gift-making, so if you can’t find what you’re looking for or have an idea in mind that you’d like to make bigger, they can help with that.

Popping

2 Caochang Sitiao, Dongcheng District
东城区草厂四条2号
Hours: 11am-7pm
Contact: 136 9106 7262

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Try Multisensory Cocktails at This Thursday Guest Shift

This Thursday (Sep 14), Antonio Lai, head bartender and owner of 50 Best World and Asia listed Hong Kong bar Quinary, is headed to Bar Long Fong with something special in tow: multisensory mixology.

A way to drink while utilizing all five senses, Lai is a pioneer of multisensory cocktails, and there will be some of his greatest hits, including the Quinary’s signature multisensory cocktail, the Earl Grey Caviar Martini.

Antonio Lai’s Guest Shift at Bar Long Fong is happening on Thursday, Sep 14 from 8pm to midnight. Entry is free.

Bar Long Fong 廊房酒吧

1, 1/F, 97 Jinbao Jie (Behind Park Plaza Hotel), Chaoyang District
朝阳区金宝街97号一层1号(北京丽亭酒店后面)
Hours: Daily, 7pm-2am
Contact: 010 8517 5879

Enjoy 20 IPAs on Tap During Slowboat’s Annual IPA Week

This Saturday (Sep 16) Slowboat is launching one of their biggest events of the year, the 9th Annual Slowboat IPA Week. The yearly event sees the Beijing brewery team up with brewers from around China to showcase a variety of different IPAs. There will also be flights, discounts on beers, as well as guided IPA tastings and brewery tours happening on Sep 17, 18, and 20. Tickets for the tastings and tours are RMB 188 each, read more and find out how to get tickets here.

Slowboat’s 9th IPA Week is happening from Saturday, Sep 16 to Friday, Sep 22 at all Slowboat locations (tastings + brewery tours are at Maizidian location only). All Slowboat IPAs are RMB 35, and all guest IPAs are RMB 45.

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Images: Uni You, courtesy of the venues

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