Snacks and the City: The Latest Food & Drink News in Beijing

By Noelle Mateer

TRB is ruthless. Kidding, TRB’s fantastic. Have you taken your mom to lunch there yet? You should – TRB is the best place in Beijing to take your mom to lunch. It’s also one of the best places in Beijing, period. But the legendary restaurant – which, let’s be real, is now a series of legendary restaurants and dining concepts strewn across Dongcheng – has just expanded into Chaoyang in a cutthroat way: taking over Cantina Agave’s Taikoo Li space.

Bye bye Cantina tacos

Yes, that’s exactly why Cantina shut down so abruptly last month. TRB will move into the space for its new concept, Hulu. (We have no idea what this concept will be yet.) Cantina Agave, meanwhile, will simply continue shaking up margaritas at its Shanghai location. We have our fingers crossed that Hulu will be worth the loss.

Igal Paikin and Moshe Levi of Israeli joint MoxiMoxi

Another loss we’re sad to report this month is MoxiMoxi, who are calling it quits after not one, but two of its shops were shut by Beijing’s citywide renovations. On a brighter note, Fang Bar has resufaced from that very ‘beautification campaign’ with a new, improved spot on Jiaodaokou. Yotsuba, the high-end sushi joint that is not remotely impacted by any of this, has also opened a new location, in tech hub Zhongguancun.

Meanwhile, the Hatchery train heads southward, first with an upcoming location in Guomao, and then way south, to Shanghai. Speaking of Shanghai, its most popular brewery has come northward to us: Boxing Cat Brewery is hosting a pop-up in 1949, Courtyard 4, through the end of the year. (But we hear they’re looking for a permanent location.)      

Finally, TRIBE has a new Autumn/Winter menu (shout out to TRIBE for designating their menus ‘Autumn/Winter’ like a designer at Fashion Week).

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