Hutong Hangout Cellar Door Rises From the Ashes (Sort Of)

First, Cellar Door braved Beijing’s hutong brickings by cheekily rebranding themselves as Cellar Window. But then, when even their reduced shop was forced out, hipsters all across Gulou shed tears of grief. 

The original Cellar Door getting bricked up

Now, the Door has found a logical new home in hipster-adjacent Waiting for Godot, the coffee shop and bar on Jiaodaokou Dongdajie. The collab means little has changed at WFG – except now there’s a ton more beer (and hipsters).  

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