Here are all the new restaurant and bar openings we featured in our November 2016 issue:
New Restaurants
B.Park Cuisine
B.Park Cuisine serves healthy food, leading the restaurant to adopt mostly vegetarian dishes, which are sold in sets costing from RMB300 to more than RMB400. The dishes are served in limited portions, meaning the meal packs a variety without filling you up too early. Set B (RB350) features eight distinct dishes, including a main dish of black fried fungus (RMB138), served in the shape of a tiger’s paw. The soft texture belies its rich notes. Dessert changes daily, but always eschews sugar for honey.
Price: RMB200-400
Who’s going: pop-art buffs, artsy eaters
Good for: garden dining, healthy food
Read our full review here. See listing for B.Park Cuisine.
La Pizza... and More
La Pizza... and More is an Italian joint hidden at the end of a street in the Shixia neighborhood. With six tables inside and five out, the restaurant is full when we visit it, despite its removed location. The diavola pizza (RMB68), which translates to ‘devil’s pizza,’ is a pie seemingly possessed with mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. Don’t ask for a small or large pizza. They come in one size: the right one to fill you up. La Pizza... and More’s grilled section also offers up a few surprises, with the fillet tagliata with arugula and Parmesan cheese (RMB178) being the obvious standout. Glasses of house wine go for RMB20, while more expensive vino from the Lamborghini winery are sold by the bottle.
Price: RMB60-80 per person
Who’s going: Italians, Chinese foodies, residents living nearby
Good for: curing homesickness, limoncello, cakes, and homemade dishes
Read our full review here. See listing for La Pizza... and More.
Xico
At Xico, a Latin-themed coffee shop with a respectable menu, the downstairs walls are covered in a Mexican tile pattern, with the usual bright colors eschewed for cooler blacks and blues. Sourcing its single-origin beans from the coffee district in Veracruz, Mexico, the Altura coffee is dark roasted in-house and gives the sweet mocha (RMB28) and slightly bitter latte (RMB26) a somewhat nutty flavor. This cafe’s soul is actually in its Latin-style food: tacos, burritos, quesadillas and nachos, with tortillas and chips sourced weekly from the same supplier as much-praised Mexican restaurant Pancho’s.
Price: RMB70 for food and coffee
Who’s going: Spanish speakers, Latin culture lovers
Good for: Brushing up on your Spanish, burritos, tacos
Read our full review here. See listing for Xico.
Bars
Bass Man Bar
Unapologetically grungy, Bass Man Bar is a short strut from Holiday Plaza down Huaxia Jie, where Baishizhou’s true colors begin to come to its gritty surface. Marked by a huge sign proclaiming ‘bar’ in Chinese, the entrance is a set of dusty stairs that lead underground past dozens of empty bottles set on transparent shelves and visible from the street side. When we visit, owner Ben Guo says he has 60 types of imported beer, mostly bottled and sitting in a glass-fronted fridge. On draft are the Boulevard Pale Ale (RMB30), Vedett Extra White (RMB25) and the dark, caramel-flavored Founders Porter (RMB50), though its name is only displayed in handwritten Chinese.
Price: RMB50 for a beer and a snack
Who’s going: thirsty Baishizhouers
Good for: imbibing below ground, revisiting the ghost of Rose Café
Read our full review here. See listing for Bass Man Bar.
Season
Season is one of a bevy of fresh watering holes unleashed on Shenzhen with the opening of the KK One shopping mall. With less-than-ideal exterior seats, it shines inside where a retro, cozy interior greets the eye. The bar has a humble assortment of six beers on draft and a beer-tasting combo (RMB50) that gives us healthy swigs of five of them. Vedette Extra Blond and Vedette Extra White neatly fill the light-beer niche, while the Boulevard Pale Ale sets itself apart with a creamy mouthfeel and nutty undertones. Liefmans Fruitesse is the girls go-to for its mix of fruity flavors. Beer buffs will cheer the FireStone Walker Union Jack IPA, an intensely bitter libation with a nutty, chocolate aftertaste.
Price: RMB50-100
Who’s going: beer aficionados, KK One shoppers
Good for: craft beer, live music, chatting with friends
Read our full review here. See listing for Season.
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