In our new monthly feature Mifan/Mafan, we cover the latest restaurant and bar openings in the form of bite-sized reviews. All we hope to do is answer a simple question: is the rice worth the hassle?
En Vain
The thing about there being only one baijiu bar in the world until now (Capital Spirits), is that baijiu bar No. 2 only really has one baijiu bar to compete against (Capital Spirits). En Vain will inevitably draw comparisons, which, unfortunately for them, is not a good thing.
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Two Guys and a Pie
Listen up, bogans: Two Guys and a Pie are back with their distinctly Antipodean brand of meat pies. Their new space is as small as it gets without becoming a rollaway cart. But that’s all our two guys need, because the meat pies are killer.
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Haven
Houhai is a shithole of double-decker-tourbus proportions. But we found love in this hopeless place, at Haven, whose Peach Smash (RMB50) coaxed oohs and aahs from our bourbon-soaked lips. Our only request is that they get some music on the roof, because that Houhai racket’s a bitch.
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La Cevicheria by Migas
This summer saw the opening of not one, but two pisco-and-ceviche joints, which is unusual, but hey – Peruvians are bound to make pisco and ceviche, we suppose. We tried La Cevicheria’s pisco sours (RMB35) and can attest that they’re frothy-good. This being part of Migas, we also expected creatively elegant South American cooking – and the wagyu beef tequenos (RMB98) were exactly that.
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Punk Rock Noodle
After struggling to sell cheese to the lactose intolerant (at the late Corner Melt), Jimi Sides and co are back. Sure, noodle restaurants in Beijing are a fen a dozen, but these servings (RMB28-38) are tasty, decently sized and accompanied by a brash dose of Oi! punk.
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The Smokeyard
The Smokeyard is the kind of place that would be on every corner of every American town. That’s not normally a good thing, but we’re in Beijing, so that makes it special, and the steak (RMB98) is a steal for its Sanlitun environs. Final verdict: It definitely doesn’t suck! But then that’s not much of an endorsement either, is it?
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