Oldie but Goodie is a monthly column where we feature noteworthy restaurants, cafes or bars that have been open at least six months and are worth a try.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to let you in on one of Guangzhou’s best kept secrets: Ginstar.
Located at the base of the Clayton Hotel, inside Meilin Hai’an Garden in Tianhe, this bar slash burger dispensary is a hit amongst local residents and the foreign staff that teach at a nearby kindergarten.
The food here is comparable in many ways to that of backwater American diners; the type of food you find twenty minutes off the nearest interstate in some forgotten town that’s built around a liquor barn and a Walmart.
The menu is hearty, delicious and cheap. Take Ginstar’s burgers for example: the bacon and mushroom burger comes loaded with Australian beef, cheese, lightly crisped bacon and – as you’d expect – mushrooms. It’s filling and only RMB46.
If you tend to prefer something round, dabble on the quattro sausage pizza (RMB58), or take your passion for Italian cuisine the pasta route, which comes with more meat than noodles based on our experience.
Ginstar’s booze prices are where you really save the pennies. A bucket of six Coronas sells for RMB109, while a three-liter tower of Tiger sells for the rock-bottom price of RMB108.
Now you’re probably thinking, “This place has got to be a dump based on these prices,” but in fact, both the interior and patio at Ginstar rival anything you’d find at Zhujiang’s popular F&B establishments.
If you haven’t been, do yourself a favor and check it out – for the price and atmosphere, you really can’t go wrong.
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