Maxim’s de Paris at Solana

By Annie Wei
Maxim’s was the first French restaurant to enter Beijing in the 1990s. It sows you French food, while tasty, can also be affordable.
Maxim’s at Solana is spacious with a 40-seat lower level and a fine dining restaurant with 80 seats on the second floor. Its terrace is especially popular in sumer.
Maxim’s serves traditional [...]

Snug place for a milk tea

Ye hails from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, so most of the shop’s ingredients are from her hometown. Tutu milk tea (22 yuan), a popular Wenzhou beverage, is its signature drink. It is milk teamixed with almond tofu. Another of Tutu’s specialty drink is cola-herb jelly (20 yuan), with herb jelly shipped from Wenzhou. It does not taste as bitter as that served in other restaurants, and with a slight taste of ola, it is refreshing and thirst-quenching.

Water Bar and Restaurant

By Venus Lee
Water Bar and Restaurant is anything but short on the key element in its name. The restaurant is adjacent to the lake in Chaoyang Park. It is an ideal dining place for people of all ages during the hot summer. Its environment is tranquil and its scenery is beautiful.
 
The white staircase, red sofa [...]

House of music and Mediterranean

Alfa specialized in Southeast Asian dishes until a few months ago, when its new chef Christelle Helf introduced Mediterranean cuisine.

Hidden noodle bar

Nestled in Sanlitun’s 1949 – The Hidden City complex, Noodle Bar is a cozy place for a bowl of simple but tasty noodles. Customers will be impressed by its courtyard environment and morn design.

Summertime is fruit time: Fruit picking in the suburbs

It is harvest time for blueberries, grapes, peaches and watermelons in suburban Beijing. Visitors can go to farms and orchards not only to shop for fresh fruits, but also to go fruit picking.

Clothes to go with the coffee, please

Small businesses have to be especially clever; their merchandise is limited, so their creativity needs to be expressed in their products’ design and their shop’s marketing strategy House is a shining example. Tucked in a quiet hutong next to chaotic Di’anmen Avnue, it is a fashion boutique and coffee shop under one roof.

Your hair tattles your age

Kiehl’s, a well-known US cosmetic company, entered the Beijing market only three weeks ago. It has an extensive product line ranging from skin care to fragrance. Besides its star products – lip balms and toners – its shampoos are also popular, including the amino acid shampoo (180 yuan for 250 milliliters).

Body toning and smoothening options

For belly toning and smoothening, Comfort Zone recommends Body Strategist + Remodeller serum (1,060 for 500 milliliters). The treatment involves applying the liquid on the belly, then wrapping the area in a plastic sheet for 25 minutes.

The legend of the ‘bad’ Cosmo Girl

Helen Gurley Brown, former editor of Cosmopolitan for more than 30 years, championed feminism in her own way. Now Jennifer Scanlon, a women’s studies professor at Bowdoi College, Maine, eulogizes her in Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown as an exceptional woman warrior for the cause of sexual freedom and sees a place for her in the pantheon of mid-20th-century feminists.