Matt Ford

Some 10 years ago I visited the first Boxing Cat Brewery in Shanghai and I have happy memories of that time. Establishments like it were then far less common in China. Shanghai currently boasts four Boxing Cat bars and,...

A t’Ale of Two Cities? How does the old Southern Capital compare with its northern partner when it comes to finding decent beer? In order to answer this question, I set out to visit more than 20 of the...

We don’t do too badly for craft beer in Nanjing. I’m not saying there couldn’t be improvements of course, but there is plenty out there if you know where to look. There is a decent annual summer beer festival,...

Robin Bar is the place to go if you fancy some really well-made cocktails in an environment akin to a small private club. Watching Robin prepare a cocktail is excellent therapy for a frustrated sufferer of obsessive compulsive disorder...

When I came to Nanjing and settled in Pukou, I had little expectation of finding a quality bar nearby, and certainly not one with a good range of draft beer. Having visited the usual suspects in the city centre,...

Root Inn is no ordinary bar. The award-winning décor is a pun on the name with a rather curious combination of themes; computer-inspired (as in the root directory) and plant-inspired (as in, well, plant roots). The dark interior is...