Time’s running out for you to book your slot in the culinary event of the season (if not the whole calendar year): Chi Fan for Charity, the annual eatathon where more than 50 of the Jing’s best restaurants host tables where 100 percent of the proceeds go directly to charity.
To date, 24 of the 54 tables for the Saturday November 8 event are fully booked, and if you don’t get it in gear soon you’re going to find yourself ordering take out again that night, sitting at home binge-watching the latest season of The Walking Dead while the elite of Beijing will be dining and socializing … we won’t even mention that their cash outlay will be going directly to fund the United Foundation for China’s Health (which provides access to innovative healthcare for vulnerable populations in China) and the Morning Tears foundation (which cares for children effectively orphaned when parents are sent to prison).
Below you’ll find a list of the fantastic dining opportunities still available to you as of Monday morning; better luck next time with the following tables which are already sold out: Jing A Taproom; Fat Face @ Juice by Melissa; Union Bar & Grille; The Taco Bar Beijing; Andy’s Craft Sausages; Okra 1949; Great Leap Brewing; Opera Bombana; Temple Restaurant Beijing; Velvet; Transit; Tim’s Texas BBQ; Big Smoke; Susu; Sureño; Mumu Cafe of Qing Ping Hui Guan; Punjabi; Nobu; Mosto; MODO; Migas; Karaiya; Grill 79; Ocean Grounds & Traitor Zhou’s.
Here’s our picks from some of the most intriguing dining tables still available:
Barolo (Hosted by our very own the Beijinger dining editor Robynne Tindall, RMB 800)
Jing Yaa Tang 京雅堂 (Hosted by Beijing’s Miss Manners, Sara Jane Ho, RMB 900)
FACTORY (Hosted by United Family Healthcare founder Roberta Lipson, RMB 600)
Pak Pak (Hosted by Susu and Pak Pak founders Amy Li & Jonathan Ansfield, RMB 800)
Gung Ho! Pizza (Hosted by Plastered T-Shirts founder Dominic Johnson Hill RMB 700)
Brasserie FLO (Hosted by Toni Ann Maynard, RMB 1,500)
Q Mex Bar & Grill (Hosted by Joe Wood, RMB 600)
Also available:
Hagaki (Hosted by Stephanie Rocard, RMB 800)
Black Sesame Kitchen @ the Orchid (Hosted by Lin Gao & Hubert Lin RMB 800)
Feast (Food by EAST) (Hosted by Saskia Bowers, RMB 800)
Huang Ting @ The Peninsula 凰庭 (Hosted by Shanlenn Colby & Joe Kauffman, RMB 1,200)
CRU Steakhouse (Hosted by Sahra & Jay Riskind, RMB 800)
Café Sambal (RMB 700)
Flames Grill (RMB 800)
Hatsune (Hosted by HC Kwok RMB 1,000)
Niajo (RMB 1,000)
Slow Boat Brewery (Hosted by Ernest Loh, RMB 700)
The Hutong (Hosted by Tuva Kahrs, RMB 600)
Via Roma (Hosted by Dr. Koen Sevenants, RMB 800)
Bamiyan Afghan Restaurant & Sheesha Lounge (Hosted by Gireesh S Chowdhury, RMB 1,000)
Agua (Hosted by Theresa Ahdieh, RMB 1,000)
Hani Gejiu (Hosted by Sarah Keenlyside, RMB 600)
Jing (Hosted by May Cheng & Tom Pattinson, RMB 900)
Bistro B (Hosted by Kirsten Downes, RMB 1,000)
Parnas (Hosted by Katie Knapp Littlefield, RMB 1,000)
LMPLUS (Hosted by Kay Findley & Michael Lewis, RMB 600)
Pizza Express (Hosted by Graham Norris, RMB 700)
TAVERNA (Hosted by Tong Li, RMB 800)
King’s Joy (Hosted by Hannelore Grams, RMB 1,000)
Chi Restaurant (Hosted by Nathan Zhang, RMB 700)
MAN HO (RMB 1,000)
This post first appeared on thebeijnger.com on October 20, 2014.
Images: Chi Fan for Charity, Mitchell Pe Masilun
