March 2012

It's that time of year again where you've told us exactly what you think of the city's dining scene in our Reader Restaurant Awards. For the ninth year running, we've expanded the categories to match Beijing's growing gastronomical tastes and then put it to the public vote. Perhaps you agree with the results, perhaps you don't – but this is what Beijing thinks of its culinary content in 2012.

We're all about adding things into the mix so we've stirred up a panel of experts to add some seasoning to the awards with their own restaurant picks. We've got some Editors' Picks too, but that's not all. Our bumper Cover Feature also features interviews with some of the most delightful F&B personalities in the city and we've carved up the awards data into some revealing infographics.

Elsewhere, we've added some bite to the bicycle argument in our Ecology Feature, we've previews of the Midi and Strawberry music festivals and we bake a pie in "Hands-On." Our Peking Man has the scoop on inflation in the afterlife, we go shooting with DJ Chozie, and Dayyan Eng dishes the dirt on directing Kevin Spacey.

Elsewhere in the issue it's what you've come to expect: all the content that matters. The best interviews, the events that count, all of the new bars, restaurants and shops, plus more prizes than you could confine between two slices of bread.

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