Thanksgiving 2013: LDS Picks for Top Turkey Feasts

Beijing’s Best Thanksgiving Feasts 2013

With terrific Thanksgiving spreads available around town throughout the week, there’s no reason why you have to pressure yourself into picking just one Thanksgiving meal.  We’ve waited all year long for this incredible turkey feast to come around again so make the most of it this year and sign yourself up for as many as you can stuff yourself with.

Whether you’re American is irrelevant because no matter where you’re from, everyone can appreciate a holiday focused on phenomenal food and good company, and celebrate Thanksgiving with a home-style meal even if they are so far away from home.

Last year, my gang of foodies managed to eat through two turkey feasts in one day. Some might call us guilty of gluttony, but I just say we were fully embracing the spirit of Thanksgiving. A very special time of year for foodies like us, it’s a time where diets are thrown out the window and you indulge guilt-free in anything and everything that is Thanksgiving goodness.

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M’s Light Lunch Menu is Local, Seasonal & Organic

Capital M Introduces their 4-course Light and Healthy Lunch Menu

So much more than a stunningly gorgeous restaurant with incredible views of Qianmen, the thing I like most about Capital M is their support of organic, local and seasonal produce and their understanding of the importance of sustainable practices.

This is the same environmentally conscious and food-passionate team who also recently organized an anti-food waste and food loss campaign to support World Environment Day on June 5th, and a week-long special menu to celebrate Food Revolution Day, a day of action for people to make a stand for good food and essential cooking skills, which ended with a “Foodprint” debate panel to discuss their take on the current food climate and importance of sustainable practices.

So it makes sense that they’re now promoting a new 3-course + fresh juice “Light and Healthy Luncheon” menu using local, seasonal and organic ingredients, all attributes I am excited to support (and happily consume!).

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Classical Concert at Capital M: French Summer Dream

Fête de la Musique: The Capital Music String Quartet performs the Romantic Greats

This Friday, June 21st, Capital M is hosting a free concert of dreamy French Classical music, as played by their house Capital Music String Quartet, featuring musicians from the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music.

This concert serves as a tribute to Fête de la Musique (since 1982), a day that celebrates all kinds of music, with free performances in outdoor spaces and surprising venues. Fete de la Musique is now held in over 100 countries on June 21, the summer solstice.

“In celebration of Fête de la Musique, Capital M brings you an evening of the Romantic greats, including Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel.” – Capital M

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Capital M Launches Campaign Against Food Waste

Join the Fight Against Food Waste

June 5th marks World Environment Day and the theme for this year’s celebrations is “Think. Eat. Save.”, an anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages you to reduce your foodprint.

“If food is wasted, it means that all the resources and inputs used in the production of all the food are also lost. For example, it takes about 1,000 litres of water to produce 1 litre of milk and about 16,000 litres goes into a cow’s foodto make a hamburger. The resulting greenhouse gas emissions from the cows themselves, and throughout the food supply chain, all end up in vain when we waste food.” - United Nations Environment Programme

In support of this year’s theme of food waste, Capital M is conducting an awareness raising campaign and they’re putting one of their most prized menu items on the line (their famous Pavlova dessert!). In an effort to reduce food waste, they have announced that for all meals at Capital M (lunch and/or dinner) on June 5th, dessert is on the house if you completely polish off all the food on your plate!

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Capital M: Spring Menu + Food Revolution Week

Taste M’s New Spring/Summer Menu 

From a vibrant green organic salad sprinkled with pretty pink petals to a “Variety of Eggplant Dishes” or as I like to call “a party of eggplants and everyone’s invited”, Capital M‘s new Spring/Summer menu is a delightful new addition of sure-to-be-new-favorites on their classic menu of modern European cuisine.

Gathering a table of foodies together, we sampled our way through a medley of M’s proud new menu additions including 4 different starters and 3 mains before  topping it all off with their marvelous Grand Dessert Platter (as if we weren’t being spoiled enough)!

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Hollywood’s China Syndrome: A Film Panel at Capital M

Kung Fu Panda: China in Hollywood

More than just giant pandas kicking ass, China is playing a more major role in Hollywood films both on-screen and behind-the-scenes.

As a part of Beijing Film Festival, Capital M Restaurant is teaming up with Orb Media Group, a leading US and China based independent producer and financier of film, television and new media properties that unite Hollywood and Chinese markets, to host a thought-provoking film discussion called “Hollywood’s China Syndrome” this Sunday, April 21st at the lovely and picturesque Capital M located on the 600-year-old Qianmen Street, surrounded by Beijing’s historic landmarks.

“From James Bond to Transformers, Kung Fu Panda to the AMC cinema franchise, China is all over Hollywood. In celebration of the Beijing Film Festival, our panel of industry experts takes a look at the impact of the second-largest box office market in the world on Hollywood, financially and creatively.” - Capital M Team

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Results Revealed: theBeijinger Restaurant Awards 2013

theBeijinger’s 10th Annual Reader Restaurant Awards

On Thursday, March 14th, theBeijinger just celebrated its 10th Annual Reader Restaurant Awards Ceremony over an afternoon awards ceremony at the Kerry Hotel Beijing.

Together with Beijing’s most influential players in the city’s dining scene, results were announced whilst drinks were poured and foodies mingled.

Over a couple of hours, winners and runners-up for each of the 50 different categories listed were revealed alongside enthusiastic applause mixed in with a couple of unexpected surprises.

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85 Broads Celebrates International Women’s Day

85 Broads: Global Women’s Network

International Women’s Day is coming up this Friday, March 8th – a day to celebrate a world of wonderful women!

The Global Women’s Network, 85 Broads Chapter in Beijing is teaming up with the Australian Chamber of Commerce (AustCham) and the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) to host an upcoming International Women’s Day Event at the lovely and picturesque Capital M.

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