[Lookback]: The Drunk’s Guide to 2018
Shanghai’s bar scene began to fill up again in 2018. Saturation. Maturation. Masturbation. About 40 new places opened that were noteworthy and sometimes even excellent temples to libations. If you are doing the accounting, that’s around twice as many significant closures we saw this year. Two steps forward, indeed. What happened at the bar? The cocktail price index increased, as it always does, driven up by a few pricy openings and maybe rental and labor costs. Jing'an's stock price is trending upwards, while Xuhui's recession appears to be accelerating. There's even more gin, probably? There's even more craft...
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