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Hats off to Sandy from Sarnia for rocking the board all night despite your surprisingly limited amount of drinks. Your winning word "FOXIER" managed to garner you 48 points and delivered you to victory. You win a 250RMB Cotton's voucher to be used (hopefully!) at the next Shanghaiist Scrabble happy hour night.

Does the fact that China doesn't have scrabble get your goat? Does the fact that Craig Beevers won the UK's national Scrabble championship AGAIN and you know you could take him down bother you? Have you ever wanted to battle with the Shanghaiist editors in a match of lexicons?

We've got a whole new bag of tricks to spice up our semi-monthly Shanghaiist Happy Hour at Cotton's. Well, technically, it's a bag of tiles- Scrabble tiles. After searching in vain for a game of Scrabble and only finding Maonopoly sets, we decided that we would maverick it and just make our own. And since we all know how witty and clever Shanghaiist readers are, we'd like to cordially invite you to join us next Tuesday, October 27 for the first monthly Shanghaiist Scrabble night!

With a mere forty-eight hours before the National Day celebration, we figured we'd throw a little surprise party of our own. Come down to Cotton's tonight and celebrate Shanghaiist's "we-hope-we-also-make-it-to-sixty" happy hour party! We're going to party like it's 1949, kick some traditional Chinese jams, and dance the night away with National Day drinking fervor. And like always, two for one drinks until ten!

Come on out and have a drink with us!

Yes, there have been a couple hiccups with our original plans to have semi-monthly Shanghaiist Happy Hours, but with the weather cooling off into nice, comfortable weeknights, we're ready to get back on schedule.

And if you happen to have any John Hughes films you'd like to see, bring them on over - lest we have to play The Breakfast Club twice (Shanghai DVD stores had a surprising dearth of good 80s flicks this week).

We're not sure what John Hughes meant to the rest of the world, but for American teens, he encapsulated every struggle and every triumph we ever had or wished to have. We wanted to go on Ferris Bueller's Day Off, we wanted our crushes to blow out our Sixteen Candles with us, we were desperate to experience some Weird Science (or, for the 90s kids, be left Home Alone).

In case you're looking for a chill place to hang out tonight and celebrate French National Day, come on over and hang out with us at the Shanghaiist Happy Hour at Cotton's on 294 Xinhua Lu.

If you're a Francophile looking for something a little more special (but maybe a little more low key than a six hour ladies' night, though if that's your thing then chacun ses goûts) to do on Bastille Day, come and hang with us at Cotton's on Xinhua Lu.

Yep, it's tonight. Come on over to Cotton's on Xinhua Lu for the Shanghaiist Happy Hour, which will feature yet another live performance from Philadelphia based musician Brian Seymour (MySpace). Want to read up on him? See more on our Seymour interview.

Just a reminder for everybody hankering for an after work drink. The Shanghaiist Happy Hour starts at 6PM tonight! Come for the music, the company, the drink deals (20RMB Tsingtaos, 30RMB other select drinks) and the chance to win one of THREE vouchers for Aegis Co-op!

Wondering what to do tomorrow after work? Why not join us for our next installment of the Shanghaiist Happy Hour? Since it's the third one since we're restarted hosting these things, we're raffling off THREE gifts this time.

                                          

The rain, which had been irking us all day, let up at around 7pm - surprising us all with a pleasant, cool night. We tossed back our drinks, hummed along with the best tunes of 2009 and raffled off a series of amazing prizes. Thanks to everyone who came along and lent a hand to Hands on Chengdu.

Yep, we had so much fun last time around that we've decided to host it twice a month from now until eternity. Which means, come this May 12, you can once again head over to Cotton's Xinhua Lu location to take advantage of (hopefully) good weather and great drink deals. Don't front like you're not excited!

                          

Just like we promised, it was a beautiful night over at Cotton's Xinhua Road location. We drank, we chatted, and we gave away a free night at the Shangri-La (thanks to Ctrip.com) to one lucky winner. Be sure to come on out to our next happy hour on May 12!

Entry: FREE!

Just a reminder for all of you fans of after-work revelry: tomorrow night, from 6pm to 10pm, you can enjoy the company of fellow Shanghaiist readers. According to weather reports, it's going to be a beautiful night - perfect for the outdoor area at Cotton's Xinhua Lu location.

Guess where you could be exactly a week from now? Drinking with us at Shanghaiist's first happy hour of the year! Assuming the weather gods decide to bless us with as sunny a Tuesday as today was, we'll all be hanging outdoors, chatting and listening to great (if we may say so ourselves) music at Cotton's Xinhua Lu location.

                                                                 

Thanks to the couple hundred people who attended our Election Hangover get-together last night at Sasha's, co-hosted by American Craft Beer Partners. It was a great end to a wonderful day (unless, of course, you wanted the other guy to win).

Looks like many (most?) of us will have reason to celebrate tonight at Election Hangover. We'll be on the third floor of Sasha's (11 Dongping Lu, near Hengshan Lu, 东平路11号, 近衡山路) from 7 pm onwards. Drinks are half price including these fine beers from American Craft Beer Partners: Kona Longboard (from Obama's Hawaii), Brooklyn Lager, Brooklyn IPA, and Rogue American Amber Ale. (If you drink enough, perhaps Pennsylvania will begin to take its proper shape on this map.)

It's almost over! By Wednesday evening — assuming there are no hanging chads — we should know who the next leader of the free world will be. And, either way, there will be reason to drink. Some will want to celebrate ... others will want to drown their sorrows ... and many will just be relieved the damn U.S. election is finally done and dusted. And all of them — be they Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Socialists, Communists, Whigs, Tories or just thirsty — are welcome to attend Election Hangover on the 3rd floor at Sasha's (11 Dongping Lu, near Hengshan Lu, 东平路11号, 近衡山路), an extended happy hour presented by Shanghaiist.com and American Craft Beer Partners on Wednesday, Nov. 5 from 7 to 11 pm. Drinks, including ACB's fine American microbrews, are half price ... political discourse is free.

Shanghaiist Happy Hour at Sasha's, 11 Dongping Lu, near Hengshan Lu, 东平路11号近衡山路, 8pm till late! Full details here..

Here's what's up in town for the rest of this week:

Final reminder: Come beat the heat and get sloshed with Shanghaiist tonight at Sasha's. If you recognise any of the Shanghaiist contributors, please walk up to them and say hi. We promise we won't bite (but if you ask, we might oblige)!

A couple updates about tomorrow night's gathering at Sasha's. First, we forgot to mention the wines that will be included in the half-price drink special. They are: Santa Rita 120 Sauvignon Blanc and Wolf Blass Eagle Hawk Shiraz/Cab/Merlot. Second, lots of people have asked¹ for more information about the music that will be played at the Happy Hour, so we have included a list of artists featured on the playlist under "Music" below.

You are all invited to join us Thursday night at Sasha's for the first Shanghaiist Happy Hour in a long, long time (nine months, to be exact). We think we have come up with a plan to avoid a similarly long gap between alcohol-related gatherings — the first Thursday of every month, we'll have a Shanghaiist Happy Hour featuring half-price drinks (and perhaps other special and great things) at Sasha's. And, as usual, these "happy hours" will not be limited to one hour (8 pm to midnight is what we're starting with).

Mediterraneo is really a restaurant rather than a bar, but we were curious to check the place out, having known Sunny and his various former work locations over the past few years. Food wise, prices are up there with Mount Everest, so any food critics wanting to drop in had better ensure someone else is picking up the tab. Drink prices are generally 'Bundish' or a tad more. Bottled beers start from RMB40, with a pint of Carlsberg costing a whopping RMB60. There are also wines by the glass from RMB48, most cocktails at RMB58, with martinis at RMB68. Standard spirits are mostly RMB40-45. There is, however, a 4-8pm happy hour during which all standard drinks, excluding wine and champagne, are half price. The extensive wine list (150+ labels) is weighted towards French and Italian vineyards. There is a spacious upstairs bar and lounge, suitable for functions, which is more low key than the super swish ground floor dining room. Decore in this lounge is actually rather tacky, including faux fire places. In warmer months, diners can enjoy the huge garden or the large upstairs terrace. The whole villa dates back to the 1920s and was one of the many properties owned by Soo Mei Ling (check). Mediterraneo was established a couple of years ago by Marziano Palli, who was briefly the personal chef for Mikhail Gorbachev (if that's any recommendation). Palli also owns and manages six restaurants in Russia. For special occasions and functions this place is worth considering, just remember to bring your gold credit card.

UPDATE: As stated in this comment, Shanghaiist was contacted via email by the Director of Sales & Marketing of Shanghai Golden Sands F&B Management Ltd., the company running the two establishments mentioned in this report. He requested that we take the story down and issue a retraction. He also threatened legal action. The author of the post stands by his story, and says his sources included current employees of Trader Vic's. In his comment below, the Shanghai Golden Sands F&B Management Ltd. spokesman said: "It is absolutely not true the [sic] any of our restaurants are going to close in the future." We have asked Shanghai Golden Sands F&B Management Ltd. for more to their side of the story, asking which specific statements in the story they would like to refute on record. We will happily add their comments or any official company statement to this post. Stay tuned. Ed.