This Friday @ Senses, basically, heaps of FREE WINE. ONLY FOR SHANGHAIEXPAT MEMBERS

Make a booking for Dinner for 3 or 4 people, and you can have a bottle of the Two Oceans Shiraz or the Grace Chardonnay. Both very good wines. If you book 5 or 6 people, we will provide you with 1 bottle of Yering Station Shiraz or Pinot Noir (normally 420RMB per bottle). These are both my personal favourites at the moment.

We have one table for 8 people. If you book this whole table for 8 people, I will give the table one bottle of Chateau Chasse-Spleen 1997, which is VERY good wine. It sells for 990RMB per bottle.

We only have a small number of tables, so reservations must be made. Please PM me, or call on 1376 421 9559

Our main meal prices are priced between 80RMB and 140RMB and they are all great!

Also, between 6 and 6.30. FREE WINE AND FOSTERS DRAUGHT. As much as you can drink in that 30 minutes. The Wine will be limited to certain labels, but they will be good wines. The beer of course, being Fosters, is good beer. This is not just for people dining. This is anyone. Also, from 5.00pm onwards, all drinks 50% off until 10.00pm

This is only for ShanghaiExpat members and for valid Friday night. however, we are of course open everyday, so come and see us.

Senses
515 Jianguo Xi Lu, near Urumqi Lu

See you then.

The table for 8 has gone, but the offer of FREE WINE still stands on other bookings.

ALSO, FREE BEER AND WINE TO ANYONE BETWEEN 6.00 and 6.30 THIS FRIDAY!!!!!!

I checked this place out last night, and I was really impressed. I'm going to try to get some people together for another table, is anyone interested in joining me?

mat wrote:The beer of course, being Fosters, is good beer.

Please. . .

Fosters. . . good beer?

I couldn't comment on the wines you called 'good wines' above, but your lack of objectivity on the beer front is making me pretty dubious. . .

Fosters must qualify as Australia's worst beer by a mile. It sells well in England because the English love their low quality, watery, gassy lagers. Fosters is the antipodean equivalent of Reeb - although it must be admitted that Reeb is worse.

Coopers is an example of a good Australian beer, and available in Shanghai. The sparkling ale (red label) and the stout (blue label) are particularly good, the pale ale (green label) is a bit light on taste but pleasant enough. If you ran a promotion on that I would be in your bar in a flash.

Actually, why don't you list your beers here (with prices would be nice)? Let us all see what you have.

My husband and I were also there last week, and was very impressed.GREAT wine, and very nice decor and even Matt is nice !! You should check it out.
Sass!!

Maybe Mat could post his menu here too?

Bullitt, if the menu looks tempting I might be interested in popping in for a bite and a drink. No Fosters though. . .

I had some NZ lamb and it was quite good. I also had a nice Caesar...you should definitely check it out, his selection of wines is really impressive.

alrighty. you caught me out on the Fosters. I am talking it up a bit. It was either Fosters or Steinlager, and I'll be damned if I'll be an Aussie pouring NZ beer, so Fosters it was.

Yes, Coopers is OK. Trying to get some better beers. I have Asahi, Becks, Erdinger, Coors Light (Sorry), guiness, heineken, sol and steinlager. Wines, heaps of them. about 100.

Food menu for dinner. here it is

ENTREE
Soup of the day 25
Baked Lemon & Crab dip with warm bread. 40
Caeser Salad 40

MAIN
Spaghetti Bolognaise 80
Special Seafood Pasta 110
Grilled Sea Bass with Orange and Mango Sauce 110
Open Eye Fillet Steak Sandwich with Red Wine Sauce 120
NZ Lamb Cutlets with Rosemary 140

Come check us out. Especially our wine list.

Bullitt wrote:I checked this place out last night, and I was really impressed. I'm going to try to get some people together for another table, is anyone interested in joining me?

CanNOT miss it this time ... I am in!

D

Ok, I just spoke with Magnolia and she said that Ceasara and Annie would be interested. D is in too...anybody else?

Kiwi wrote:Please. . .

Fosters. . . good beer?

I couldn't comment on the wines you called 'good wines' above, but your lack of objectivity on the beer front is making me pretty dubious. . .

Fosters must qualify as Australia's worst beer by a mile. It sells well in England because the English love their low quality, watery, gassy lagers. Fosters is the antipodean equivalent of Reeb - although it must be admitted that Reeb is worse.

Coopers is an example of a good Australian beer, and available in Shanghai. The sparkling ale (red label) and the stout (blue label) are particularly good, the pale ale (green label) is a bit light on taste but pleasant enough. If you ran a promotion on that I would be in your bar in a flash.

your coment was so biting, i felt compelled to nitpick -- the coopers stout comes in a yellow label. also, I'd have to say that in the US, too, fosters only ever enjoyed popularity due to its widespread availability in the cheap, 32-oz(?) so-called mini-kegs. But if you like yellow lagers (not my favorite, but let's face it, the vast majority of beer drinkers do), then I must say that Foster's Draught is not a bad beer at all. I find it much better than Steinlager or half a dozen other "premium" lager drafts I see everywhere here. Try it, it beats the hell out of the cans. Anyway, hard to knock a guy giving away free wine. Sure, his place sounds a little classy and high-end for me, but if you're into that sort of thing, a free $40 bottle of wine is nothing to sneer at.

Kiwi,

if you must know the Foster's in UK is totally different to the Foster's here. In fact, I would dare to say it is better than the Coopers range of beers served in SH.

This is because Coopers has travelled all the way from Adelaide, probably to Melbourne on the back of a truck in the Australian heat, then 21 odd days across the ocean (and the equator) to Shanghai, on a non-refrigerated container. Anyone who knows about beers would know that travelling is not good for beer, nor wine for that matter.

At least, the Foster's Matt is serving is made locally and in a keg! So from a quality perspective it is much more consistent than Coopers! Oh, and Coopers would have more preservatives being an export product from Australia. About twice as much in fact.

Australians don't drink Foster's cos of some bad marketing during the John Elliott days of 1984. Is Bud a good beer because it is the biggest selling brand in the world?

Anyhow, are you looking for an excuse to shoot the guy down, before it's even really started.....is it the x-tasman rivalry coming out....



....ex brewer.

Provided I'm over the cold... or was it SARS... I'll be there on Friday.

Flifox, it is absolutely not some silly trans-tasman rivalry thing. I just disagree that Fosters is 'good beer' (and IMHO the same applies to Sol, Becks, Heineken, Coors Light, Asahi, Becks and even Steinlager).

I will confess I have a slight soft spot for Steinlager. I never drink it in NZ, but the NZ version is a touch hoppier than the other NZ mainstream lagers (DB Export etc.), which almost redeems it. But not much body and I don't much like the taste of the NZ barley. The China version of Steinlager is worse again, and very little hop character, but. . . it stacks up well against some of the foreign brands brewed here (Bud, Tiger etc. . .). So I drink it more in SH than I ever did in NZ (partly because of a lack of choices, and partly because of misplaced patriotism).

But. . . Steinlager recently decided to sell the brewery, and it seems like the taste has changed again. Hadn't drunk any for about three months, and then I had some down at O'Malleys last Friday night. Bloody dreadful! Maybe an aberation of course.

About the beers Mat has on offer. . . Erdinger and Guinness are both good. I like Guinness alot (and the HK/Malaysian versions that are the only ones usually available in China are nice, even if they are rather different to the original). Erdinger is a good beer. There are better wheat beers out there (Schneider Weiss is a classic), but Erdinger is about as good as you will get in Shanghai right now.

If I were Mat I would add Jever Pils, Hoegarden and Duvel as well. If I were running I wine bar I would want a small selection of high quality beers. The above are all classics in their category (German style pilsner, Belgian wheat beer, and Belgian ale), and available in Shanghai.

About quality consistency of Coopers. . . You may have a point. The Coopers stout is great when I drink it in NZ, and never seems so good in China. But I still prefer a slightly off peak Coopers to a Fosters in peak condition.

And finally, I am not getting at Mat. . . just commenting on beer.

I am a beer bore you see, so this is what I do.

Bullit, I might be interested for Friday. The steak sandwich sounds tempting. . . What time are you thinking?

Friday indeed sounds lovely. That Caesar salad (is it truly good? I'm picky about my Caesar salads...) and the Grilled Sea Bass with Orange and Mango Sauce have gotten my mouth watering.

The wine is the perfect cap to the evening. Closely followed by the half-price drinks post-dinner. What a brilliant promotional idea, mat.

What time, Bullitt?

Kiwi, I think we both agree that it is hard to find a good beer in SH!

No sshit. **** beer.

Besides, it's supposed to be a WINE bar, not a BEER bar (though I'm a beer drinker myself.)

Hmm. . . count me out for Friday.

Comming down with a bad cold.

does 7 sound ok? I have me, Holly_lotus, Mags, Caesara, annie, D, and skyline. So I'm going to PM mat for a 7 top at 7...did I get that right?

Jenn may be joining us ... but I am sure we can squeeze if needed. There are a few other people I have mentioned it to and they seemed interested ... will just ask them to meet us there if they decide to go ... I thought it was at 8:00?

I know I can't be there until at least 8:00 and probably the same for Caesara and Emily ... but we can always just come then ... just save us seats!

Why no Turkey Dinner with wine special on Thursday the 25th?

I need a real Turkey day feast!!!!!

AAA wrote:Why no Turkey Dinner with wine special on Thursday the 25th?

I need a real Turkey day feast!!!!!

Check out Malone's or O'Malley's!!! they both offer an all you can eat turkey deal

yeah, senses looks to be nice. good to have some aussies involved here - seems like nice management.

kirin is a great beer (if fosters is a benchmark) - available at lawsons..... and all good convenience stores.

ok, I'll get a table for 8 at 8 o'clock. I will probably be there earlier, so if anyone want to take down a bottle(or two) before dinner, let me know.

good work. see you all tomorrow night. As I advised Bullitt, I am throwing in two bottles of Rosemount for the table of 8.

Still have 3 tables for 4 left.

Also, the free beer and wine from 6.00pm to 6.30pm for all, and 1/2 price drinks until 10.00pm.

I'll definitely be there, probably 7ish. Maybe earlier. Day off today, so it depends on just how slovenly and lazy I plan to be. And so far... it's looking pretty bad!

if you get lost, our phone number is 5492 1655. Or, here is our address in Chinese.

上海市徐汇区建国西路515号 (近乌鲁木齐路)

Cool ... see ya all!!

D

Yeah, so that's what drunk feels like...