The Tree 隐蔽的树-比利时啤酒花园
43 Bei Sanlitun Nan,
Sanlitun
100 meters west of Sanlitun North Bar Street
北三里屯南43号
三里屯酒吧街西100米
6415-1954
Open 10am-2am
Price Y100-Y199 per couple
This Venue has been nominated for a Reader's Choice Award 2010 in the category Beijing - Best Pizza
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This expansive place gets absolutely packed on the weekends, so arrive early. A wide selection of imported beers (ask which ones are from Belgium) and an extensive drink menu complement their delicious oven-fired, thin crust pizza, some of the best in Beijing.
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Formerly known as the "Hidden Tree" located in another part of Sanlitun, this wondrous place picked up and relocated to the heart of the Sanlitun back street area around the corner from Kai Bar. And once you find the place you may be surprised to see how packed it can get on a weekend and how expansive the interior is. The centerpiece of the restaurant floor lets you watch the chefs do their thing with rollers, dough, and brick ovens, and the bar stretches long enough to meander and mingle freely. They boast a wide selection of imported beers (ask which ones are from Belgium) and an extensive drink menu, but their food menu mainly serves to compliment their virtually-best-in-Beijing pizzas, which is why you came here hungry in the first place, right? One pizza is small enough for one person and large enough to share, and will cost anywhere from 45-75元 depending on the amount and kind of toppings. And if you make it out on a weekday, 11am-2:30pm they offer a special lunch menu. Highly recommended if you're in the area.
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I dunno if I had bad luck or the chef was pissed off when I went there, I had the worst pizza in my life.
Once the chef realized he threw in the wrong topping, he picked some of them up and threw in the right one in. That was the pizza of my day.
I guess some people just can't have their good stuff goin'.
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Hi, [HTML_REMOVED]chinafreddy[HTML_REMOVED].
We do not deliver as we are busy enough preparing pizza in house. It may be cold out there, but it is toasty warm once you arrive and apart from the pizza a few Belgian beers will always warm you up!
If that doesn't tempt you from your pit, Beijing Goodies (http://www.beijinggoodies.com/en/index.php), or weliveinbeijing (http://beijing.weliveinchina.com/delivery/restaurant.rails) both offer a delivery service.
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why dont you guys deliver? Its so cold out there....
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If you're looking for good Italian-style pizza, this is absolutely not it. I don't understand why it's so popular! For the second time mine came out a little burnt, and the cheese is really heavy, plastic, greasy, and bland. Blech. If it's the best pizza in Beijing I feel very sorry for Beijingers! But, unfortunately, I have no counter-recommendation. I'm sticking with American-style Kro's! To be fair, the waitstaff was very accommodating to an 8-person party and the pizzas came out quickly on a busy night.
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Despite its weird and sometimes scarry location, The Tree is still one of my favorite beer hangouts. The selection of the beers is really great, the staff is not hard to go by with, the vibe is usually good and pizzas are great (though not the best in the city as some claim - still close enough to perfection). I especially love the Chimay Blue label beer (the 750ml bottle)... It's enough to get you well wasted and is always better drank if shared. The only problem of the place is the fiery furnace of the pizza oven in the middle of the big patio-like room.. it doesn't really help to bring down the heat from outside.
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so i'm right here and i'm just going to be straight. i ordered a super fine cheese pizza (cant be bothered with the name right now) with the rolled-up pizza thing they have going on in here. so this is prolly my 155th time and it's always THE BEST pizza in town and i mean it. so, 155th time here and second time with this cheese pizza rolled-up thing. and my pizza was served with the cheese, well, COLD, not, melted. i'm just morbidly concerned that it's not consistent with the previous time i was here. i even took a photo then. so, i was nicely asking the fuwuyuan (girl) to heat it up for me, get it melted. she (she was rude to take orders today, prolly her dog got sick or sthg) said, no, it's like this. i'm like, no, it's not supposed to be. it's supposed to be melted, like, u know, MELTED. she said NO. she got her colleague to help, i was in chinese and english. both of them ARGUED with me, saying it's, like this. i'm like, get me ur manager. David was awesome, he got it fixed. i mean, if the lovely customer wants her cheese melted, just, DO IT. come on. David, thank you, you're really nice and i'm sorry but u gotta teach your fuwuyuan's some basic courtesy and manners. how hard is it to get the cheese melted? u want extra 5 kuai for the coal? just say it, we'll pay it. names of 2 fuwuyuans are withheld here.
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We were here on the weekend. They have too much of a crowd and cant handle. The waiters delay taking orders. There are misses in the food. One of our group members food was missed. We waited ,then shared our food. But the missed food took a long time to come. Best to avoid this place on the weekends.
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No, it's not the best pizza in town, but it is good. Especially if you're one of those who don't really grasp the American approach to pizza: what looks like a loaf of bread covered in (mediocre) cheese and whatever was in the fridge.
Thin crust, good cheese and ingredients. Acceptable beer and wine selection, and it's always crowded.
But I simply cannot understand how service can be so appalling. Using the "oh-but-there-are-a-lot-of-customers" excuse doesn't work. It's one of the most popular restaurants in Beijing, management should expect numerous patrons and deal with that accordingly. The waiters/waitresses are shockingly rude and incompetent. It's enough to make me willing to pay a little more in other places where I don't have to beg to pay 300 kuai for a pizza and a bottle of wine.
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mushroom soup is nice..pizza dont say about it,cos absolutely good.. but if u eat at there ,u have to understand that it has many customer,so the service is not good too much..
it's not the best pizza in beijing,but i think it can be top of five..
so we always go to there having dinner when we want to eat pizza..in the cozy house..^^
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Tucked away in a dark alley behind sanlitun, comes a great pizza place under a tree. The pizzas are thin, tasty and guaranteed a smile. The ambiance is cozy and quaint. The beers are plentiful with many european imports. The service needs more work and so does the spaghetti. A perfect little spot under the tree to hang out with good friends.
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Booze selection is excellent. They've got some of my favorite beers (Hoegaarden and Beamish) on tap. The pizza is not bad, but not the superlative experience that it's made out to be, and it doesn't come for cheap either. Good flavors but a soggy, sorry excuse for a crust. Perhaps it's the wonderful cheese juices weighing everything down. Or maybe it's just complacency? Anyway, like zachary_franklin I advise heading there with realistic expectations. That way you'll get to enjoy some good Belgian beers, stuff yourself with above-average bar food and soak in the packed pub vibes of the place.
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Great Oven only ,but surley not an Italian ,or Even New World way of making the Pizza, not generous at all ! the stuff atittude quit !!???? , however is the place for belgiume Beer nothing more & hoping the owner can do something about it !!!! we will be there just if Sunlitune is too crowded !!!??
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Food quality is the one which is why people keep going here. we too had a nice pizza , however the service is an issue , but i guess is the problem in most places. the prices seasons bit high, okay for beijing may be i will visit again surely if there is someone who loves pizza and i will join him !
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Amazing service. You can come, sit down, wait and wave for 20 min and there still will be no attention. My last visit -and it's not that it was my choice to begin with - was exactly like this. 20 minutes long. Do not understand the owner's attitude to the situation.
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For me, the best pizzas in Beijing, for sure
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I stumbled upon The Tree on a rainy Friday evening after a particularly challenging yoga class. Needless to say, I was soaked and starving and finding The Tree seemed like a godsend at the time. Tucked behind the raucous Sanlitun Bar Street, The Tree offers weary customers (such as myself), families, and partygoers alike a refuge from the craziness of the city outside. Frank Sinatra plays softly in the background, the smell of wood-fired pizza fills the air, and the congenial clink of beer glasses can be heard throughout the restaurant.
In addition to its charming ambience, The Tree also boasts some of the best pizza in Beijing. Baked in a wood-fired oven located in the center of the restaurant, the pizza comes out perfectly crispy, packed with flavor, and oozing with real mozzarella cheese (not the fake, stringy type that I’ve come to associate with Pizza Huts in China). Wash down the delicious pizzas with a tall glass of Hoegaarden or one of the many other Belgian-brewed beers listed on their extensive drink menu. If you ever find yourself needing to get away from the tacky, loud clubs and crowds of drunken expats in Sanlitun, head straight to The Tree.
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pizza is ok laaa... not so wow. why they keep boasting about the pizza? the beer instead is a treat. every time i go there, i try different kind of beers. great taste! i tried their lasagna, which is better than their pizza. really good lasagna. and also their steak is really good. tender. cooked exactly like what i asked them to.
the ambience is nice. sort of like a pub. i like it. the service at the other hand was just oh-so-not-good. a fuwuyuan came in hurry when i called her, didnt say anything just dropped the menu on our table and left, while we were in the middle of ordering food she left again. finally we got all of our orders fixed. whew... bad service bad service...
but will go back again for the beer and ambiance.
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beer selection is good. terrible service-- our waitress came over to our table when we were in the middle of dinner and asked us to change tables because there was another party waiting for ours. Don't know why they couldn't given them another table... Pizza was bad, something in that tomato sauce tasted real funky.
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It's for sure a nice pub style restaurant, especially during summer and because of their fabulous selection of beer, but i don't get why so many people go there again and again for the pizza. I am not a big fan of pizza anyways but it was just a boring piece of dough with tasteless toppings and and even more tasteless chess. The salad was drowned in dressing.
The beer is good.
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One of the unfortunate realities of seeing a restaurant nominated for an award is that it often inflates said individual's opinion of the establishment even before setting foot in the door — people sit down with too many opinions.
Try as one might to remain optimistic about The Tree, the "virtually-best-in-Beijing" pizzas are average. The Tree does an excellent job with the ingredients, and there is no denying the near-perfect flavor they cook up via those big brick ovens. But the pizzas fall flat on the ground when it comes to the crust.
Charred black pizza bottoms can put a hamper on anyone's eating experience. One individual a table over had the unfortunate experience of receiving their meal with the center of the pizza missing — we're talking a few centimeters of diameter cut out of pizza.
While I can't knock The Tree on its beverage selection — anyone serving Chimay has amazing taste in beer — there are other alternatives throughout Beijing with properly baked pizzas.
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Was there on 28APR'08 evening. I agreed with "amyvicious "(see her above review)with regards to the poor service.No one bothers to light my candle on my table when we sat. My gf & my plates looks normal but I got a habit to wipe my plates with serviettes b4 i start using them.OMG, the serviettes turns black after I wipe them...I told the waitress to change it and she stiill use the serviette to clean again to ensure that I am not lying!! Oh by the way, can the Management of The Tee pls clarify if credit card are acceptable? If it is acceptable, why did the waitress rejects both my cards(International & local cards)? If it is not acceptable, Cityweek-end guys pls remove the clause above "Accepts International Credit Cards". Besides I am unhappy with the service, I really feel that the pizza here is not impressive enuff for a big "who-haa". It taste normal...very pub style..a little too salty but I like the soft crust.Portion is not value for money. And the chairs here are scary! The 1st chair I sat on, had a loose nail that nearly tore my jeans. The 2nd chair(after I changed) had loose joints and legs....Luckily I am aleart enuff to change for a 3rd chair which barley passed-off. I do agree that they serve many different kinds of Belgium beer...however, the prices is not cheap. a 250ML(no indication on the menu that it is 250ml...i feel that I got cheated) hoegarden draft cost RMB35? I can get a 500ML hoegarden draft for RMB55 or lesser at many good pubs & restaurants in Beijing. I give 2 out of 5 stars for Tree being a good "down-to-earth" ambience boozing place...but I do not think that it is a place for you to travel just to have the pizza...it just taste normal.
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Nice enough place, good beer selection, and cool decorations. The pizza is a bit bland, though they make it well. I like the place, but its more for the academic then for the 'blue collar' guy/gal.
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We have been their last night.It was ok but the pizza was so small that we could not satishfied although we had order some lasagne and salads.any way their beer selection were vast and many choices from belgium.
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The tree is a rather stright forward bar that made me feel like in mid-europe. The italian-style pizza is good, but not outstanding and the prices are steep (70Q for a small pizza). The tree seems to be a hub for 40 year old western people.
All in all, fair enough, but would benefit from lower prices.
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Very nice bartenders, TERRIBLE TABLE SERVICE. I had a waitress leave while I was in the middle of placing an order and since she never came back, I ordered at the bar. I also had a couple slices of pizza left on my plate & I was rummaging through some stuff and the waitress came over, slammed a pile of dirty dishes down, and whisked it away. The bar was not full at the time... perhaps some of the surly waitresses took a break from standing around to make off with a pile of clean dishes, leaving the kitchen in a bind?
Ok, I get that we're in Beijing, I get that there are a lot of rude expat patrons at The Tree (SLT in general) but that still doesn't excuse crappy service. Especially when I'm dropping over 200 yuan on my tab.
I did place a complaint (and compliment to the bar) to the bartender and he said, "yeah sorry about it we know" so I guess I'm not the first one to notice.
Maybe it's part of the ambience? I don't get it. All the bars I frequented in Belgium had very nice servers.
Anyway, since they didn't have De Koninck on tap the three/four times I went and the pizza is ok but nothing to write home about, I've switched to grabbing my drunk grub around the corner at the doner kebab place and getting my Belgian beer at any of the growing number of fine establishments in the city that keep it on the menu.
If you do need a Tree fix, get a seat at the bar.
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Hi cynthjeany:
Thanks for your kind comments.
We do offer a range of Belgian Lambic Fruit beer. Try them and enjoy next time you visit!
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great restaurant! great pizza! great beer! just a little salty on the salad but overall it's a great experience to dine at The Tree Belgian Beer Bar. Arrive early for a quieter environment as it gets really busy after a while. side question: will they offer fruit beer?
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Pizza is good, beer selection cool but they need improve service especially on the weekends. Guys avoid weekends if you have a special occasion or if you are too hungry and cant wait. Guys who dont have patience to deal with difficult waitstaff avoid this place.