Located at the top of Nali Patio, this chic restaurant boasts stunning design and a seasonal menu that puts new twists on Spanish cuisine. Migas is also one ofSanlitun's hottest nightlife spots, with a bar and rooftop deck that are popular year-round.

The walls are trimmed in modern graffiti artwork. Deconstructed dining comes at spare tables with exposed grain-top surrounded in a mix-and-match of mid-century chairs. Outside, a rooftop terrace overlooks the Beijing skyline, when it’s clear enough to see much of it, with futuristic arrangement of pod-shape cabanas and sectional seating surrounded in desert landscaping.

Migas has a menu of small tastings meant to be shared alongside a selection of wines by the glass including three different makers of Tempranillo that can be sipped in the dining room, in the interior bar or, during spring or summer, upstairs on what may be Beijing’s best rooftop bar. The word ‘migas’ means ‘crumbs’, and they playfully appear throughout the menu. A classic Spanish favorite involves a rub of tomato pulp on bread with a drizzle of fine olive oil and salt that tastes of the sea.

The creamy cod and steamed eggplant is a must for bacalao lovers, and this version of salted cod doesn’t get better. A quenelle of soft eggplant snuggles up to a beautiful white spread that makes us long again for better bread. The red wine and sugar-braised oxtail will remind some of grape jelly flavors, an abhorrence for those who shy away from sweet mains, particularly when the menu description gives no such hint. Whatever your taste, it still begs for a splash of something tart to cut through the saccharine coat.

Open: 11:30 am - 3:00 pm; 6:30 - 10:30pm daily

Add: 6/F, Nali Patio, 81 Sanlitun Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing