Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
An awesome, welcoming spot filled with local beer buffs. With its concrete floor, exposed ducts and hodgepodge of tables, the taproom mightn't look like…
Must-see nightlife in Washington, DC
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Right Proper Brewing makes sublime ales in a building that shares a wall with the joint where Duke Ellington used to play pool. It's the Shaw district's…
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Washington, DC
Bar Charley draws a mixed crowd from the neighborhood – young, old, gay and straight. They come for groovy cocktails sloshing in vintage glassware and…
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Washington, DC
When you walk into Copycat it feels like a Chinese fast-food restaurant. That's because it is (sort of) on the 1st floor, where Chinese street-food…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Stepping into Primrose is like being in Paris and finding the quintessential cafe hidden down a tiny lane. The ostrich-feathered chandeliers, turquoise…
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Washington, DC
Grab a table, pull up a stool and crush your opponent at Hungry Hungry Hippos. Or cozy up to a serious game of Scrabble. Board Room lets you flash back to…
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Songbyrd Record Cafe & Music House
Washington, DC
By day hang out in the retro cafe, drinking excellent coffee, munching sandwiches and browsing the soul and indie LPs for sale. You can even cut your own…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
The best jukebox in DC, a dark interior crammed with locals and lovers, that neon lighting that casts you under a glow Edward Hopper should rightly have…
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Washington, DC
This is one of DC's great dive bars. The interior looks sort of like an evil Elks Club, all unironically old-school 'art,' cheap paneling and dim lights…
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Right Proper Brewing Co Brookland Production House
Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Right Proper started out as a small brewery in Shaw, but it had to expand to this Brookland facility. Now both sites make beer, with Brookland as the more…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Happiness reigns in Dacha's freewheeling beer garden. Kids and dogs bound around the picnic tables, while adults hoist glass boots filled with German…
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Washington, DC
Tucked in the basement underneath the acclaimed Dabney restaurant, the Cellar pours loads of wines by the glass, including many varietals by hard-to-find,…
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Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar
Washington, DC
If Alice had returned from Wonderland so traumatized by her near beheading that she needed a stiff drink, we imagine she’d pop down to Little Miss Whiskey…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Coppery, mod-industrial Churchkey glows with hipness. Fifty beers flow from the taps, plus five brain-walloping, cask-aged ales. If none of those please…
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Washington, DC
Besides being one of DC's best places to grab frites and steak au poivre, Granville Moore’s has an extensive Belgian-beer menu that should satisfy any fan…
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Washington, DC
Beer-lovers' heads will explode in Bluejacket. Pull up a stool at the mod-industrial bar, gaze at the silvery tanks bubbling up the ambitious brews, then…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Two local DJs own and operate the basement club; it looks like a no-frills rock bar, but it has a pro sound system, a cork-cushioned dance floor and other…
Washington, DC
Walk into Jack Rose and you know you’ve hit the whiskey jackpot. Hundreds of bottles stack the shelves – 2687 bottles, to be exact. It's the largest…
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Washington, DC
The Country Club is three levels of great. The bottom floor is packed with pool tables, skeeball and shuffleboard, while the upper floor contains its own…
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Washington, DC
Sprawled by the river in the shadow of Nationals Park, Bardo feels post-apocalyptic. Silver fermentation tanks rise from the dirt, dogs lope around rusted…
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Washington, DC
Firefly is a restaurant first – the Hotel Madera’s restaurant, to be precise – but we’re not listing it for those merits. We can say it’s one of the…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
DC Brau was the first craft brewer in town. It continues to pump out bodacious pale ales, IPAs and porters that are widely available around DC, but you…
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Washington, DC
Is the wine made here world class? No. But the space is really cool. It's enormous, with steel tanks fermenting the juice in back, and a clean-lined,…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Welcome to DC's largest crowd-funded distillery, and its only women-owned one at that. Vodka, bourbon, rye whiskey and apple brandy emerge from the tanks…
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Washington, DC
Chandeliers, velvet sofas, antique wallpaper and a ridiculously good-looking, dance-loving crowd adorn this multifloored mansion. The DJs – spinning funk,…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Room 11 isn’t much bigger than an ambitious living room, and as such it can get pretty jammed. On the plus side, everyone is friendly, the intimacy is…
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Washington, DC
One of five DC branches of the specialist coffee roaster, this La Colombe occupies a vintage brick garage in Blagden Alley. The long space is drenched in…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
The distillery cooks up bourbon, gin and vodka that gets stirred into cocktails in the attached cozy bar, the Murray Hill Club. It has a casually swanky,…
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Washington, DC
Cafe Citron is one of DC’s most popular Latin-music clubs (in fairness, it plays everything, but the focus is on salsa, bachata et al). Girls dance, guys…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Welcome to a hipster-punk lounge where the bartenders know patrons' names, the sweet-potato fries soak up the beer ordered from the impressively long list…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Wonderland embodies the edgy, eccentric Columbia Heights vibe to perfection. The interior is clapped out with so many vintage signs and found objects it…
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Washington, DC
Tune Inn has been helping the thirsty since 1947. Mounted deer heads stare from the wall and watch over old-timers knocking back Budweisers at the bar…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Named for DC native son Marvin Gaye, this spot is a low-lit lounge and bistro downstairs, serving mostly southern fare. Upstairs, the splendid roof deck…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
With its high-backed wooden booths, chain-wrapped lights and flickering candles, Hank's feels both modern and medieval. It's dark and slightly eerie,…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
The Saloon doesn't allow patrons to pack in like sardines, with posted rules against standing between tables. That’s great, because the added elbow room…
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Washington, DC
Owned by an Ethiopian family, Sidamo offers excellent, organic African coffee, tasty and strong as hell. There’s friendly staff and that just-right…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
Meridian Pint is the quintessential corner tavern for hipster Columbia Heights. Strings of lights twinkle overhead, sports flicker on TV, folks play pool…
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Logan Circle, U Street & Columbia Heights
PUB opens every few months with a new, timely theme. For instance, when Game of Thrones started its new season, it became a GoT bar, complete with Iron…
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Upper Northwest DC
Washington’s most authentic Irish pub has been a favorite with real and wannabe Irish people for decades. You won’t find any cheesy shamrock schlock or…
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Washington, DC
Button-down shirts are de rigueur at this gay hangout frequented by the 20- and 30-something, work-hard-and-play-hard set. Some DC residents claim that…
