Bars

“The Royal in LeDroit Park Celebrates its First Anniversary on Monday, 6/27 with Free Cold Brew Ice Pops, All-Day Happy Hour + Launch of its Brand New Summer Rosita Vermouth”

By Prince Of Petworth

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501 Florida Ave, NW

From a press release:

“The Royal is celebrating one year in LeDroit Park on Monday, June 27 with a day of festivities, specials and free icy treats to show its appreciation to the loyal customers, neighbors and community which has supported its first year in business.

The all-day coffee shop-cocktail bar-restaurant hybrid will give away free Cold Brew Ice Pops to guests, made from Counter Culture Coffee’s limited-release Cold Hearted coffee steeped for 10 hours, with a house cold brew syrup and milk (one per customer). (more…)

Lebowski Fest at The Pub & The People Saturday at 5pm!

By Prince Of Petworth

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From an email:

“Lebowski Bash! @ The Pub and the People
1648 North Capitol Street, NW
When: Saturday, July 25th, starting at 5pm

Movie Character Costume Contest! (Winner gets a $50 gift certificate!)
$3 Oat Sodas (Coors Light Drafts)
$5 Jailbreak Feed the Monkey Hefeweizen
$6 White Russians with Tito’s Vodka”

Favorite Lebowski quote? Go!

“You’re not wrong Walter. You’re just an asshole.”

801 Restaurant & Bar coming to the former Dunya space in Shaw this July

By Prince Of Petworth

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801 Florida Ave, NW

801’s website says:

“Set to open this July, 801 Restaurant & Bar will serve dinner 7 days a week and brunch on weekends. We are looking forward to offering our guests a delicious food and beverage menu in a chic and welcoming environment in the Shaw neighborhood. 801 will feature a dining room spanning over 2 floors, with 3 bars and a rooftop deck.”

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This is from the folks at the DC Restaurant Group who also now own Shaw’s Tavern (and others, Front Page etc.) Stay tuned for an exact opening date.

Ed. Note: Dunya abruptly closed back in June:

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Mockingbird Hill closing for the Summer – Will Reopen as a cocktail bar (but you can still got lots of sherry and ham)

By Prince Of Petworth

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1843 7th Street, NW

From a press release:

“Mockingbird Hill (1843 7th Street NW), the James Beard Award-nominated sherry and ham bar led by premier spirits expert Derek Brown, will close for the duration of the summer, beginning Sunday, June 26, to undergo remodeling.

Design and architecture firm Edit Lab at Streetsense, which recently rebuilt Brown’s Columbia Room to much acclaim, will re-envision Mockingbird Hill as a cocktail bar, continuing to offer sherry by the glass and hand-carved ham, but with a major expansion of its cocktail program. (more…)

Sneak Peek of La Jambe (Legit French Wine Bar) Opening in Shaw Thursday

By Prince Of Petworth

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1550 7th Street, NW

La Jambe legit. How so? In the El Solian way of “A Real Mexican Restaurant Run by Real Mexicans Cooking in the Kitchen”. The owner is French and she has created a spectacular space. Spectacular I say because of the details which you’ll see in the photos after the jump. But I can say it’s very hard to turn a totally new construction into a warm, cool, comfortable spot to hang out. Happily La Jambe has done it (and they weren’t even 100% finished when I stopped by to take some preview photos last week.)

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In addition to wine, you may recall, La Jambe will also feature Charcuterie & Fromagerie. I’m told for the menu you can expect:

“several “mise en bouche” starters including olives with herbes de provence, mortadella salad, and house made rillettes. We’ll be arranging several boards pairing Europe’s finest charcuterie and lots of tasty French cheese. There will also be sandwiches featuring those same charcuterie and cheeses on freshly made French baguettes, and for dessert, we’ll be doing a café/thé/vin gourmand, where your drink of choice is served with three mini-desserts.”

Standby for a 5pm opening this Thursday at 7th and Q St, NW across the street from Dacha. I haven’t been this excited about a wine bar opening since Cork kicked things off way back in the day (RIP Sparky’s) on 14th Street.

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Lots more photos of the awesome details after the jump. (more…)

Madam’s Organ continues cool streak taking DC School Kids to the Beach

By Prince Of Petworth

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From an email:

“4Daysx3Nights x 30Kids x 20Years = A Million Memories

Every year for the past 19 years on the first Monday after school lets out, the staff and friends of Madam’s Organ Blues Bar in Washington D.C. take 30 kids from the tougher side of Adams Morgan to Dewey Beach, Delaware. A big swimming pool, boating excursions, clamming and catching crabs, cook-outs, surf, sun and a beach bonfire? It sounds like everyone’s dream!!

And for 4 days every year the kids are living that dream!!”

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2461 18th Street, NW

At Last – All Souls Patio Opens (with limitations) in Shaw!

By Prince Of Petworth

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8th and T Street, NW courtesy All Souls

From an email:

“We worked long and hard with our ANC reps to reach a settlement agreement that would be beneficial to both the neighborhood and the bar. There are only a few items that will really affect people. The first is that we will have limited hours. Monday through Thursday 6pm-10pm (until school is out for the summer then we can open at 5pm – this is actually an ABRA rule when a bar is located across from a school), Friday 6pm-12am, Saturday 4pm-12am and Sunday 4pm -10pm. We’ll probably open earlier on weekends if there is a demand.

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The next item is that we agreed we would have a seated only patio. There was a concern about this space being a densely populated “beer garden” on the residential side of our building. So we will have a limited number of seats (33) and will only serve seated patrons, but we’ll have table service to make it easier for everyone. The patio will be non-smoking. This will prevent our indoor patrons from coming outside to hang out and smoke. So we will ask everyone to smoke outside in the front of the building where we have provided a smoking pole for cigarette butts. (more…)

It’s Official – Angles and Little Fountain have Sold, Last Day is July 31st

By Prince Of Petworth

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2339 18th Street, NW

Last week I mentioned that no matter how hard you try you can not stop the winds of change. And sometimes that’s OK. Owners Patrick and Kim have been operating the bar and restaurant for coming on 23 years. And 23 years in Adams Morgan, surviving all the ups and downs is really 46 years. As I said last week, this place was really special to me. And it was really special to many others. It was a neighborhood bar for a neighborhood that didn’t really have a neighborhood bar (no offense to Millie & Al’s, RIP) when they opened in ’95 (Little Fountain opened a couple years earlier in ’93.) Anyway why was this spot so special to me and many others? Like any good neighborhood, it is because of the people. And the people came because of Patrick and Kim.

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Patrick looking wistful remembering the good times and the tough times but mostly the good times

Now this may sound a bit ridiculous – but Patrick is a little bit like ‘the most interesting man in the world’ from those beer commercials. And when you’re incredibly interesting you attract an incredibly interesting clientele. And bike messengers. I kid, I kid. But seriously some of those bike messengers were crazy. Hell almost every regular in that place was a bit crazy. (more…)

“New Live Music Venue & Karaoke Bar” BUCKEYE + BEAR Opening in Dupont June 18th

By Prince Of Petworth

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Rendering of The Ballroom at BUCKEYE + BEAR.

From a press release:

“Live entertainment gets a remix this summer when BUCKEYE + BEAR, the unique new live music venue and sports bar, launches June 18 in the heart of Dupont (1730 M Street NW).

The eclectic 280-person venue features an exciting rotating weekly entertainment schedule, including multi-genre live entertainment, costume karaoke, comedy shows and trivia nights spread over two distinct spaces — The Ballroom and The Green Room. (more…)

Exiles Bar now open in former Stetson’s space on U Street – Check Out the Menu; Brunch Coming Soon

By Prince Of Petworth

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1610 U Street, NW

Exiles soft opened over the weekend, “grand opening slated for the end of June”, from an email:

“We plan to roll out a brunch service in the next few weeks, at the moment we are open at 4:30 Monday to Friday and 3:00 Saturday and Sunday. We will also be open until 2am Sunday-Thursday and 3am Saturday and Sunday.”

Check out the menus after the jump. (more…)

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