Washington Bars
Things to do in Washington
A place where everyone knows your name. Washington DC Bars ! Sometimes you just need to get out of the house and away from your everyday surroundings. Sometimes you've made a date to meet someone. And sometimes you just want to go someplace where people are having a good time. Take a look at these favorite bars and nightclubs at HelloWashingtonDC.com and pick your spot. There's detailed information concerning the best nightspots in Washington, including directions on how to get there.
Here's a ubiquitous bar/ restaurant in the middle of the Adams Morgan strip, an undefined existence of bar food and drinks, party scene and quiet drink spot. Themed like the DC Metro but serving bar favorites like the infamous Adams Morgan scene, Grand Central seems to be a good meeting point for several customer types when it comes to drinking, eating and general hanging out.
Drinks in DC are best consumed outside, accented with twinkling strings of lights or glowing tealights, in a summer frock or short-sleeves, with a hint of Washington humidity hovering overhead. After all, that's why we're drinking in the first place – to cool down and to slow down.
There's nothing like a low-key evening of games and drinks with friends and acquaintanances, both of which can be accomplished at Buffalo Billiards, Dupont Circle's spacious bunion of a bar.
What better way to gentrify a former prostitution/ drug strip than to place a wine bar there? That's what the befittingly-named Cork did, signifying the start of the end to Logan Circle's sketchy neighborhood into the latest scenester in Washington. Cork is as one expects from a wine bar: a low-key atmosphere, where it's very normal to drink wine, a minimalist-chic décor with straight lines and bottles displayed on the wall, knowledgeable bartenders who also give the impression that wine is very
Kooper’s Tavern is the quintessential Baltimore restaurant: good food, good beer, Orioles/ Ravens on TV, bartenders and wait staff who know your name, view of the harbor upstairs and its ships that sail by and a faint aura of Old Bay floating in the air. There’s also a touch of class (especially evident in its ingredients and menu) involved that makes it acceptable and inviting to bring out-of-towners and parents to seek out this local stop.
Situated on the corner of Broadway and Lancaster, Max’s Taphouse is a serious conquest. If you’re a beer aficionado, you can taste your heart out with its extensive list of hundreds of beers on tap and in bottles, from alemakers around the world and right here in Baltimore. It will take you several weeks or months, or even years, before you can complete the enormous beer list.
As nightclubs come and go, The Birchmere is clearly here to stay.
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