Maxwell Park
A second home for Washington's wine geeks, Maxwell Park offers an extensive list of about 500 wines that’s refreshingly thoughtful and approachable.
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The Dabney
The Dabney's wine program is focused, deep and affordable, offering about 150 different wines, 15 of which are available by the glass.
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Southern Efficiency
More a whiskey bar than a cocktail bar, Southern Efficiency is Derek Brown's third single-subject bar (among Eat the Rich and Mockingbird Hill) along a stretch of 7th Street. Perhaps…
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Dacha Beer Garden
Dacha isn't an official gay bar, but you wouldn’t know it by the crowd. On warm nights, beneath a massive, three-story mural of a young Elizabeth Taylor that looms over…
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Eat the Rich
A practice in the balance of high-low drinking culture, Miller High Life, muscadet and Malpeque oysters all share the same bar counter at this venue from Derek Brown (who has…
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Ivy & Coney
Do you miss Chicago? Do you miss Detroit? Ivy & Coney is your bar. Do you like hot dogs and cheap beer? Ivy & Coney is also your bar. The…
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Mockingbird Hill
Derek Brown and Chantal Tseng's love letter to sherry, ham and coffee is just one piece of Brown's 7th Street empire (down the way are Eat the Rich and Southern Efficiency, his…
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