Posts Tagged ‘Friday Happy Hour’
Friday Happy Hour: Ginger Smash – Fall Version
This week has been busy, but just looking at my calendar for the next month or so is tiring. (Maybe the rest of the year, actually. I have already gotten enough holiday party invitations that I went ahead and scheduled my own before my guests booked up. Crazy.) In any event, I was grateful for [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Maple Derby at Black Jack
After what seemed like an extended “coming soon” period, followed by a week or so of soft-opening, 14th Street’s new Pearl Dive Oyster Bar is officially open, as is the upstairs bar, Black Jack. Black Jack is designed to be a fun, casual spot – complete with that buzzed-about indoor bocce pitch. They have a [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Sixpoint Righteous Ale
There was a lot of buzz surrounding the recent arrival of New Belgium in the DC market, but I was not that worked up about it. My nonchalance is largely a product of having lived in California with easy access to the stuff and so there was not much novelty in it for me. On [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Dark Punch at Patty Boom Boom
Sometimes Patty Boom Boom feels almost a little bit “secret.” As the numerous nightspots by the Hilton Brothers go, it seems to get a little less attention than its sister bars around the corner and down the street. The upstairs is reserved for dj nights which skew towards reggae and dub, the sounds of which [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: New Belgium Clutch
Local beer nerds have been atwitter for months over the long-anticipated arrival of beers from New Belgium Brewing in the DC market. In particular, there seemed to be a lot of curioristy about two newer beers in the brewery’s Lips of Faith big-bottle series, Clutch and Kick. I like a lot of the beers I [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Chocolate City Cerveza Nacional
Chocolate City Beer officially launched Thursday night, with a party at RFD which was among the most-anticipated events of 2011′s DC Beer Week. The new “nano-brewery” based in the Edgewood neighborhood of Northeast brought all four of their beers for the occasion: Big Chair IPA, Cornerstone Copper Ale, 1814 ESB, and Cerveza Nacional de la [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: GNR Lies
One of my favorite things about Room 11 is the taste of the folks behind the bar. On any given evening, there are only a couple of featured cocktails, but they are consistently interesting (as are the wine selections which take prominence on the menu). Wednesday evening, as they celebrated their second anniversary in business, [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Pickle Back
I was at the 9:30 Club on Wednesday night for Gilt’s private Yeasayer show, which was totally great but ended really early – right around 10:15 or so. As it wrapped up, my friend and I walked the half-block over to American Ice Co. and settled in at the bar for some post-show drinking and [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Riquitita Rickey
It is the season of the Rickey cocktail. Recently proclaimed the official potable of the District, everybody has been talking about Rickeys. As July, aka Rickey Month draws to a close, many bartenders around the city are featuring variations on the classic summer refreshment, culminating in an event at Jack Rose on Monday night. (Our [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: De La Sour
On a hot late-afternoon this week, just settling down at the long, cool, marble bar in (very air conditioned) Blackbyrd Warehouse was a pleasure. Having a tasty, interesting drink to sip on made it even better. Blackbyrd Warehouse opened last week to a fair amount of buzz – without even doing too much to promote. [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Reddrum
It is pretty out of the way for me, but I do enjoy stopping by Againn over on New York Ave for an early evening drink. Especially if one can beat the after-work happy hour crowd and grab one of the outside tables, it makes for a nice summer sundowner. To drink on at that [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Sangria at Estadio
Do you know there are places that do not serve things like sangria at lunch on weekdays? Or technically will serve it, but you might be the only table in the place drinking while everybody else is sipping Diet Coke because they have to go back to the office? Apparently in DC this is pretty [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Mid City Caffe Cappuccino
Do you see that cappuccino in the photo? That is a cappuccino made with love. How, you might ask, do I know it was made with love? Because I told the kid making it to make it with love. It helps, of course, that the barista in question is one of my very favorite people/best [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Avery India Pale Ale
Thursday night was an evening of my favorite things. My favorite DC food truck, TaKorean parked outside one of my favorite coffee shops, Chinatown Coffee Co. for one of Chinatown’s brilliant “Food Truck Happy Hours.” With my delicious Korean-inspired tofu tacos, I enjoyed another of my favorite things: Imbibing a tasty beer. The beer/wine/absinthe alcohol [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: PKNY
If there is a better spot in DC to go with a friend for a drink and a lot of talking than the courtyard patio of Bourbon Steak, in the Georgetown Four Seasons, I do not know where it is. The spot is utterly peaceful – there are comfortable outdoor sofa things to lounge on, [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Teaism Chai Shake
When I was in high school in Dupont Circle, I had a friend who worked part-time at the R Street Teaism. Occasionally, to amuse herself during shifts, she would play a bit with the yuppies and faux-autheticity-seeking customers who came along. When one of them ordered the chai shake, she would “correct” their pronunciation. “The [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: 3 Stars Syndicate
With all the excitement about the recent launch of DC Brau you could be forgiven for missing the slightly-quieter drop of a second DC based beer company, Three Stars Brewing – but, if so, it is high time you found out. Debuting with their Syndicate saison, brewed in collaboration with Evolution in Delaware, the seasonally-appropriate [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Granita Cocktails at Casa Nonna
Wednesday started out pretty poorly for me. One of my favorite people celebrated his birthday on Tuesday night (his “actual” birthday, following the “pre-birthday” celebrations at U Hall on Saturday, mind you) and things got a bit saturated. I woke up the next morning feeling pretty sick. After some coffee and water, I got around [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Stillwater Ales Jaded
This 2011 American Craft Beer Week has been marked with many events around the DC area – some of which will carry on in the craft beer spirit all though SAVOR next month. While I appreciate the concept, I generally prefer to keep Craft Beer Week in my heart year round and avoided most of [...]
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