It's one of those cool-in-summer, warm-in-winter basement pubs that offers a full menu of cocktails and bar bites, but where you can really only picture yourself drinking Jameson. Read more.
Keeping on the legal intoxicants tip, there are also 20 drafts on tap... with "toasted lager" being one of the choices. Mellow Mushroom, dude. Check it out. Read more.
As the name implies, it's red. It's small, expertly designed, vaguely Parisian. This is the sort of place where you sort of curl away into the corner with a rum cocktail, perhaps a "San Juan Swizzle" Read more.
Where to go? Lounge on the lush, leafy, Astroturf-floored Sky Bar roof, nibbling on small plates while sipping craft cocktails and point out that "they look like a bunch of little ants from here." Read more.
Offering a selection of icy craft cocktails, this new addition to the D.C. swelter promises to lay a variety of craft cocktails over beds of merciful ice, thus cooling you down and making you wittier. Read more.
It's the sort of place where we can pull up to the feathered bar, make a less-witty-than-it-sounded-in-our-head remark to the burlesque dancer & order the sort of cocktail that killed Paul Verlaine. Read more.
You know the whole seasonal/market/don't-eat-processed-garbage trend has reached its apogee when guys like us start taklking about preserves. This place has them all Read more.
Call them 24 hours in advance of your RSVP, discuss your tastes, filling-wise, & their chef will prepare a creative interpretation of your personal hopes & dreams, all wrapped in house-made pasta. Read more.
Why? Because there is a mural of Bill Clinton with a horse's body. With its fin-de-siecle decor, it's champagne-centric wine menu and its cabaret dancers, Sax does decadence right Read more.
The affordably priced furniture store Urban Essentials recently moved to a new location, doubling the size of its showroom to 5,700 square feet. Read more.
For the spa menu, co-owner Amy Thomas compiled a wish list of treatments for potential customers based on travels to Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London and Tokyo.
Sip up a Green Goddess (spinach, romaine, kale, cucumber, celery) or Bunny Brew (carrot, beet, ginger). Also available: raw chocolate and kombucha on tap.
