Many DC bars and restaurants will be celebrating Mardi Gras this upcoming Tuesday, March 4th. Here’s a round-up of those events, including the more grown-up ones highlighted by the Post and the more debaucherous ones for the younger folks. Eater, Zagat, Washington Life, & Washingtonian also have solid round-ups. Bayou, Black Jack, and the Hogo/Passenger block party are my picks.

For 22 Year Olds and Others Young at Heart

McFadden’s (Foggy Bottom)

• Masquerade Party
• $10 Hurricane yards, $4 Abita Purple Haze
• Happy Hour specials – 6-7p: $1 beers/hurricanes; 7-8p: $2 beers/hurricanes; 8-9p: $3 beers/hurricanes
• Wear a mask-get first drink free
• Person with most beads wins $200 in cash and prizes
• crawfish eating contest

Sign of the Whale (Dupont)

• “Mardis Gras” party
• Starts at 6p
• $5 Hurricanes, $4 SoCo/Lime shots, $3 Miller Lites
• Balcony bead drops! start at 7p
• $50 bar tabs (can only win once) for most beads each hour starting at 7p

The Mighty Pint (Dupont)

• $20
• Open bar from 6-10p includes 16 oz rails & Miller Lite/Yuengling/Sam Adams drafts
• $6 Bacardi hurricanes & $4 SoCo shots from 4p-close

Rumors (Dupont)

• Cover charge
• Bourbon Street Bash
• 4p-close
• $2 Coors Lights, $3 Blue Moons, $4 Bacardi drinks & Hurricanes
• Cajun food
• Beads, live funk music, dancing, masks
• Cajun hot wing eating contest

Town Tavern (Adams Morgan)

• “BEADS, BABES, & BEERS”
• 2-for-1 Hurricanes all night
• 5-10p: $5 domestic yard glasses & $5 Abita Purple Haze pints
• $10 open bar from 9-10p (domestic bottles & mixed rails)
• 10p-close: $2 jello shots & kamikazes, $3 domestic bottles, $5 mixed rails & Abita Purple Haze pints, $10 domestic beer buckets
• Most beads at midnight get a free town tavern bar tab

For Adults

Bayou (Foggy Bottom)

• $25 cover
• Starts at 5p
• All-you-can-eat buffet until 9p
• Abita and Hurricane specials at the bar
• Live bands all night, acoustic jug hillbilly bands during lunch
• Parade from Dupont Circle starts at 4p (cancelled due to snow)

Black Rooster Pub (Dupont)

• Starts at 5p
• Lulu’s Club Mardi Gras Reunion
• stilt walkers, fire eaters and live music
• Hurricane bar, beer specials, Cajun menu & beads
• Tented outdoor area

Shaw’s Tavern (Shaw)

• Starts at 7p
• live dixieland jazz
• 2 for 1 drafts & house wine
• pancake specials & 1/2 price burgers

Hogo/The Passenger (Mt. Vernon Triangle/Shaw)

• Band starts in adjacent Warehouse Theater at 9p
• Block Party Extravaganza
• Hogo: Hurricanes & hand grenades; The Passenger: Sazeracs & other classic cocktails

Black Jack (14th Street/Logan Circle)

• Bar opens at 6p (specials run previous days too)
• Abita Amber & Spring IPA on tap, plus special Abita cask of Restoration Ale
• $7 Frozen Hurricanes & Sazeracs specials
• Special food menu

Hot N Juicy Crawfish (Woodley Park)

• Crawfish eating contest at 6:30p
• Get a free beer or soda for each 1 lb of crawfish ordered
• Bud Light girls from 6-8p

The Heights (Columbia Heights)

• Classic New Orleans cocktails ($10-12) & food specials all day

Rosebar (Dupont)

• 9p-2a
• $8 Hurricanes, $8 Belvedere cocktails, $5 Miller Lites

Penn Social (Penn Quarter/Chinatown)

• starts at 7p
• Abita beer & food specials
• live music

Ben’s Next Door (U Street)

• live music starts at 8:30p
• $5 Hurricanes, $3 Heineken drafts & 50 cent wings all day

Acre 121 (Columbia Heights)

• $5 Abita (Purple Haze, Light & Spring IPA), $7 Nola cocktails & food specials

Atomic Billiards (Cleveland Park)

• free donut holes & beads
• $6 Sailor Jerry Hurricanes

Ventnor Sports Cafe (Adams Morgan)

• Fat Tuesday Trivia
• $5 Abita & Hurricanes all night

Radius Pizza (Mount Pleasant)

• $4 Abita beer, food specials, beads & giveaways

The Brixton (U Street)

• starts at 5p on rooftop
• $7 Captain Morgan Hurricanes
• Captain Morgan models
• beads on beads on beads

For Fancier Adults

Acadiana (Penn Quarter/Chinatown)

• $100
• 6-10p
• All-you-can eat feast including raw bar
• Open bar includes wine, select bottle & draft beer, select specialty cocktails & martini bar and bourbon tastings
• In private rooms

Mintwood Place (Adams Morgan)

• 5:30-10:30p
• $35 3 course menu (a la carte also available)
• live music & classic New Orleans cocktails

Central (Downtown)

• 5-10:30p, live jazz begins at 7p
• traditional New Orleans food, cocktails ($10-14) & free beads

Barcelona Wine Bar (Logan Circle/14th Street)

• $45
• starts at 7p
• Carnival Celebration
• Spanish wines, passed tapas & pintxos

Just For Happy Hour

Eatonville (14th Street/U Street)

• Mardi Gras Happy Hour from 4-7p
• $4 Abita beers & food specials

A Bar (Foggy Bottom)

• Happy hour from 5-7p
• Sazerac & Hurricane drink specials
• King cake winner gets free happy hour (+ 5 guests)