Category: Barred in DC Overview
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Barred in DC Turns One Year Old Today
Barred in DC turns one year old today! Thanks to all of the readers, Twitter followers (over 640 at last count!), Facebook fans, lurkers, commenters (even the spam commenters!), Redditors, and real-life friends and family who’ve given such valuable input and supported the site in many ways. I’ve learned a lot and interacted with tons…
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DC Restaurant Spreadsheet – February 2014
Although this is a bar blog and website, some of you may know that I originally set out to document and visit the DC metro area’s best restaurants. To that end, I’ve compiled and regularly updated a now-massive spreadsheet that contains nearly 500 restaurants around the DMV. I’ve shared this with my address book the…
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Recap of the Barred in DC Shrawl (Shaw Bar Crawl) + Pictures
Despite only being announced less than 48 hours beforehand, Friday’s Barred in DC Shrawl, a bar crawl of 4 new spots in the Shaw neighborhood, was quite successful. Around 15 crawlers joined Barred in DC to check out these new bars along 7th Street NW, all less than 6 weeks old, for the first time.…
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New neighborhood page for Penn Quarter / Chinatown
Check out my latest neighborhood page, this time for Penn Quarter / Chinatown here. Here’s my blurb description of the area: The neighborhood of Penn Quarter, typically mentioned in conjunction with or interchangeably with the misleadingly named Chinatown (more like Chinablock), is perhaps DC’s most urban area. Thousands of folks flock to the area on…
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The Best Shutdown Deals in DC
As the government shutdown enters its second week, bars and eateries in the DC area continue to offer special deals (as I detailed last week) to both furloughed gov’t employees like myself and everyone else. Eater, the Post, and DCist have comprehensive listings of the deals that have continued; I’ve pored through these to come up with…
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Duke’s Grocery Opens Tuesday Sept. 10th – Preview – Info and Pics
As first reported earlier today by Washington City Paper’s Young & Hungry blog and the Post’s Going Out Guide, the new Dupont cafe/pub/market Duke’s Grocery opens at 11a tomorrow (Tuesday, September 10th). Located in the former Cafe Green space next to Mr. Yogato between P and Church Streets on the 17th Street corridor, this cozy, neighborhood spot…
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Updated Page – Bars – Admission Pending
I’ve updated one of the pages linked at the menu at the top of the page, “Bars – Admission Pending.” Originally a useless (to you) devoted to the bars I hadn’t yet visited, I’ve now updated it so it lists all the bars that are currently in development in DC. If you have any additions/changes/deletions,…
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New Neighborhood Page – U Street / Logan Circle
Check out the new neighborhood page for the loosely-defined hot neighborhood of U Street / Logan Circle / 14th Street. I’ve also made updates to the Dupont Circle and H Street neighborhood pages.
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DC Beer Week 2013 – Where to Go Each Day
Although I’ve been on record noting my relatively muted reaction to yet another beer week in DC, DC Beer Week does have a ton of awesome events that highlight what a great beer city DC has become. I’ll defer mostly to the great previews highlighted by Fritz Hahn/Going Out Gurus/WaPo, DCist, Young & Hungry/Washington City…
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New Neighborhood Page – H Street
Just posted a new neighborhood page for H Street, listing all the bars there (didn’t even know some of them existed), including any restaurant with a bar that is open after midnight. If you haven’t yet, check out my earlier page about my home neighborhood Dupont Circle. Keep on the lookout for pages for other…
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