Barred in DC

Johnny's All American Garage Sale Live auctions of vintage sports memorabilia and 1980s collectibles. Bid now on authentic Americana!

Johnny’s All-American has closed after 3 years. Selling everything today and moving out tomorrow. Long and passionate message from owner Branden Givand.

Closing message calls out specifically one bar (Buddy’s) and others who he feels led to closure

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Brewery snowball fight! Atlas near Anacostia Metro Sunday afternoon

Federal and local planners in Washington have long sought to raze a derelict federal office district in DC. The area is enormous: some 230 acres, or 42 city blocks' worth of distressed government buildings.

This is where Trump's wrecking ball could swing next: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The Muni with the first snow day specials I’ve seen - Monday snow day party (see graphic), plus great specials for NFL championship Sunday (5 drafts, Buckets special: $25 Bud Light | $35 High Noon.)

They got a hipster coffee shop in the Cannon House office building(?!)

Probably the best beer list in the city

Ouch. Shelter's selection doesn't deserve this.

There’s a reason why they do Restaurant Week this time of year.

Example - pic taken today at 5:53p, Shelter at The Roost (not doing RW nor would make sense for them to). Not a soul at the bar or the high tops in middle (about 6 ppl seated on sides, more in rest of The Roost)

Generally, Height Act makes D-zoned building envelope too valuable to waste on parking, but further out:
In NE: Fort Totten even has "Texas Donuts" (apartments wrapping aboveground garage). Metrobar sits atop a parking podium.
In NW: Cathedral Commons & Social Safeway

Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan. The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.

No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.

The 100 VERY BEST RESTAURANTS ranking is HERE!

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Usually about 20 degrees windchill is my cutoff to bike commute vs Metrorail.

But walked to metro, found out it was single tracking, walked home and surprised to find that despite the 8 degree wind chill it wasn’t so bad to bike in today. Must be the sun?

I opened up DMs up now fyi - didn’t realize it was originally limited just to the ppl I follow

Apparently they are still mentioned on the website after all. Just severe delays

Hill area parents - Because I (neurodivergently?) enjoy doing such things, I made a spreadsheet of summer camps on the Hill and those with transport off the hill for 5 year olds - feel free to dm or email if you’d like a copy

Announced in Oct 2023 for a 2024 opening in former Pi Pizzeria space in Penn Quarter, The Dead Rabbit’s DC location appears to be DOA or on life support - their website no longer mentions the location and the DC specific IG acct is empty.

Any other intel?

Mangialardo’s is open today FYI

CODEPINK (@codepinkalert) • Instagram reel 49K likes, 2,272 comments - codepinkalert on January 16, 2026: "WATCH: Last night, we disrupted a Customs & Border Patrol a happy hour in DC. The same agents terrorizing our communities don't get to drink...

Here’s a video of Code Pink protesters (same group who protested Trump at Joe’s last year) protesting a group CBP employees having an work HH at Astro Beer Hall (not sure if there is a single other bar in downtown that would not have hosted TBH) www.instagram.com/reel/DTl0Wy_...

Well guitar, he was fiddling earlier,

Live fiddling at DC’s iconic Irish bar, The Dubliner.

Astro Beer Hall post responding to presumably some viral post about ICE at the bar

New cocktail/karaoke bar Red Lantern coming in upstairs Sushi Sato (former Bronze/Smith Commons) space, opens Thursday

Always surprised that the developers of the Navy Yard Whole Foods built 2 floors of above ground parking (fairly common in cities outside NE).

Other than Nats Park has there been any above ground parking garages built in new construction in DC last 20 years?

DDOT installing a Southbound bus only lane to Barracks Row, northbound bus only next to where fire station and Dunkin Donuts are, moving some bus stops, and most strikingly, getting rid of the blocks of diagonal parking

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David Rountree of District Soul Food fame once again in hot water with ABCA authorities, this time trying to use a caterer’s liquor license to open up a bar/restaurant, 1865 Steak near Rhode Island Ave metro

Based on preliminary Twitter polling, these are the top 12 wings in DC. Further h2h polling in a couple weeks will crown the champion

1-The Green Zone
2-KoChix
3-Stan's
4-Duffy's

5-Nanny O'Brien's
6-Maketto
7-Blaguard
8-Wingo's
9-Upstate FTW
10-Comet Ping Pong
11-Cane
12-Ivy and Coney

It’s hard when the restaurants and bars aren’t on here at all, since their posts would naturally drive discussion

Serving tater tots as bar food in 2005.

I've got some 20+ year old photobooth shots from there, too. Think we had them after a turn at the iPod DJ night at Café Saint Ex, next door.

Sigh.

They’ve all moved to Instagram and tiktok. Text based and two way communication doesn’t really work for hospitality

The large amount of engagement I’m getting for the Bar Pilar news here (lot more than Twitter or Threads) confirms one reason Bsky is weak on restaurant/bar stuff - people on here are old fucks like me