cover photo: washingtonpost.com Where We've Been Drinking: Beuchert's When we moved to DC, it was hard for us to believe that we'd land in a neighborhood we would like as much the one we left in Boston. Union Square was an old, overlooked, even rundown neighborhood that...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Nooshi Before we moved to DC, everyone consistently told us about one thing: happy hour. The happy hour scene is great! It's what everyone does. Just you wait. Comments like these made us think we would get along with DC just fine, and...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Hanks Oyster Bar We have so many reasons to love and thank Storm Jonas; he gave us 3 days out of the office, allowed us to complete every Netflix series that we had begun, taught us that the Capitol can in fact...
Where We've Been Drinking: Zaytinya We heard about Jose Andres well before we ever arrived in DC; we had more than one friend who gave us a goodbye gift in the form of a gift card to his restaurant group. We took it as a clear...
Where We've Been Drinking: Le Grenier photo cred: ihadabiglunch.com We mentioned that last Tuesday was our anniversary. Three years of marriage. Boom. That's also three solid years that we've been trying to go to France. We got married in January and winters in Boston are just so...
Where We've Been Drinking: Thip Kao photo cred: thipkao.com Here are two things we've learned since moving to DC: Making friends is harder than we remember; Capitol Hill is far away from everything. We knew moving would entail saying goodbye to so many friends, and we could piece it together...
Repeal Day Ball Every year the DC Craft Bartenders Guild hosts a Repeal Day Ball. We have to thank Wigle for letting us know about it, as it was hands down one of the best events we've ever been to. It was like the world's largest...
Happy Birthday, One Eight! One of our favorite things about the DC drinking scene is the abundance of small, local distillers. And of these local spirits, our favorite is One Eight, the makers of our go-to craft gin, Ivy City Gin. We've told you before how...
Where We've Been Drinking: Iron Gate We went to Iron Gate before. It was a 70 degree November day, and we ate lunch on the outdoor patio with Wigle Whiskey; it was as delightful as you imagine a warm fall day on a delightful patio sipping...
Where We've Been Drinking: Founding Farmers The first time we visited DC (as adults, that is--the infamous 8th grade class trip doesn't count) a good friend told me we should go to Founding Farmers. It was a hazy memory of delicious and crowded. We were trying...