Martin's Tavern

Established in 1933, we are one of Washington DC

In business since 1933, this is a venerable DC institution. With its dark-paneled booths and walls, smoky atmosphere, Tiffany-style lights, soft jazz, and waitstaff dressed in old-fashioned garb, Martin's suggests an America from another era. Very much a favorite drinking place, attracting many DC notables, Martin's sticks with its all-American menu. Many order sandwiches, soups and salads. But...

"Ghosts of administrations past" haunt this "historic" Georgetown tavern that's been hosting locals, pols and presidents in the "narrow" wooden booths in its "cozy" confines since the New Deal; the "reliably good" American menu, which includes items not found elsewhere (e.g. the signature "hot brown" sandwich), has "endured the test of time", and prices remain "reasonable."

Ye Olde depression-era kitchen feeds the ghost of Ladies' Home Journals past: Oysters Rockefeller, corned beef and cabbage, grandmother's gravy. Signature "Hot Brown" sandwich is a hot mess of good. WASPs feel at home with 18th century horse derby prints, tapestry tablecloths. Whisky list supercedes wine list. Rickety wooden booths polished by decades of Georgetown students' bottoms, dead...

A Georgetown institution, Martin's Tavern--an American eatery that opened in 1934 and has been in the family ever since-- has served every president from Truman to George W. Bush (Nixon was a...

Georgetown's oldest tavern has served presidents and politicians, but it remains the quintessential corner pub.