"Watch political debates" or play pool with friends at this "trusty" Capitol Hill lounge on the top level of the Pour House; chandeliers and leather seating lend a "high-society" feel to the World War II–themed lounge where procuring a reasonably priced beer or interesting martini is "never too hard."
Perhaps the "least pretentious place to grab some drinks in a very pretentious city", this "mainstay" pub on Capitol Hill lures a "friendly" crowd of "regulars", "Hill interns" and "rednecks" with "cheap" beer and "awesome" bartenders "who are actually from DC"; spiffed up after a 2011 fire, the "narrow" space is still a "classic" "hangout" that "takes you back" with "taxidermy all over the...
Capitol Hill has a number of bars that qualify as institutions, but the Tune Inn is probably the most popular. Capitol Hill staffers and their bosses, apparently at ease in dive surroundings, have been coming here for cheap beer and greasy burgers since it opened in 1955. All longtime Capitol Hillers know that Friday is crab cake day (or, in season, soft-shell crab day) at the Tune Inn, and...