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2471 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
Fax: 202-667-6971
(4 Ratings)
Bar & Lounge is rather an ambitious appellation, since the space Asylum now occupies is barely enough for one or the other. Asylum is a dark, narrow, and mostly underground alley with a single pool table up front and the bar in back. The decor: black imitation stone wall, motorcycle helmets dangling from above the bar, painted concrete floor, a few instruments of death hanging on the walls, Japanese cartoons playing on TV. The music: metal on the stereo.
The clientele: friendly, and mostly black-clad in the "hard-core, dog-collar, torn-garments" way rather than in the expensive, "I-got-this-leather-jacket-in-Florence" way. The matchbooks: apparently stolen from Madam's Organ. The special events: happy hour 5-9PM on weekdays and, if you can imagine, Sunday brunch. Also on Sundays are beer and food specials, free pool, and the blatantly unjust half-priced drinks for women. Drink offerings are always reasonably priced, particularly if you can drag yourself out of the house early enough on a Saturday evening to take advantage of the Shiner Bock Countdown, which features 25-cent draft pints from 6pm to 7pm, with a 50-cent price increase every hour until close. Otherwise, choose from about 20 beers on tap and draft. The menu features about twenty items along the lines of burgers, fries, and hummus, none costing more than $7. Many items are vegetarian, and the menu also declares "we serve no pork" -- in which case the content of the BLT is rather a mystery. -- Gwendolyn Bradley
Categories: Night Clubs, Bars
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4 Ratings and Reviews
Escaping yuppies?
strychnine100 - 08/14/2004These reviews say that this place is great to get away from the yuppies. HAHA, yeah right. I went here on a friday night and it was full of of yuppies! Just like everything else in DC, there really is nowhere to escape the yuppies. Don't bother coming here for girls either, cuz most of them are average looking at best. The bartender here, the one downstairs with a madonna piercing was extremely rude to me . I didn't do anything to provocate her rudeness, except that she was probably on some power trip. In general the bartenders were quite unnattentive. Only good thing I can say is the DJ played some good classic metal songs, so it gets 1 star for that, but seriously, you are better off just playing those tunes with a couple beers at home.
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carveboarder13 - 11/27/2003Awesome friggin placep very cool and laid back, open-minded crowd-
don't let the harleys out in front intimidate you, everyone down there is real cool and most of them are regulars and virtually all are locals...great place to go for happy hour with 50 cent tacos and 25 cent wings, $2 select drafts...Shout out to Boo, Jamie, Josh, Jimmy, Becca, and yes even Ash.the very best dive bar in town
bikerchickdc - 03/05/2000Asylum is really a great place to go to escape the college-age crowds of adams morgan; sure, the place tends to get packed, but it's a different kind of packed. kind of a safe haven for those of us who haven't needed a fake id in a long time!