Why, oh why, would you go to a bar just to drink and talk when there are so many other ways to have fun at drinking establishments? People in DC are moderately interesting, but once you get passed the formalities (Where do you work? How many men do you bunk with? Do you let people shower with you?), conversation tends to get stale. But anything reminiscent of a Chuck E. Cheese activity is super fun and will keep you entertained well past any bedroom revelations.
Places in DC that will offer you much more than just a drink:
- Iron horse Tap Room: This new(ish) bar in Penn Quarter has 20 beers on tap, big screen teevees, lots of them in fact, and most importantly, its basement has four shuffleboard tables, two skee-ball machines, buck hunter, and multiple foosball and pinball machines. The fun may be relegated to the basement, but the nice part is that you don’t feel like you’ve left a nice establishment to go play.
- The Front Page: Ever wanted to play with a Wii, but, shucks, you can’t afford one on your measly salary? Look no further than the Front Page in Ballston. Monday and Sunday nights, from 8PM to closing, are Wii nights when you can bowl, or play tennis or golf to your heart’s desire.
- Rock and Roll Hotel: This venue offers a lot more than just drinks, or rather it offers you fun activities to do while drunk like, listen to music, play Jenga, spell at their Friday night Spelling Bee, or play ping pong at their Monday night ping pong tournaments.
- H Street County Club: Drinking should always be accompanied by the opportunity to play mini golf, shuffleboard, and skee-ball, just as it is at the H Street Country Club. It offers plenty of fun activities for your enjoyment, as well as delicious Mexican food.
- The Red Derby: At this dive bar in Columbia Heights, worshiped by hipsters for its extensive beer can offerings, you can play DJ, pool, and/or just about any board game you want, including our personal favorite, Connect Four, though we wish they had Stratego, your Wonkabout’s childhood board game of choice.
- Comet Ping Pong: Not only can you enjoy pizza and beer and this restaurant, but, as the name implies, the place also has ping pong tables. Just don’t get stuck playing on the kids table; it’s not quite as conducive to showing off your awesome backhand.
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I brought my favorite bar a Scrabble board — one of the nice ones with insets for the tiles and that rotates so everyone can see it right-side-up. It got scrapped for one reason or another, although in its short lifetime it did prove that the frat boys who say they’re good at Scrabble have no idea what they’re talking about. Especially when you lay down HURTLED as your first move and the poor illiterate bastard you’re showing up insists that it’s not a word.
You may be book-smart and all literate with your college degrees and advanced vocabulary and everything but who in their right mind would buy the most expensive deluxe Scrabble kit on the market and donate it to a bar?
[re=529114]Yellow Cake[/re]: In proportion to the money I spend there regularly, twenty-five bucks is spit in a bucket. Or a PITTANCE if you can play a letter that’s already on the board and get a fifty-point bonus.
I have heard of the Front Page, but what ever happened to the Bent-Over Page? It hasn’t been in the news lately.
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Ooooh, Arielle, I think you might find a wee problem here:
“once you get passed the formalities.”
I’ll kindly assume you were simply drunk…at work…AGAIN.
Red Derby does have Stratego, but it is like a weird medieval with dragons and gnomes instead of miners and spies. Same game.
I think the best we have seen was the old electronic Simon says game @ Red derby.But connect four is maybe my favorite.
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