A restaurant does not need a half dozen forks per place setting and a wine list as long as a hardback book to be romantic.
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City in a Glass: Washington, D.C. (PasteMagazine.com)
Washington, D.C., has the best liquor laws in the country. Being a federal city, as opposed to a city within a state, bar owners may sell any bottle of booze that has federal label approval. If a spirit is legal in the United States, it has federal label approval. On this city drinks tour, we’re going to introduce you to three quality Washington, D.C., cocktails, show you where to find them and even how to replicate them at home.
Bars We Love: Eat the Rich, Washington, D.C. (Playboy.com)
The oyster-meets-cocktail bars that are opening across the country today all seem to focus on absinthe and the refined, pinkies-up saloons of centuries past. Eat the Rich oyster and cocktail bar in Washington, D.C., however, is not one of those bars.
Bars We Love: Jack Rose Dining Saloon, Washington, D.C. (Playboy.com)
A crowned prince and a foreign minister walk into a bar. They slurp down some oysters, share a few glasses of Glenmorangie single malt and then when the check comes, they playfully fight over who will pay the bill. This sounds like the set up to a joke, but when it happened in real life, at Jack Rose Dining Saloon in Washington, D.C., body guards flanked the table, intervening to make sure it didn’t turn into an international incident.