Antelope @ Fort Reno
So last night I decided to mosey on up to see one of the free summer concerts at Fort Reno. I arrived just as Antelope, a Dischord band that's been around a few years and traces its ancestry to El Guapo, was starting to play. I hadn't heard them before but they were really good -- kind of a sparse, melodic sound (more photos here. Also playing were French Toast, who were also good but didn't grab me nearly as much.
Forgive me if I've said this before, but Fort Reno is one of the best ways to spend a summer evening in DC. It's outdoors in a beautiful setting, the crowd has the comfortable feel of a neighborhood barbequeue, and it's free -- a labor of love for as many years I can remember by a small ever-changing group of dedicated volunteers.
Afterwards since I was most of the way uptown, I decided to head up Wisconsin Avenue to the Armand's Carryout at the corner, up near Garrison or Harrison Street or somewhere like that. I was relishing the thought of eating a delicious slice of deep dish pizza at one of their outdoor tables, and so was disappointed to see that they were gone -- replaced by a Quiznos. Not the same thing at all!
So I pointed my car south down Wisconsin, and with little traffic, a long string of green lights, and a cool breeze in the window I decided to see where the road would take me. I drove all the way into Georgetown and turned left on M Street, and kept going, right until I found a parking spot as big as a house directly in front of the Red Lion (21st and Penn).
Despite being right on the GW campus, the Red Lion has a real low-key feel, and the conversation at the bar covered everything under the sun, most notably a debate on whether Ken Lay's widow would be able to keep his ill-gotten fortune (and whether she engineered his heart attack). They also have Nukie Brown on tap, and most importantly, via a dumbwaiter they serve food from Lindy's Bon Appetit, which has been a DC hamburger legend for decades.
Surprisingly for a place that stakes its fame on burgers, the blue cheese burger I had was coated with blue cheese dressing, rather than actual blue cheese. (The Childe Harold just north of Dupont Circle is really the place to go for blue cheese burgers, but I digress). Nonetheless, the burger was good and I had no regrets. I made a note to myself to return more often.
Forgive me if I've said this before, but Fort Reno is one of the best ways to spend a summer evening in DC. It's outdoors in a beautiful setting, the crowd has the comfortable feel of a neighborhood barbequeue, and it's free -- a labor of love for as many years I can remember by a small ever-changing group of dedicated volunteers.
Afterwards since I was most of the way uptown, I decided to head up Wisconsin Avenue to the Armand's Carryout at the corner, up near Garrison or Harrison Street or somewhere like that. I was relishing the thought of eating a delicious slice of deep dish pizza at one of their outdoor tables, and so was disappointed to see that they were gone -- replaced by a Quiznos. Not the same thing at all!
So I pointed my car south down Wisconsin, and with little traffic, a long string of green lights, and a cool breeze in the window I decided to see where the road would take me. I drove all the way into Georgetown and turned left on M Street, and kept going, right until I found a parking spot as big as a house directly in front of the Red Lion (21st and Penn).
Despite being right on the GW campus, the Red Lion has a real low-key feel, and the conversation at the bar covered everything under the sun, most notably a debate on whether Ken Lay's widow would be able to keep his ill-gotten fortune (and whether she engineered his heart attack). They also have Nukie Brown on tap, and most importantly, via a dumbwaiter they serve food from Lindy's Bon Appetit, which has been a DC hamburger legend for decades.
Surprisingly for a place that stakes its fame on burgers, the blue cheese burger I had was coated with blue cheese dressing, rather than actual blue cheese. (The Childe Harold just north of Dupont Circle is really the place to go for blue cheese burgers, but I digress). Nonetheless, the burger was good and I had no regrets. I made a note to myself to return more often.
1 Comments:
There's still an Armands down on Wisconsin and Van Ness. It's bigger than the carryout place ever was : )
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