The Fireplace
2161 P St NW, Washington
(202) 293-1293
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It is a very warm and friendly neighborhood bar with an upstairs on weekends. The drinks are strong and the bartenders are friendly. There is usually some type of sporting event on the TVs.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 4
Amazing place, people are very friendly and drinks are not expensive.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
You want a nice urban spot to celebrate the LGBTQ culture, then come here for great drinks and more great drinks. Karaoke on Wednesday’s be lit. Bring your voice because DC is definitely not playing. No food is served here, but right next door is ZBurger. Trust me you will love it.
You to party with a crowd come ending of week and weekend. Wanna chill Sunday thru Wednesday is the days to come. Either day it is a good time.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Love seeing my old friends there-
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
First time I was there, very nice staff. It is small and not busy when I was in. I will go back.
Atmosphere: 4
Service: 5
I felt relaxed and entertained
Atmosphere: 5
Depressing! This used to be a hotspot with drink specials and a great happy hour. No more. The new owner has chosen to kill any sort of ambiance in the place as the lights downstairs are always turned way up and the bartender plays free internet radio with commercials and all. I was there last Saturday at 8:15pm and there were 3 ppl (4 if you include the owner). No music. All monitors were on TBS cable channel watching TV. Not the vibe I was looking for on a Saturday night. I feel like it’s become a tax write off. So much potential.
Atmosphere: 1
Cool place but damn the music so outdated and that’s just unacceptable drinks cool tho
Nice atmosphere, but small and crowded. Drinks were good, but I never tasted any alcohol. No parking, we had to walk for blocks to get there from where we parked.
Small and friendly
Atmosphere: 4
Service: 4
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Grungy dark bar. Only takes cash.
Atmosphere: 1
All the Well Drinks that you can handle.
We had no idea it was a gay bar, but we were welcomed the entire time. We had fun.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
The good: This place is still a typical gay bar with mostly gays, where the vibe is full testosterone in spite of an occasional fem bitchy (itchy) boy, not an issue and I love them. The music is great, the place has made some needed improvement such as newer bathrooms. Still the bars are the same as I remember from 10 years ago. THE BAD: I went there on 01/24 just past 8 pm and ordered a vodka soda, the bartender was nice and pleasant and charged $7 bucks, great price I though perhaps was happy hour or something. After sometime finished my drink and moved to second floor and was great, ordered a second vodka soda,, the bartender offered vodka options and I asked for Tito, he charged $11, I assumed was regular price and all good. The WORST: A hunky guy came by to talk, we had a time and he asked me to go downstairs where is more quite. We went down, the bar was empty as most people were upstairs, and he offered me a drink to which I accepted out of politeness because already hit my limit (2 drinks). He ordered 2 vodka sodas and the new bartenders, a lady in her 40s or so prepared the drinks. My new acquaintance, a very dashing lawyer, wanted to pay for both drinks but I insisted on paying my half. We both were shocked at the price charged, the bartender asked for each of us $17. We paid out of politeness as we were hitting so well and neither one of us wanted Io make a scene there. I have to believe we were overcharged big time, the price of drinks at other bars (Number 9, LGP, etc) are less, unless you get special drinks. Hope thia is not a common practice thinking that late at night the patrons will pay whatever the bartender wants to pocket extra. Hope the new ownership curtails this practice.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 2
It's has rate
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 5
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