DC’s Best Meat Market Bars

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Aug 29, 2012 —  Relationships can be as complicated as a national budget proposal getting pushed through Congress – and sometimes just as boring. These are two things you should never tell a significant other.

You should also never tell them you’re going to a Washington, DC bar that everyone knows is a meat-market, because meat-markets aren’t exactly destinations for people in a committed relationship, which probably explains why they are so damn fun (Yeah, there’s a fourth thing you should probably keep to yourself).

But for those of us looking for rowdy singles scenes that run longer than a Senate filibuster, the capital isn’t short on options. You won’t find inspiring political prose or high-brow worldly reflections at any of these hopping hot spots, but even the nation’s greatest minds knew the importance of letting loose and having a trashy good time now and again (Benjamin Franklin’s keg stands were a thing of immeasurable beauty!).

Sure, most of the crazy bars listed below offer little variety on their drinks list, but the music is loud, the energy is high and full of flirtatious deportment, and everybody walking through the door has already accepted that the following morning is going to be totally brutal.