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Running from Union Station to the intersections of Maryland Avenue, Bladensburg Road, and Florida Avenue, H Street Corridor has seen an explosion of nightlife options since local restaurateur Joe Englert decided to make it his pet project in 2006.
Also called the Atlas District, after the Atlas Performing Arts Center that marks the neighborhood’s eastern boundary, the area’s ongoing revival has made the H Street Corridor a popular nightlife destination for urban hipsters, artistic types, and laid back young professionals looking to get rowdy.
Best known for exotic theme bars – including a burlesque/sideshow theater and faux country club with indoor mini-golf – the stretch also features a string of highly-rated restaurants and gastropubs that lend the area some serious foodie credibility.
Live dance performances, alternative theater troops, and the hottest up-and-coming independent musical acts can also be caught along the main six-block drag of H, which on weekends is usually swarming with partygoers.
Surrounding blocks, however, remain mostly undeveloped, and boarded-up storefronts are still the norm in an area that, like much of DC, was quite literally destroyed during the civil rights riots in the late 1960s.
Nonetheless, it’s perhaps the only place in Washington where one can catch a modern dance performance or an independent film, watch a bartender swallow a sword before pouring a drink, and sift through more than fifty martini options in the same night.
And by all accounts, the choices in the H Street Corridor only continue to grow.
20s / 30s / Asian / Asian Food / Beer
Reviewed by Seema S.
"This is by far the best Ramen I have ever had. Every dish has an incredible amount of flavor. I think the food here was better than Ipudo in NYC and t ..." more
1234 H Street Northeast
Washington, DC 20002
20s / 30s / Bar / Beer / Beer Garden
Party Earth Review With its fat mugs of frothy brew, heaping piles of bratwurst, and live polka on Fridays and Saturdays, Biergarten Haus brings the spirit of Oktoberfest to DC all year long. A spacious ... more
1355 H Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
20s / 30s / Anything goes / Artists
Party Earth Review The H Street Corridor – a mile-long stretch of H Street extending east from Union Station – has been the focus of a major redevelopment campaign since 2003, resulting in dozens of bars ... more
H Street NE, extending roughly from
Union Station to the intersections of
Florida and Maryland Avenues
Washington, DC 20002
80s Music / ATM / Bar / Barbeque / DJ
Party Earth Review Marked only by a single light above its door, Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar is a neighborhood haunt catering to anyone in the mood for three-dollar beers, loud rock music, and ... more
1104 H Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
20s / Anything goes / Bar / Games
Party Earth Review Best known for its nine-hole indoor mini golf course, H Street Country Club is an offbeat neighborhood staple offering 7,000 square feet of games, booze, and DC-themed décor – a far ... more
1335 H Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
30s / 50s Music / 60s Music / Edgy
Party Earth Review Hidden in an unassuming row house, Granville Moore’s is a rustic neighborhood gastropub that prepares a thousand pounds of mussels and potatoes every week – all from a kitchen not much ... more
1238 H Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
20s / Artists / Bar / Bar Food / Club
Party Earth Review Housed in a former mortuary – and possibly haunted, according to some bartenders – The Rock and Roll Hotel is a notoriously high-energy concert hall that is anything but dead. Eccentric ... more
1353 H Street NE
Washington, DC 20002