The 51st State Tavern

51st State was one of the first DC bars I fell in love with once I moved to the District. Located on the fringes of Foggy Bottom and Georgetown, the 51st State is a perfect location to start at and move elsewhere or spend the whole night (or at least until they kick you out). I love their draft beer list every time I go - it has a bit more variety than the typical Bud, Bud Light and Miller Light options that other DC bars typically carry for the college student variety. Also, the food is great - I definitely recommend their wings or their boneless chicken appetizers. Awesomeness is their cocktails - only $6.50 for happy hour Monday through Friday! They have patio and indoor seating, a pool table upstairs, and the staff is always fun. Definitely check this place out!

Cheap beer!  Cheap wings!  That's about all I've had here.  It's a "divey" sports bar and yes, i don't normally frequent divey places and probably would not come here on the regular except for the fact that:

THEY ARE A NEW YORK BAR!!!!  I repeat THEY ARE A NEW YORK BAR!!!!!!!

Bonus Bonus Bonus points and love love love to them!  So whenever I want to watch a NY sports game with similar elitist NY sports fans, I come here.  Case closed.

Best memory:  Watching the NY Giants WIN the Superbowl haha suck on that Bellicheck!  PARTAYYY!  Great spot ot watch NY Yankees games, especially since DC cable networks don't include the YES Network, sigh.  NY sports team haters beware: you've been warned.

Came here after our disappointing dinner at Paper Moon - just trying to relax and decompress from our cross country flight, trying to find our place, and race to our NWM DC check-in before they closed on Friday.

We sat at the bar and had a couple of beers. LOVED that they had East Coast beers on tap (probably not a big thing for others - but hey! we usually only get West Coast over here!)

Hung out for a little over an hour and watched basketball. The place wasn't very crowded which was nice for us.