Lace

If I could rate this place a zero I would.........that said I came to Lace on 7/5 for my bday and the club is said to close at 3 AM, but here they are putting us out at 12:44 AM. The messed up part about this is I just paid $13 for a drink and now I have to leave it here. I am so disappointed in this spot that I won't return. We were also here last week with another bad experience and the same drink I had tonight was $11 now 1 week later it's $13....... WTH. I'm not cheap but I like consistency or at least a heads-up. All I can say is WOW!!!!! And not in a good way.

I have not been to this establishment yet so I can not comment on the quality of their service or atmosphere.  I write only to address the comments of those who profess that this bar is in the "ghetto". Is the address in the  chicest part of town? Absolutely not. It is located in the business district of  Rhode Island Avenue, NE heading toward Maryland  in a pretty benign area surrounded by a long established residential neighborhood that the "new comers" are just dying to "renovate" so that the indigenous Brentwooders and Brooklanders will go away.  As a life long Washingtonian and resident of the adjacent Brookland neighborhood I can attest that this location is hardly located geographically in the "ghetto". The reviewers who say that it s only reveal their lack of knowledge of D.C. in general and the neighborhood in particular and disclose their lack of exposure to anything other than privileged  racially  and economically monolithic suburban neighborhoods. I wonder if the same reviewers would consider the Phase One as being in the "ghetto" before 8th St on the Hill became gentrified? It's been there for decades and has been  (until recently) a heck of a lot scarier than anything happening at the non-ghetto Lace address.

Great drinks and food