The weekend is a coalition builder.
A day like this deserves free soft-serve. Okay, maybe not, but that's not stopping the 14th Street temple to chocolate from doling it out anyway. (They're celebrating the move to a new style of cream that uses more butterfat. It's called progress.) Arrive at happy hour and pair it up with half-price wine. Cabernet-fudge sundaes encouraged.
Alchimie Forever—the hidden secret of a Swiss spa in Georgetown—is inviting UrbanDaddy readers in all day for first-come, first-served 30-minute facials. They'll also be pouring beers from Silver Spring's Hook & Ladder Brewing Co—which we hear do wonders for the complexion.
You're the type to finish what you start. Especially when it's a keg. The Capitol Hill booze den is offering a free beer tab to whoever orders the last beer in their keg of Germany's Ayinger Double Bock. To get you in the kicking spirit, they're showing kung fu movies (although we hear Bruce Lee was a pilsner man).
You usually visit this Ninth Street upstairs hideaway for some live jazz and the dark, Parisian atmosphere. And nothing says jazz and Paris like $3 lamb tacos and $4 Sol beers (available as a combo for six bucks). Think Fitzgerald in Cancun.
Starting next week, the 100-year-old downtown institution is opening its patio for New England-style clambakes every other Wednesday during the summer. On the menu: 1.5-pound lobsters, mussels, steamers and strawberry shortcake. Plans to put a lighthouse at the corner of 15th and Pennsylvania are tied up in permitting.
