The weekend bets the trifecta: Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Even when you bring your lunch to a park bench, it's still a power lunch. The Penn Quarter Japanese eatery is now prepping sushi in a brown bag, along with seaweed salad, edamame and your choice of dessert—all the better for you to unwrap it at nearby City Center Park. (Amid all the sushi, no one will notice when you swap briefcases with the CIA agent.)
On its fifth birthday, Denim Bar is celebrating the way you did when you turned five: with burgers and hot dogs. Also: gratis beer. They'll also be cutting deals of 25% off if you spend $100. We can't wait to see what they do when they're of age.
Cheesecake has a host of benefits, but one drawback: you usually have to go out to get it. No longer. This new Takoma Park coffee-and-dessert outpost whips up German Chocolate and Chocolate Red Velvet cheesecakes, and better yet, they'll deliver anywhere within 10 miles. Your corner bar probably doesn't count.
You're always willing to appropriate another country's day of patriotism, especially when it involves $5 bar snacks all night long. The downtown pan-Latin bar is dishing up Mexican street food like Tacos Al Pastor, Tostadas and Yucatan Shrimp Ceviche. Pair them with house margaritas, also $5. That should tide you over until Canada Day.
Every now and then, you like to unplug and follow your own compass. Preferably in a government building on a Sunday afternoon. For the first time, the National Gallery is displaying 70 of Allen Ginsberg's photographs, including portraits of badasses like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. You'll be hitting the road by Monday.
You'll try anything once. Especially if it's beer. And free. ChurchKey hosts the official launch of St. Louis's heralded Schlafly Beers in DC, as the brewers pour five gratis drafts, including a couple of rare cask ales. Making you the Lewis (or is it Clark?) of beer exploration.
Tonight's the night you'll indulge in five previously unknown cocktails. Otherwise known as Wednesday. The Asian-Latin spot, which has already gotten your attention with its 130 varieties of tequila, is pouring five different margaritas for five bucks each. Call it the five-flavor discount.
