Asylum

For my first step along my journey of 26 new DC bars, I chose Asylum, a dark and kind of gritty Adams Morgan dive that hosts live music. It reminded me of a place you might have seen a punk band in the 80s.

We went down to the basement, which had some vinyl booths tucked into nooks, but these were all taken, so we pulled up some rickety tables to a long bench along the wall. There's a pool table down there too, which we definitely spilled a lot of beer on at one point...

The real reason to go to Asylum on Saturday nights is that they do a beat the clock special, where beer starts at 50 cents at 5 pm and goes up by that much each hour. We got there at 6 and still got pretty drunk for less than 10 bucks each. The beer wasn't great or anything (I think it was Natty Light?) but for a price you could probably find in your couch it wasn't bad.

I hear they do a good vegan brunch on weekends too. But it has real food too (I made sure).