Description: A sweet and spiffy neighborhood gay bar on
Capitol Hill.
Crowd-drawing wonderments: Nightly piano theatrics.
Oddities found at Martins: A magical fireplace that contorts
its flame into a flickering corkscrew.
Other fire-based oddities not available at Martins but found
elsewhere in the universe: The mind-blowing flame of a candle in
zero gravity, which is a uniform faint blue color and holds the shape
of a sphere. (Imagine the wick as being encased by a ghostly blue
Afro.)
Happy hours: Sat–Sun 9 am–6 pm, Mon–Fri 11
am–6 pm, Sun–Thurs 11 pm–close (drinks);
Sun–Thurs 11 pm–close, Mon–Thurs 4–6 pm
(food).
Happy-hour drink specials: $2.50 well drinks, $3 microbrews
(Kilt Lifter, Stella Artois).
Happy-hour food specials: Depending on the time and day,
either 20 percent off sandwiches and appetizers or half off appetizers
under $10 ($4 popcorn chicken, $4.50 pulled-pork quesadilla).
Nice place, good menu, staff is either too attentive or not at all.
And they seem to be drinking on the job … that was annoying.
Brunch on weekends is great.
Honestly, I looked at the picture and frankly don’t think it is a very happy crowd. I mean I wouldn’t want pictures of people smiling like they just had a lobotomy but something a little more friendly.
i agree that the picture with this blurb is not very good for promotional purposes. also, “depending on the time and day”? isn’t the point to have specifics? this is a great place, come on, do them right.
Fan of Martins: The time slots for the happy-hour food specials are listed above (see: Happy hours). Martins happy hour is unusually detailed, and I do have a word limit—so in lieu of listing the specific time slots for discounted sandwiches and the specific time slots for discounted appetizers, I grouped them together into an all-encompassing “Food-special” category.