Description: An upscale art lounge on Capitol Hill.
Decor: Sleek leather furniture, innovative drink tables
(they’re made of tree stumps), and a mass of works created in eight
days by the L.A.-based artist collective Goldmine Shithouse.
Previous business locale: The beloved-yet-doomed Backstage
Thrift secondhand store.
Happy hours: Daily 4–7 pm.
Happy-hour drink specials: $3 well drinks, $3 select glasses
of wine, $3 drafts (Roger’s Pilsner, Navigator Dark, and more), $2 off
cocktails.
Happy-hour food specials: An impressive lineup of crepes,
with choices ranging from the fancy ($9 smoked-salmon crepe, served
with house-made crème fraîche and béchamel sauce)
to the workaday ($6 PB&J crepe, all ingredients made from
scratch).
