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I've been living in DC for 3 months now, and I can't wait to go to a Nats game! Can anyone recommend a good bar or pub for me to check out before a night game?
I'm not interested in a chain or tourist trap, but really looking for more of a "true local" feel. Yes, I know I am not a true local yet, but I'm working on it.
Go to 8th & Penn SE (Eastern Market Metro). The corridor is filled with bars. Plus you can walk down (12 minutes) M street to Nats Park.
Thanks for the recommendation, DC's Finest.
I just looked up the Eastern Market Metro area on yelp.com, which is an up-and-coming local attractions review site I like. Seems like there are a ton of well-reviewed pubs right in that area.
I'm living near a metro stop so that makes transportation easy too.
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There will be new ones near the park soon, but for the time being if you metro in to Capital South, Tortilla Coast and Bullfeathers are near that stop as you head towards Nats Park.
Red Loft at the ballpark itself is also a good time.
Looking forward to going to Nationals Park myself; I'm going for the first time tomorrow (Thursday). Of course, when your job is located at the same Metro station as the ballpark, it makes it easier to get there.
I won a pair of Nationals tickets last week at work and all of your recommendations came in handy! Their home field is such a nice ballpark, and you are allowed to bring in a sealed soda, water, or juice bottle, as well as a sealed bag of your own snacks.
Keep that in mind and you will save a fortune. (no $5 hot dogs for me!)
I won a pair of Nationals tickets last week at work and all of your recommendations came in handy! Their home field is such a nice ballpark, and you are allowed to bring in a sealed soda, water, or juice bottle, as well as a sealed bag of your own snacks.
Keep that in mind and you will save a fortune. (no $5 hot dogs for me!)
Actually, you can bring in unlimited food, but you can only bring in ONE bottle of WATER (1 liter maximum size) into Nationals Park. (This rule is actually similar to what they had at RFK Stadium, except I think you could bring in multiple bottles of water.) You cannot bring in soda or juice, even in plastic or paper box containers.
I'm not a bar guy, and my suggestion is a chain (albeit a DC area-based one), but one place that may be worth eating at before the game is Five Guys. They have very good hamburgers and their regular order of fries is massive (you can take whatever you don't eat into the park with you). Five Guys also has free peanuts. There is a Five Guys located near the EAST end of the Navy Yard Metro station (Nationals Park is closer to the west end of the station); to get there cross the street in front of you at the top of the escalator (New Jersey Avenue SE; there is a CVS there), and walk around to the back side of the building with the CVS, to 2nd Street SE (nearly parallel to NJ Ave.) There is also a Subway next door, and my vendor I go to sometimes at work stays out prior to Nationals games and is stationed just down the street (M Street) at 3rd Street SE. She has fairly good half-smokes and she's cheap too (at least when I stop by at lunch time while at work).
Let me add there is a decent number of restaurants/bars all along 8th Street SE between Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street. I'd guess the distance from 8th & M Streets SE to the ballpark is close to 1 mile.
Wow, you can bring unlimited food into the Nationals ballpark? That makes me want to go to games much more often.
I've heard great things about Five Guys, but I haven't made it there yet - sounds like a good project for this weekend.
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