After many a
stop and start, the Atlas District's H Street corridor will finally see the long-awaited
H Street Country Club open tonight. Brought to fruition by DC developer/restaurateur/man-about-town
Joe Englert (who also counts the
Rock and Roll Hotel,
The Red & The Black and
Palace of Wonders among his stable of popular destinations for area nightlife) and co-owners
Ricardo Vegara and
Blair Zervos, the 6800 square foot, 300-seat restaurant at
1335 H Street, NE, will offer up "Mexican cuisine with both southern and northern accents," (we don't know the difference either) along with beers, margaritas and tequilas of the same pedigree from along their 40-foot, tartan-covered bar.
The real crux of the HSCC’s appeal, however, is the in-house entertainment. Just as the nearby Palace of Wonders specializes in turn-of-the-century Fortean curiosities, the HSCC is will highlighting the best and rest of American pastimes with pool tables, shuffleboard, skeeball and, yes, mini-golf. The club’s second story hosts a 9-hole putt-putt course, designed by Arlington-based artist Lee T. Wheeler, which affords customers the chance to “shoot through the corridors of U Street, around the Washington Monument, and past towering K Street Lawyers” for a whopping seven bucks a pop. Baby back that, Chiles.
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