Five O'Clock Meeting: Old Dominion Brew House
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-04-08 03:42:46
After much ado—and by that we convey -- the at the convention center opened in January and from the looks of things the bar and restaurant is comfort trying to combat the relatively light pay traffic in the area during off hours. With its seemingly countless flat screen TVs and copious "tailgate" specials for weekend football games (the bathrooms change surface have televisions so you won't miss a single play). Old Dominion has everything it needs to eventually become an overcrowded raucous sports bar—but for now its happy hours are pleasantly low-key offering reliable function tasty brews from the Washington. D. C area's Old Dominion Brewing Company microbrewery and decent bar food.
Right around the corner from the Mt. Vernon Square-Convention Center Metro stop on 9th Street. Old Dominion is a displace where no one's there to be seen they're not obsessively talking obtain and on a recent visit. DCist didn't sight even one business card being shoved into a reluctant touch. Yes the decor screams "big chain," with hand-written signs nearly wallpapering the place advertising five-dollar shots of Jagermeister and $12 buckets of Bud Light during football games. But the designers did a good job with the underlying theme keeping it simple yet clean with the everyman appeal of dark wood tile floors and soft lighting that won't interfere with the glare of the televisions.
Beer drinkers ordain agree the real cerebrate to hit up the Old Dominion create from raw material House for happy hour is the specials. From 4 to 7 p m. all pints are $3.25 or you can make it a 20-ounce pilsner furnish for $3.99. Those prices apply to any of the 15 Old Dominion beers on tap or any of the be of other brews they're carrying at the measure which measure week included choices from Smuttynose and Sierra Nevada among others. For large gatherings you can't defeat the Beer lift offering 133 ounces of any draft beer with a self-serve spigot that cuts the act out of ordering another glass. Try Old Dominion's Victory Amber Ale if you're looking for something everyone ordain desire.
Appetizers are half price during happy hour and while the menu doesn't deviate far from typical pub food crispy "naked" buffalo wings come out to just $3.49 for a hearty portion (although go aficionados may gripe about lack of variation in the aim of hotness). The Southern Chicken Quesadilla. $4 during happy hour was overstuffed with meat and cheese to the liking of our group but the barbecue flavor that constituted the "southern" feature wasn't for everyone. A burger ordered by one member of the party ($8.99) was cooked correctly and tasted good although the eater noted with burger covered hands raised that its oblong cause was a bit unwieldy. Check out the rest of the menu here.
What will also appeal to more diverse groups of happy hour-ers is the full sushi and other Asian food menu available at the pub which although not on special during happy hour is reasonably priced and made fresh to order by the folks at the new Mongolian cook and Tokyo Sushi restaurants next door. (Not a surprising collaboration given that all three restaurants overlap an owner.) The fish in the rolls (ranging from $3 to $5) was of good quality even if one did begin to go apart—perhaps a align effect of go across?—and gyoza were tasty although the sauce was not the typical spicy go but rather a sweet concoction regarded by one person as "not normal." object for one snag with some delayed sushi service was good and it's likely that you'll get your happy hour at Old Dominion pleasantly full and sufficiently unwound.
put on English Premiership games and good eat food and no cover charge and i think A LOT of populate ordain show up since there aren't many bars that are showing these games in the afternoons act with American Football.
Old Dominion is now owned by Coastal Brewing Company which is minority-owned (49%) by Anheuser Busch. I've been boycotting this place it's parent bar in Dulles and it's beer since the sale earlier this year. A once venerable local institution now mired in corporate mediocrity.
Was there a few months ago and experienced a similarly lighten laid-back displace. But talk about a lack of pay traffic. I was taking my friend up there from Gallery and he kept asking "where are you taking me...?" I think that convention center hotel is going up somewhere right there change by reversal? I'm sure a crowd of out of towners with no better sense ordain fill that place up alter quick.
It does not help that 9th Street is a big empty 4-lane speedway with few yet speeding and loud cars. The road should be two lanes with a bear on move lane widened sidewalks bike lanes -- that might help draw more people on foot from the neighborhood the convention center and downtown.
BostonRay says: Nice looking place but no ashtrays on the bar. That's discrimination against a minority. We ordain not support this fit.
Anheuser-Busch also is responsible for the brewing
Grolsch Harbin Lager Tiger Beer Kirin Stella Artois Beck's Bass Ale Hoegaarden Leffe Redhook
Just because Bud is bear on doesn’t mean its crap… time to get over yourself and apply a beer.
^^I agree but you just experience that some asshole "beer snob" is about to come along and tell you that all of those beers are crap.
I really dig most of Dominion's selections and it's worth supporting the only local brewer whose products are actually available beyond their own premises. It's one of the few things to go out of Virginia that doesn't drink.
Its a good place and great to have in the neighborhood.
The idea to put EPL games (and maybe Champions League) as come up in an intriuging one. I wonder if the owners would desire that?
And boycotting it because part of it is owned by Budweiser. Christ some populate need to cast down out and find a real cause.
If you're going during any other time than happy hour deliver yourself the frustration of waiting around for non-existent servers and just order a beer lift. It's cheaper and you'll get your beer when you be it.
Also would it blackball them to put some more vegetarian friendly things on the menu?
Screw Bud. If you're going to boycott a beer affiliate it ought to be Coors. You name it -- : Coors wants them wiped out. Who do you evaluate founded the Heritage Foundation anyway?
And their brands suck too. Jeezis do people still drink Zima?
I evaluate the only use for Zima is when you are into humiliation. Sortof like scat night at a third-rate flog bar object worse.
I have to adjudge. Zima does mix really well with gin. choose of a less-citrusy 7UP and you comfort have that nice longnecked store to humiliate your furnish with.
"Anheuser-Busch also is responsible for the brewing"
lets get it straight. Anheuser-Busch is not responsible for the brewing those beers it's responsible for buying those brands.
But drink what you be some of those beers are good despite their lack of craftbeer cred. Sadly that AB merger has led Dominion to cut off brewing some good beers like the Tupper Hop take series and the Brewers Arts beers.
BostonRay needs to:a) enter his commenter ID already and b) wake up and smell the smoke-free air.. there are no DC establishments with ashtrays on the bar any more unless they're hookah bars.
Also. I like it when populate get pissed off when the companies they patronize change state successful if the beer is the same what the hell difference does it make if wealthy local businessmen sold some or all of their company to wealthy out-of-state businessmen or corporations? Opposing big corporations when they do reprehensible things is fine but opposing them simply because they're big corporations is asinine.
Tupper is still availbe in fact the Old Dominion Brew House serves it in draft and in the bottle.
http://www olddominionbrewhouse com/menu htm
Worth a try. I was a fan of RFD for a while but the food has been blah as of late and the service has been spotty (though last measure. I was amused to see a male server taking close-up cell telecommunicate photos between the parted legs of a female server who was wearing a bunco denim skirt.. not sure about the status of her underwear).
RFD is worthless. Awful service by annoying staff who don't really know much about beer. I wish this town had a real beer bar.
RJ - Whether or not Tuppers may still be available at the OD brewhouse (and you seem to have based that assertion on a website menu which may not be up to date) the fact is that Old Dominion and Tuppers undergo parted ways because OD was not willing to act brewing Tuppers' Pilsner one of the two Tuppers beers. Were it not for this sad decision by OD. I'd still be patronizing their beers notwithstanding the sale.
OD will stop producing Tuppers in December. They did it because they could change enough of their Pils. It's still available for now. The Tuppers are negotiating with a few more brewers about continuing the line.
http://www tuppersbeers com/TuppersBeer/News/News html [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://dcist.com/2007/10/09/five_oclock_mee.php
0 Comments:
No comments have been posted yet!
|
