Monday, September 29, 2008

Atlas District First Thursdays

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The Atlas District Celebrates Oktoberfest for First Thursday

The Atlas District’s second First Thursday events will celebrate the season with Oktoberfest. Thursday October 2, 2008 will find the bars and restaurants of H Street Northeast offering specials on beer and German treats.

Some of the Atlas District Oktoberfest events will be:

Dr. Granville Moore’s will feature selections of the best Oktoberfest beers from around the world. The kitchen plans on offering some tasty German specials. The staff, who enthusiastically dressed like the characters from Cheers during the first First Thursday’s 1984 night, is planning on donning “traditional Oktoberfest clothing.”

H Street Martini Lounge will offer wursts for $1 (while they last) and will have specials on their tasty German Chocolate Cake martini all night long.

Sticky Rice will have Pumpkin Ale for $3

The Argonaut Tavern will feature Oktoberfest beers and the kitchen will offer a brat and beer special.

The Red and the Black will offer $3 Harpoon Oktoberfest all night long.

The Rock and Roll Hotel’s kitchen will have pierogies, chicken schnitzel and grilled bratwurst on a stick.

Sova Espresso and Wine will be hosting a beer and cheese tasting that evening from 7pm-9pm. $25 per person (rsvp to info@sovadc.com)

The Atlas Performing Arts Center will have several performances that evening; Catalyst Theater’s stellar production of 1984, a preview performance of Second Line by Seret Scott and the Thursday Laugh Box comedy performance with Andrea Fuller in the Indigo Room. Atlas patrons can take their ticket stubs that evening to participating Atlas District venues to receive additional discounts.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Finally a beer special at Sticky Rice... wow..

Anonymous said...

I really like that "Atlas District" logo. Has that been adopted in some way? I think making that sign more ubiquitous would go a long way in the current "branding" effort that's going on here.

Anonymous said...

Isn't the beer and cheese tastings at SOVA kinda expensive? How much beer are we talking about here? 5 tastes? Does that equal 2 pints? or 1? and what are these cheeses? gold-flecked 10yearold gouda? I'm all for supporting local biz, but I'm not sure I'm getting some value there.

Anonymous said...

Anon 11:56

Stop being cheap. They're not serving Velvetta. In speaking with the owner, I understand 25 people or so have already RSVP'd and all the cheeses come from Cowgirl Creamery (not inexpensive at all). As far as the beer, I'm sure they'll pour at least a few ounces of each

Mike from 8th St.

Anonymous said...

I'm heading over to the Sova tasting tonight. Sounds like a good time to me...

Mike said...

$25 for a professionally-run beer and cheese tasting is not at all unusual. The tastings at Cheesetique and Cowgirl routinely cost $25-$40 per person for similar numbers of samples.

I'll be at the Sova tasting tonight (and I wrote about it over at DC Foodies to let others know about it, as well).