Drinking D.C.: Speakeasies in the Washington Post

In its Going Out Guide last week, the Washington Post (digital subscriptions available here) covered several D.C.-area speakeasies in D.C.’s Hidden Bars, Ranked from Easiest to Hardest to Get into.  In the article, the Post’s Holley Simmons (@holleyunedited) tells us how to get seats at Chicken + Whiskey on 14th Street, Nocturne and Backroom Bar in Shaw, Captain Gregory’s in Alexandria, Le Cafe Descartes at the French Embassy, Sidecar downtown, and Bar 3100 at the British Embassy. Consider it a roadmap to your next bar crawl in D.C.

Simmons also tantalizes us with tales of an Ernest Hemingway-themed bar at the Cuban Embassy, to which she was unable to gain access, but the existence of which was confirmed by another Post reporter in 2015. Bonus points to the reader who makes it in and reports back to us!

Update:  Some Instagram sleuthing suggests that the Cuban Embassy’s Hemingway bar indeed exists!  Check it out:

The Ernest Hemingway bar inside Cuba’s embassy 🍹

A post shared by Julia Greenough (@juliamaegreenough) on Jan 14, 2016 at 5:36pm PST

“Hemmingway’s”

A post shared by Bryan Kevan (@bryanmkevan) on Feb 10, 2016 at 5:18pm PST

Someone tell us how its drinks are already!