12/26/11
Anti Matter
Introducing Your Anti-Resolutions
In just a week or so, you’ll make a resolution or two. We’ll assume you’ll keep them. Which doesn’t leave much time to give yourself an extra helping of vice. Here are a few ideas...
BED HEAD
Bedding Down Above a Beer Bar
Your recipe for a lost weekend of Keith Richards proportions: a
bar with 550 beers on its list, and a not-exactly-luxe hotel room over top of said bar so you won’t
have far to go after tackling said list. We can only imagine what kind of debauchery lies over the hotel
room.
- 411:
- The Baron Hotel, 1523 22nd St NW, 202-293-1888
GET LIT
Football, Now with More Smoking
You’ll need a big screen this week. Preferably one you can see through the haze of cigar smoke. All week,
this tobacco shop is throwing open its smoking lounge for the big games. And you’ll be within easy reach
of a Churchill-sized Nicaraguan when your three-team parlay hits.
- 411:
- W. Curtis Draper Tobacconist, 4916 Del Ray Ave, Bethesda, MD, 301-907-7990, see the calendar
MARSH LAND
The Beer Marshmallow You Need
The first thing you should know about the creator of your marshmallows: he started making them for DC
Rollergirls matches, where his wife competes. The second thing you should know: he sometimes makes them with
beer. Goes well with potato chips. Also goes well with MMA on TV at 3:30am.
- 411:
- $9 per bag, available at The Karen Mary Co., 202-615-9326
CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION
A $58 Burger, Because You’re Worth It
You’ve vowed not to flaunt your wealth so much. So better get into BLT Steak now for the 1%
Burger—Kobe beef, short rib, foie gras, gold leaf and Grey Poupon. Then walk home directly through
McPherson Square while adjusting your monocle and complaining about the “riffraff.”
- 411:
- $58, available Mon-Fri, 11:30am-2:30pm, at BLT Steak, 1625 I St NW, 202-689-8999
BI-POLAR
A Giant Wheel of Cheese and Truffles
And here’s how to usher out 2011: a giant wheel of brie-like polarbert cheese at Bourbon Steak. Which is
then topped with Alba white truffles, warm potato dumplings, Tuscan olive oil and sea salt. It’s meant for
four people. But you’re hungry.
- 411:
- $350, available at Bourbon Steak at the Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW, 202-944-2026
Only what you need to know.