07/22/10
The weekend hears it’s winter in South America.
BRAND-NEW PERKS
Get the Rock Star Treatment at Lollapalooza. Also: Scotch Chocolate Bars.
This week, Perks is giving you the rock star treatment at Lollapalooza: 20% off your stay at the Hard Rock
Hotel Chicago, liberal use of their Gibson loaner guitars, gratis bottles and exclusive access to the
after-parties. Also: you’ll get 40% off your next purchase of six scotch chocolate bars. You can get
behind just about anything when the words scotch and bar are involved.
- 411:
- See more on Perks
BY THE BOWL
$4 Plates and Punches at Urbana
You love duck meatballs. You love spiked punches. Coincidentally, Urbana is serving up both at the bar all
weekend for its fourth anniversary. For four bucks each, grab bar snacks (crab beignets, seafood rolls,
stuffed piquillo peppers), plus a different punch every day. Finally, a use for that ladle you carry in your
briefcase.
- 411:
- Through Sunday, Urbana, Hotel Palomar, 2121 P St NW, 202-956-6650
SALE-ING
40% Off Summer Gear at Lost Boys
You’ve got plenty of boating, golfing and riverside drinking left in you this summer. Suit up
appropriately at the Georgetown men’s shop, which is discounting up to 40% on shirts, pants and shorts
from the likes of Theory, Rogan and Band of Outsiders. It beats wearing nothing but humidity.
- 411:
- Lost Boys, 1033 31st St NW, 202-333-0093
MEAT IN YOUR GLASS
Introducing the Half-Smoke Bloody Mary
Sure, you can now get omelets, French toast and dim sum on Saturday afternoon at the Source. But the far,
far more interesting news: they’re also whipping up three Bloody Marys, all dressed up with either
Szechuan chili paste and a pickled chili, Old Bay seasoning and crab, or the coup de grâce, a miniature
half-smoke. Because a whole half-smoke would be too much.
- 411:
- Saturdays, 11:30am-2pm, $8, The Source, 575 Pennsylvania Ave NW, 202-637-6100
LOVELY ’RITA
Margarita Pitchers on the Patio
The W has long been your destination for rooftop debauchery (and gawking at the White House snipers). Now,
it’s your spot for after-work pitchers of ginger margaritas on J&G Steakhouse’s sidewalk patio.
They’ll even throw in a gratis bowl of chili-lime popcorn. To go with the movie playing in your head.
- 411:
- Mondays, $29, J&G Steakhouse, W Hotel, 515 15th St NW, 202-661-2440
LAST STOP
Late-Night Sorbet and Cheese
You’re always looking for a new spot to put the finishing touches on a date. Try a dark nook in Taberna
del Alabardero, as you share mascarpone flan with orange sorbet and Spanish cheeses with cotton candy. Your
dates have been missing a certain carnival element.
- 411:
- Nightly, 8pm-close, Taberna del Alabardero, 1776 I St NW, 202-429-2200, see the menu
Only what you need to know.