We all love March 17th. It’s a full day dedicated to early-morning binge drinking, grown men dressed as leprechauns, attractive woman demanding kisses in celebration of 1/16th of their ancestry and excessive profanity in fake Irish accents. In all honesty, one day a year just isn’t enough.Luckily, the good people of Lindy Promotions and Miller Lite agree. That’s why they've been hosting the “Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Cap-City Bar Tour” every September for the past seventeen years. This year’s event showcased eleven of the most popular bars in Midtown D.C.; each offering unique food specials and an abundance of people watching. The Metromix team took to the streets with the pub crawlers to toast the Patron Saint of Ireland, equipped with a camera and plenty of swag.
Our tour began at Rumors, where a crowd of boisterous twenty-and-thirty-somethings devoured half-priced burgers and mapped out their plan of attack. From there, crawlers were free to jump in and out of a cluster of bars in the area, including Black Rooster Pub, Recessions, James Hoban’s Pub, Mackey’s, Madhatter, Porter’s, Steve’s Bar Room, Penang and Singapore Bistro. By the end of the crawl (around 9 p.m.), most of the honorary Irishmen had descended on Dupont’s Front Page, resulting in the unanticipated mingling of well-dressed young professionals and inebriated partiers decked out in shamrock beads and green top hats. St. Patty would have been proud.
Some might say it's difficult to contrive a true St. Patrick's Day vibe while sipping down Miller Lite and Sparks in the middle of September (especially in a bar named after a country in Southeast Asia). It's a valid criticism, but try saying that to the drunk guy in the kilt singing out of tune to Dropkick Murphys. After all, when it comes to excuses to drink in the middle of the day with hundreds of total strangers, we’re all a little Irish.
