Fifty Feet of Liquid Pleasure in the Tap Room

With the opening of the downstairs floor, the Black Squirrel has added 32 tap lines, raising its total… [more]

Fifty Feet of Liquid Pleasure in the Tap Room Fifty Feet of Liquid Pleasure in the Tap Room

The Black Squirrel

Once upon a time, in a watering hole on Wisconsin Avenue NW, far, far removed from the clarity of the… [more]

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So Good Burgers

The cult burger hit of Washington, DC.  Nominated in the Best Burger category of The Washington Post’s… [more]

So Good Burgers So Good Burgers

Christmas Ale to Wash Away Friday the 13th

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Here’s to Christmas Ale, the Great Lakes antidote to Jason Voorhees, the hockey-mask-wearing slasher who has littered big and small screens alike with lots of blood and gore on Friday the 13th the last 32 years. The Black Squirrel trots out Christmas Ale this Friday (April 13), starting at 5 p.m., to blunt the mindless evil of this [...]

Flow Tribes Exclamation Point on St. Pats Day

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Straight out of New Orleans and into your earholes, Flow Tribe returns to the Black Squirrel on Saturday, March 17, looking to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in a big way. Flow Tribe comes at you with all the delicacy of a sledgehammer, creating “backbone-cracking music” and a soul-shaking mixture of styles and sounds guaranteed to drive [...]

Buckets and Basketball

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 With the ACC Tournament getting underway this Thursday, March 8, 2012, at Philips Arena in Atlanta, the Black Squirrel will be featuring Tar Heel-stye fried chicken and five breweries from the First in Flight state. The breweries: Mother Earth, French Broad, Big Boss, Foothills and Weeping Radish. Here is the Chef Gene Sohn-inspired food special [...]

Invasion of a Monster Black Squirrel

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This big fellow recently mingled with patrons and passers-by after dropping in on its namesake restaurant in Adams Morgan. A relatively mild winter apparently has been incredibly kind to this particular squirrel, who appears to have gorged on super-sized acorns the last few months. All had a good time, the Jersey barriers be darned. This [...]