The new Line hotel has cemented itself as party central in the partiest of D. C. neighborhoods, Adams Morgan. And the heart of that scene is Brothers and Sisters, the sprawling bar/restaurant that fills the lobby of a former church with the right mix of travelers and locals. The drinks come from veteran barman Todd Thrasher (of Alexandria’s PX), so Read more...

While this issue of Esquire was in the process of shipping to the printers, we learned that Prairie School was shutting its doors before the end of May. It’s a shame if you never got to see it, because the place was a beaut. Conceived by Jim Meehan, who helped codify the speakeasy motif in 2007 with PDT (his saloon-behind-a-phone-booth Read more...

In 2014, Chad Conley and Greg Mitchell took over a decades-old, 15-seat restaurant housed in a Pollard train car built in 1927 and turned it into the ideal realization of a daytime Americana diner. Eating here haunts me: I can’t find better light, lemony, buttery pancakes, or a more precisely engineered egg sandwich, and theirs is the only tuna melt Read more...