Washington Post: Top 10 Bars in Washington DC - 2017

One of the major goals of Urban Atlas is to help travelers and tourists identify what to see and experience when on vacation. Restaurants and bars present one of the tougher aspects, as the landscape is always changing with new establishments opening all the time, as well as changes at existing restaurants. 

Jack Rose Dining Saloon Whiskey Collection - CC: Thomas Cizauskas

Beyond guides and sites like this one, a great resource for this information can often be found in local publications. While these are not targeted towards travelers and tourists, they are often the most consistently updated information sources available. This is especially true in Washington DC, as the Washington Post, Washingtonian, and many other publications do a lot of hard work visiting and reviewing restaurants and bars. Urban Atlas identifies the best of these and then posts them to the External Recommendations page, for easy reference.

In Washington DC, there is no better guide to restaurants and bars then the Fall and Spring Dining Guides. Tom Sietsema, the Washington Post Dining Critic, is behind these behemoth efforts, in the Fall writing about the top restaurants in the Washington DC area, and in the Spring, revisiting previously reviewed Restaurants.  The guide has also extended beyond restaurants reviews, with Washington Post Bar and Beer Critic Fritz Hahn publishing his top 10 bar list.

Washington Post - Top 10 Bars (We’ll never agree about D.C.’s best bars, but we ranked them anyway)

While no list is definitive or perfect, Fritz provides a great roundup of the stand-out bars in Washington DC, to include beer standout The Sovereign, whisky standout Jack Rose, and cocktail standout The Columbia Room.