Logan Circle Lands a New Golf-Themed Bar With Retro Aptitude

D.C.’s shock new clubhouse of kinds comes swinging in scorching this weekend. The Muni brings Logan Circle’s nightlife strip a classy spot to snack on pizza and sip spiked iced teas whereas engaged on their recreation. The Muni opens Friday, January 17, on the second ground of the Mai Place condominium constructing (1400 14th Avenue NW).

The six-story constructing’s developer Jim Abdo is a associate on the playful new undertaking, which is operated by H2 Collective — the Hilton hospitality brothers’ prolific D.C. group behind locations like El Rey, Cafe Colline, Crimson, and Chez Billy Sud. As soon as the pandemic subsided, Abdo determined to remodel his former workplace house right into a sprawling bar with room for 280 clients at a time. The Muni’s title and theme pay homage to the workforce’s shared love for municipal golf programs.

The Muni sits atop Gamers Membership, H2’s retro-styled consuming den with arcade video games, DJs, and meals ordered in from its Shake Shack neighbor. “We wish to say the Muni is the ‘graduate’ of Gamers Membership,” says H2’s regional operations supervisor Chris Janiak. A door to the left of Gamers Membership leads the way in which as much as the Muni, the place a “professional store” upon entry invitations clients to decorate the half with for-sale swag like embroidered caps and customised golf tees.

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The Muni’s Mad Males-like look embraces the game’s midcentury-era rise to fame. Previous-school pictures of {golfing} greats be a part of tufted leather-based couches, loads of preppy plaid accents, and a good-looking inexperienced paint job. Riffs on nation membership classics embrace a vodka-fueled “Transfusion,” Screwdriver-esque “Breakfast Ball,” and “Don Daly” spiked with Don Julio ($14-$15) and principally canned beer listing. A brief choice of consuming snacks embrace 10-inch pizzas, rooster tenders, and fries. (“We aren’t going for a Michelin star,” jokes Janiak of the no-frills meals menu.)

Excessive-tech digital simulators let patrons purpose for a gap in a single on among the world’s most iconic programs, from St. Andrews in Scotland to Torrey Pines in San Diego, and tee time costs beginning at $50 per individual. Video games aren’t restricted to golf; clients may also throw a soccer and shoot penalty kicks on an interactive darts show. 9-foot-long placing greens double as spots to play video games like “putt” pong and tic-tac-toe. The Muni retains the occasion going till as late as 2:45 a.m. on weekends. Day by day hours begin at 5 p.m. in the course of the week and midday on weekends.

Leisure additionally comes within the type of 20 TVs, which plan to point out love for D.C. sports activities groups. The NFL Washington Commanders face off towards the Detroit Lions within the playoffs on Saturday evening.

And followers of cult basic Caddyshack are in luck on the Muni, with the 1980 hit being broadcasted on loop on two big projectors close to the bar. And there’s an precise probability the comedic sports activities film’s star Invoice Murray may present up at some point and hit a couple of rounds. “I’m pals along with his sons after I lived in Charleston,” says Janiak.

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