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While D.C. cooks have been known to spike chicken wings with everything from Old Bay seasoning to creme fraiche sauce, classic hot wing sauce still reigns supreme for many people. The pandemic only increased demand, leading kitchens across the city to add wings of all flavors to their menus that are here to stay. For those looking to satisfy a craving for the messy snack, here are several bars and restaurants serving spicy, saucy wings around town in all levels of Buffalo-style heat. Options range from carry outs and dive bars to some of the city’s top chef-driven kitchens.

Where to find bottomless drinks, weekend specials, free snacks, and more... The bad news: days are getting shorter. The good news: happy hours are getting longer (and cheaper, and better). Who says summer has all the fun? Check out these fall happy hours for bottomless drinks (!!!), all-day deals, weekend specials, and cheap, delicious eats—no $1-off $18 cocktails included.

Capital One Arena is in the Chinatown/Penn Quarter neighborhood, home to many great restaurants. But not all are suited for the lively Wizards, Caps, and concert crowds. These are a few of our favorite pre- and post-game options both in and around the Capital One Arena (formerly known as the Verizon Center)...

Present Company Public House opens tonight in Mount Vernon Triangle, replacing the former Sixth Engine space inside a historic firehouse with a renovated place for a former fine-dining chef to riff on American bar food...

If you want to see how Present Company, the new restaurant that opened on Friday in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood, evolves over the years, keep an eye on the wall behind the bar. The grid of shelves stretches to the ceiling. It is stocked with bottles of booze, obviously, but it also houses books guests can borrow (just before opening night, I spied a coffee table book about the history of flight and part of the Game of Thrones series, among others), a selection of draping plants, and some knick-knacks. But there’s a lot of empty space as well, which co-owner Nick Bernel hopes eventually gets filled up with new artifacts of the neighborhood space...

Chinatown’s newest bar isn’t attached to a hotel. It doesn’t have a killer rooftop view or a below ground ‘speakeasy’ or a theme that’s targeting the nostalgia center of your brain. It’s just a bar. It’s going to have to work that much harder to capture the attention of the neighborhood, but considering its owner’s past success, I think it’ll be up to the challenge.

The partners behind neighborhood hit The Pub & The People will open their new bar, Present Company Public House, this weekend in the former Sixth Engine space that was once the oldest operating firehouse in the District. It dates back to 1855 and was decommissioned in 1974...

I ran into one of the owners of Pub and the People outside of the old Sixth Engine space and he told me the name of the new place will be ‘Present Company’. They still did not know when they would be opening.