Not sure where this post truly belongs. Just figured I would share this under the ongoing "Just How Bad is DC" thread to pay it forward since before I moved to DC in early 2010 for work I found out about Roosh (5 Best DC Bars to Meet Women) when googling good bars to meet women to hookup with. Currents (converted Dragonfly) and Front Page still deserve an honorable mention. Love the Front Page Thursday $2 Coronas. It can be slightly hit or miss so don't be afraid to bounce if nothing's cooking by midnight. Get to know their bartenders.
Before going further, need to disclose my demographical disclosure: 29/30 year old white guy running solo dolo and with cool guy/partier/traveler game and admittedly use looks, fitness level, and style to advantage.
I agree DC is a sinkhole of female talent... and rarely do people go out unless it's in a big "group" to celebrate either a kickball game or someone’s sister-in-law's roommate's best friend birthday, but when life gives you lemons, make lemonade! We all know the area attracts boring people... and of course (for the most part) a pretty girl isn't going to go into policymaking. Women seem to be lazy in that way... rarely if one has beauty will she apply her brains (and vica versa), but oh well. But I've have had good experiences in my job rotation year and a half here, picking up +19 last year and +9 (actually having a fly girlfriend keeping me down) this year. Be rested assured the notches must pass Roosh's ego-test – a man must be willing to be seen in public holding hands walking around the Mall with their conquest. Good times considering juggling a work travel lifestyle and a demanding job... while accompanying a fewer of the flier girls on out-of-town sojurns before actually trying to hang out more with a woman I met that’s worth my time. Probably in the DC area the most pleasing woman you will meet will work in a feminine field, say a schoolteacher (not in education policy, lol!). A charter jet flight attendant who openly aspired to be a Playboy Playmate would have to be one of my highlights.
Tips:
Go out early ahead of the wave! 10 to 11:30 p.m. will be primetime while all the chumps stuffed with greasy food have left, and the douchebags and their “crew” are still pre-drinking, yo! You'll have higher quality and more receptive women to choose from. Skip happy hours. It's a decidedly non-sexual vibe with the work and kickball crowd, with beta orbiter galore = yeck. Go to the gym instead to get pumped for the nighttime.
Use POF! Set up a page and log in a few times a week to keep your profile active and displayed as a potential match to other girls online. Don't be afraid to write a restrictive profile so you come off as the "man that knows what he wants" writing that you're only attracted to women that have worldly experience and are into modeling and fitness, etc. so only legitimate girls write you. You'll get a few messages a month.
Consider meetup groups. I've attended events from the "20s and 30s Going Out Meet Up" group and there's a few decent nighttime events and you're never committed to it if you don't like the people there. Warning: The coordinator T.J. is a beta who will slowly become less friendly as he realizes you're banging a different girl from each event. Skip the daytime events. Focus on the Boat Cruise (do it at least once, but is pricey), Club AmBUSh (skip the routine Ultrabar final stop – T.J. used to bartend there and actually thinks it is a good time – see much ridiculed Ultrabar picture posted in this forum), open Club Nights, Halloween party, etc. nighttime events which are just the way to go. Girls won't be attending unless they are actually looking to meet someone, and to make your job easier, they will be wearing a glow bracelet for easy hunting (you can even just look at the calendar and figure out the bar line up if you don't want to be part of the group and can usually get into places without being charged cover).
Check out groups such as the International Club of DC and Embassy Events. I strongly recommend the French Embassy Summer Gala and Discotheque at the National Postal Museum. Huge bashes with fly and mysterious girls.
Dewey! Shameless girls of the DC area (and some trashy Baltimore/Philly) that like to drink and fuck go here for summer weekends. The advanced move is to not book an expensive house share or hotel. Just go out there channeling Nikki from the movie "Spread." If you must, reserve (or sneak into) a $40/night campsite (access showers are a must during the muggy summer) as a backup. Plenty of beach party houses (bars close at 1 a.m. so find a party to drink all the beer bought by the providers and fuck their girls on the couches). Parking is difficult but there's metered parking until midnight that keeps spaces available (by the Subway) within walking distance to the Starboard and the other bars close by.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge traffic and drive can be a pain, so there's... Georgetown Waterfront for summer nights. Good if you got solo game down. Sequoia and Tony and Joe's. Hang out at the corner of a bar and see what happens.
Other honorable mentions (everyone has their favorite line-up of bars, so in no way is this an authoritative list, just a sampling of what works for me):
Rock Bottom Wednesday night (showcases the pretty girls of Arlington that like to drink), show up at 8 and watch them drink $1.50 drafts until 9. If need to transition and get more “hands on”, bring your new acquaintance to Union Jacks for the dance floor/energy. If it was a no-go in Arlington, jet over to ESL and the other Dupont clubs (slower = better since only deranged girls go out late night in the middle of the week), and hang at corner against wall of upstairs bar.
Public Bar weekends gets the crowd if you’re into the numbers game. Stake out by the corner of the second floor bar close to the women's bathroom line.
Skip Clarendon (no, seriously). Courthouse might be better. Gua Rapo and Ireland Four Courts if you must.
Don't overlook Old Town in Alexandria. Much more laid back vibe. Noted that cops are horrendous on the GW so tone back the drinking if returning the DC same night.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Not sure if people on this forum actually meet each other, but feel free to drop me a private message if these venues work for you... curious how you all make out.
Before going further, need to disclose my demographical disclosure: 29/30 year old white guy running solo dolo and with cool guy/partier/traveler game and admittedly use looks, fitness level, and style to advantage.
I agree DC is a sinkhole of female talent... and rarely do people go out unless it's in a big "group" to celebrate either a kickball game or someone’s sister-in-law's roommate's best friend birthday, but when life gives you lemons, make lemonade! We all know the area attracts boring people... and of course (for the most part) a pretty girl isn't going to go into policymaking. Women seem to be lazy in that way... rarely if one has beauty will she apply her brains (and vica versa), but oh well. But I've have had good experiences in my job rotation year and a half here, picking up +19 last year and +9 (actually having a fly girlfriend keeping me down) this year. Be rested assured the notches must pass Roosh's ego-test – a man must be willing to be seen in public holding hands walking around the Mall with their conquest. Good times considering juggling a work travel lifestyle and a demanding job... while accompanying a fewer of the flier girls on out-of-town sojurns before actually trying to hang out more with a woman I met that’s worth my time. Probably in the DC area the most pleasing woman you will meet will work in a feminine field, say a schoolteacher (not in education policy, lol!). A charter jet flight attendant who openly aspired to be a Playboy Playmate would have to be one of my highlights.
Tips:
Go out early ahead of the wave! 10 to 11:30 p.m. will be primetime while all the chumps stuffed with greasy food have left, and the douchebags and their “crew” are still pre-drinking, yo! You'll have higher quality and more receptive women to choose from. Skip happy hours. It's a decidedly non-sexual vibe with the work and kickball crowd, with beta orbiter galore = yeck. Go to the gym instead to get pumped for the nighttime.
Use POF! Set up a page and log in a few times a week to keep your profile active and displayed as a potential match to other girls online. Don't be afraid to write a restrictive profile so you come off as the "man that knows what he wants" writing that you're only attracted to women that have worldly experience and are into modeling and fitness, etc. so only legitimate girls write you. You'll get a few messages a month.
Consider meetup groups. I've attended events from the "20s and 30s Going Out Meet Up" group and there's a few decent nighttime events and you're never committed to it if you don't like the people there. Warning: The coordinator T.J. is a beta who will slowly become less friendly as he realizes you're banging a different girl from each event. Skip the daytime events. Focus on the Boat Cruise (do it at least once, but is pricey), Club AmBUSh (skip the routine Ultrabar final stop – T.J. used to bartend there and actually thinks it is a good time – see much ridiculed Ultrabar picture posted in this forum), open Club Nights, Halloween party, etc. nighttime events which are just the way to go. Girls won't be attending unless they are actually looking to meet someone, and to make your job easier, they will be wearing a glow bracelet for easy hunting (you can even just look at the calendar and figure out the bar line up if you don't want to be part of the group and can usually get into places without being charged cover).
Check out groups such as the International Club of DC and Embassy Events. I strongly recommend the French Embassy Summer Gala and Discotheque at the National Postal Museum. Huge bashes with fly and mysterious girls.
Dewey! Shameless girls of the DC area (and some trashy Baltimore/Philly) that like to drink and fuck go here for summer weekends. The advanced move is to not book an expensive house share or hotel. Just go out there channeling Nikki from the movie "Spread." If you must, reserve (or sneak into) a $40/night campsite (access showers are a must during the muggy summer) as a backup. Plenty of beach party houses (bars close at 1 a.m. so find a party to drink all the beer bought by the providers and fuck their girls on the couches). Parking is difficult but there's metered parking until midnight that keeps spaces available (by the Subway) within walking distance to the Starboard and the other bars close by.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge traffic and drive can be a pain, so there's... Georgetown Waterfront for summer nights. Good if you got solo game down. Sequoia and Tony and Joe's. Hang out at the corner of a bar and see what happens.
Other honorable mentions (everyone has their favorite line-up of bars, so in no way is this an authoritative list, just a sampling of what works for me):
Rock Bottom Wednesday night (showcases the pretty girls of Arlington that like to drink), show up at 8 and watch them drink $1.50 drafts until 9. If need to transition and get more “hands on”, bring your new acquaintance to Union Jacks for the dance floor/energy. If it was a no-go in Arlington, jet over to ESL and the other Dupont clubs (slower = better since only deranged girls go out late night in the middle of the week), and hang at corner against wall of upstairs bar.
Public Bar weekends gets the crowd if you’re into the numbers game. Stake out by the corner of the second floor bar close to the women's bathroom line.
Skip Clarendon (no, seriously). Courthouse might be better. Gua Rapo and Ireland Four Courts if you must.
Don't overlook Old Town in Alexandria. Much more laid back vibe. Noted that cops are horrendous on the GW so tone back the drinking if returning the DC same night.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Not sure if people on this forum actually meet each other, but feel free to drop me a private message if these venues work for you... curious how you all make out.