Fox and Hounds is the best. Go there during happy hour and you get a double for $3. Also try Stoney's (although they are closing soon) and Post Pub. They are both on L Street between 13th and 15th, NW.

Along similar lines, one of my friends was having a hard time at work and would proceed to drink heavily while home alone, sitting on his second-floor apartmnet balcony. One evening to prepare for his nightly ritual he was getting two cases of beer and a bag of Dorito's from the 7-11. The clerk aske...