This is a great place to educate yourself and take your beer-drinking up a notch. It has an authentic feel with wooden tables and low lighting. The well educated staff are ready and willing to let you know anything and everything about all the beers they have on the menu and up on their chalk board.I asked what they had on draft, and they only had one beer. When I asked why, my waiter enlightened me — most Belgian brews are bottled... I found a good summary of what he said on another site (http://www.beermad.org.uk/)
"Most of the best Belgian beers are "bottle conditioned." This means that the beer hasn't been pasteurised and filtered before it's bottled, so it's still a living thing, not dead like, for example, Newcastle Brown. The reason for this is twofold; first pasteurising beer inevitably has a bad effect on its flavour; that's why Real Ale tastes better than keg. Secondly, because the beer is still alive, it continues to mature in the bottle like a fine wine and can continue to change and improve for many years. This also means that a bottle conditioned beer will still taste superb many years after the pasteurised equivalent has become un-drinkable..."Here are a few snapshots:
board posted on the second level with all beer in stock, not currently on the menu
Mmm! Delicious.
This is one of my favorite spots in DC. The food is FANTASTIC (Tim & I loved the Frites and the antipasto plate), and they are well known for having great mussels (I myself am not a huge fan of mussels, in general, so I can't comment). Dr. Granville Moore's is a bit hard to get to since it is in the Atlas District off H-street and does not participate in the free shuttle most other venues in the area share. Know how to get there before you jump in a cab as they tried to take us across DC despite citing the address, area, as well an neighboring bars. The trip will also be more expensive than the average trip to another bar because of the quality of food and drink, but treat yourself to this one. It was good homework for my trip to Belgium next year!
last note on a bit of trivia of the name — Dr.Granville Moore was a neighborhood Doctor who twice a week provided pro-bono work for the sick and ailing members of the community. The place blends into the rest of the street well so keep your eyes open for the wood door or you might walk right on by.
the deals:
Varies day-to-day
Monday:
$10 Mussels
$1 Off Drafts
(5pm-7pm)
Tuesday:
1/2 Price Wine Night
(Bottles Only - With Purchase of a Sandwich, Entree or Order of Mussels)
Wednesday:
$5 Bavik, Hoegaarden and Affligem all night!
Thursday:
$1 off Chimay Red, White and Blue
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Dr M's is kinda like going to the real Doctor's office (except you're not really sick silly, you just want some beer in your belly). You may have to describe your symptoms via your taste in beer to the good doctor. Then they examine your empty stomach and then give you a Belgium prescription.
Nice work Dr. M. Your frites are definately good and rival Napoleon's Bistro near Adams Morgan. Make sure you try all the sauces offered with the fries while your listening to the good music playing upstairs.
Bobby Flay even knows how good they are - he hosted an episode of Throwdown there, a moules frites battle. The local boys won, of course.
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