DC’s Newest Restaurant and Bar Is a Beachy Ode to Great Vacations—and Patrick Swayze

At DC’s latest bar and restaurant, it’s trip all yr lengthy.

Vagabond—from the staff behind native haunts Shaw’s Tavern, 801 and Prost DC—opens Friday within the metropolis’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. It’ll be serving up meals and drinks impressed by a number of the crew’s favourite journey locations and surf spots around the globe, with a heavy emphasis on tropical flavors and seafood.

“Wherever you journey you join with the cultures by eating out and assembly the individuals,” the restaurateur Eric Heidenberger instructed Eater DC.

Cocktails right here keep true to that ethos, operating the gamut from the Cerritos Seashore (mezcal, grapefruit, lime and grapefruit soda all clarified with coconut milk) to the Las Dunas (a house-made pineapple-infused vodka martini with coconut lime foam). The beer listing options plenty of Mexican lagers, in addition to Puerto Rican, Portuguese and Dominican cans.

The meals menu, from govt chef Roberto Ascencio, attracts closely on the cuisines of Portugal, Hawaii and Mexico, amongst others. Snackables equivalent to tuna ceviche and quesabirria will anchor the appetizer listing. The entrees, in the meantime, will vary from grilled octopus with polenta to grilled prawns with seafood rice and Portuguese fish stew.

“We are attempting to supply from purveyors which can be in a position to get genuine provides from these locations,” Heidenberger stated concerning the meals.

The beachy predominant room will hold diners heat throughout winter months, and Vagabond will finally broaden to the rooftop subsequent summer season. For those who’re an unapologetic ’80s nostalgist or only a Patrick Swayze fan, the staff has opened a downstairs speakeasy known as Swayze’s, in a nod to the late actor.

“We’ve all had an admiration for Patrick most of our lives,” Heidenberger stated. “It began as a joke and snowballed.”

The themed bar—with drinks named after Swayze film quotes—will notably serve the beer that the actor’s Soiled Dancing character drinks: Utica Membership, which might truly be fairly troublesome to search out. Sooner or later, the house would possibly even host theme nights impressed by Swayze’s films, like a clay-spinning class à la Ghost.

To start out, Vagabond will likely be open Thursday to Saturday, 4 pm to three am, with every day hours and weekend brunch coming quickly. Swayze’s will open at 10 pm.

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