June 7, 2005
Smith Point's Awkward Position
Like the double-faced Janus, there are two Smith Points. One is the Georgetown restaurant loved by neighbors for its food, the other is the exclusive club environment that gets going later toward midnight, made famous by two infamous patrons, the Bush twins. And numerous people (including these women who were apparently White House interns last summer who posted their W.H. photos on Webshots) have followed in their wake.
As some community interests in Georgetown continue to challenge the Smith Point's liquor license over the crowds and noise associated with the basement establishment, the West End Guide in its June edition profiles the two Smith Points.
And Smith Point is stuck between a rock and a hard place because of its occupancy constraints, which is set at 85 people. Robert Blair tells the West End Guide:
"The people inside don’t have a good time because they think it’s empty," he said, "and the people outside are mad because they can’t get in. We need a higher occupancy to stay in business."
Ever wonder what they drink in such an exclusive place? $4 Miller Lites and $10 Red Bull and vodkas.
>> DCist on the twins putting Smith Point in jeopardy and potential choices for Jen and Barb's new watering hole. We'd like to say congrats to Kriston Capps of Grammar.police, who in comments said: "Hell? Oh, I kid -- it had to be said. I'm sure I'll see them at Saint Ex." His prediction was right.

I totally made out with Jenna that night at Saint-Ex.
OMG...the captions on the photos in the WH intern's album make me want to vomit!
My *fave* -- "Here's me and Mikey in Dupont Circle Stopping for a photo op before me and Michael and Millis went to a local homosexual hangout for brunch (by accident)"
Are you kidding? She's great. Save your vomiting for the keg party--God knows she will. I love DC in the summer!
I was also wanting to comment on her caption re: "the local homosexual hangout." I think I might go back to her hometown and take a photo in her neighborhood after hanging at the "local chubby rich republican sorority girl" hangout.
God, I hope that no one accidentally thought that they were homosexuals! Don't they understand? IT WAS AN ACCIDENT! *sob* Oh, the humanity!