January 11, 2006
There's Something About Stoney's
By new DCist Food and Drink Contributor April Fulton
Mmmm, Stoney Burgers. The mere mention of these large, luscious, beef patties served on a soft roll with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo and extra pickles -- if you ask nicely -- is enough to make Homer Simpson drool. Stoney’s burgers, cheap beer, “super grilled cheese” and its unabashedly ugly dark-wood-panel décor have fueled many a lunch or long evening for government workers, seniors, janitors, hipsters, and everyone in between.
People come here for the atmosphere and the food, which is more than you can say about most dives. It doesn’t have a nonsmoking section, a website, an ATM, a clean toilet, or a credit card machine. And you know what? It doesn’t matter. It has attitude. So, when word broke over the summer that the 37-year-old institution would be kicked out of its Logan Circle location to make way for swanky new condos, food lovers and late-night carousers cried into their beers.
Well, hang on, Stoney’s fans. Owner Tony Harris says he hopes to open a new place nearby where Stoney's burgers will rise again.
“Just when Logan Circle is coming around to be something neat, we’ve got to go,” Harris lamented. He promises to find a new place that’s not too nice, like some other dives we know that have lost their way in the plate-glass window, shiny steel, too-much-sunlight sense.
“We’ll have some problems with the bathrooms and the plumbing, I’m sure,” he said with a laugh.
So if you want to get a Stoney’s fix to tide you over the three months or so Harris says that D.C. will be without, come out for happy hour/last-night party starting at 5:55 p.m. on Friday, January 13. There will be $5 food-and-drink specials and the party will last until the inventory is gone -- or until bartender Robin Smith collapses.
If you’re really jonesing for Stoney's info, send an email to stoneysdc@gmail.com to be among the first to find out where the new Stoney’s will pop up.
Stoney’s Bar and Grill
1307 L Street NW
202-347-9163
Photo by flickr user furcafe.
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This really pisses me off. The only good hole-in-the-wall bar that isn't meant for hipsters will be no more. I can't understand how a place that has been around 5 decades can be gone so quickly. I know around the city this is happening (no more so than Adams Morgan), but I don't have to like it.
Damn! Gonna miss that $5 friday. Best damn steak sammitch in town.
I hope they move to 9th Street, but giving the problems Vegetate has had getting a liquor license (thank you churches full of doubleparking suburban parishoners!), and the cost of real estate, it doesn't look good.
Their best bet is probably H Street NE. The guy who runs Lucky Bar is opening a half dozen bars there, so Stoneys would fit right in. Pick any nail salon or sneaker place and buy it. Then I could get my $4 fish sammitch at Horace & Dickies AND my bigass Stoneys steak sammitch.
I hope it stays in the general Logan area.
As for 9th Street. NO way. The church there does not want anything that is commerical and will take up parking spaces on Sundays. Have to love a church that doesn't want to be a good neigbor.
NE is probably the best choice, but I don't like it. Its the best local bar in the Thomas/Logan Circle community (Sorry Logan Tavern).
I know where the new location will be -- but I'm not telling!
11th street in Columbia Heights could use a place like Stoney's!
I still love CHC and Wonderland. Though Stoney's would be a nice addition to some of this empty space.
I do too, and it will shock and surprise most of you.
Stoney's used to be a great hang out, but now the place is crusty as hell! Knowing they were going to close, its as if they stopped cleaning the place--including the silverware and cups!! This place is super dirty and smells like a combination of 30 years of smoke and ass.
Would have to agree with J, but that still doesn't prevent me from stopping in for a beer. The smell is masked by the smoke and a beer bottle doesn't need to be cleaned.
The super grilled cheese is what kept me salivating and coming back for more. Best thing about having to work at 14th and L.
We'll they've moved and how? did they ever survive @ the previous location (never went to it) for real. lol they'll learn the hard way and be but a quick BLEEP on ole Dupont/Logan's
L-O-N-G list of Str8 business that are here today and gone tomorrow...you'de think that in 2007 they'd a learned. But NO the NEW Stoney's is typically ASSUMin' that if ya serve up a buncha nothin'on a B-I-G plate putta green leaf on it charge a (so funny you lol) outrageous fee; that the queers'll come. (cause ya know that in Dupont/Logan if they dont ya aint gonna make it.(nawww it don't matta that there are more than ever in history badly dressed gurlz with skin tight lycra halta's/tops/shorts and pants
lusciously wrapping all of there fat cells and proudly jigglin' it around for ALL ta see. Da queers still gotta come) Stoney's food is never hot enuff they serve it up luke warm, breads hard, minoot portions and yup overpriced.
On a positive note...least they're consist.
Consistantly putting LESS and LESS and LESS on my plate; next thing you know they'll serve ya 3 french fries instead of 6 and put a 1/4 tomato slice on your burger instead of a 1/2 of one.
I'M THRU W/ EM.
OMG THT IZ TEH SUX.
Never had a problem with the steak sammitch, but if they're chinzing, it's probably because you can't keep selling $6 burgers when your tax rate quadruples. Ask the Alis at Ben's Chili Bowl: 2005 taxes = $300k, 2006 taxes = $1.2 mil.
At this rate, cheap eats in DC will be deader than last xmas. Only the chains will be able to afford to keep shop.