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The Dremo never dies, so long as people long to play flip-cup and watch weird movies in an eclectic taphouse -- assuming there's money for it. Home of the Night of 101 Elvises and the much-missed Psychotronic film series, Dr. Dremo's is looking at a new home. According to an email from manager Andrew Stewart, the backers behind the former Arlington landmark seek to raise $200,000 to build out a location in Clarendon. It's unclear whether the good doctor has found a venue in Clarendon or simply means to keep with the original ambition to find a new home there. Any angel investors out there with a love for Dremo's Redneck Ale? The bar needs $10K minimum, to be paid back over 2 years for 10% annual percentage rate. For my part, I can pledge to spend that much in the form of a tab over 2 years.
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I wish they were coming to DC.
That would be nice. Although I'm always confused by people's aversion to making the trip to Arlington...especially Rosslyn or Clarendon. These same people have absolutely no problem trekking out to H St, an area where cabs are scarce and there is zero metro access. Arlington, by contrast, is such a close drive and an even closer Metro ride.
While places like Dremo's, Murky Coffee & Orpheus Records have all seen their demise this past year, you can still catch some amazing live music Galaxy Hut or IOTA (one of the best venues in the area, hands down), grab a beer at one of the other bars on the street, check out the open mic comedy around the corner, enjoy the best wings anywhere in the area, go record shopping at CD Celler. (Oh and there's an Apple Store ;)
But yeah, DC is still better.
evanseesred: you're making a big assumption RE: h street v. arlington and one being closer to people than the other. that might be true if you're sitting in ward 3 reading this, but there are a lot of us out there who happen to live in the northeast quadrant of this city, know how to read a bus schedule, and find it rather easy to get to and from h street any time of day.
If Dremo (or Bardo for that matter) wanted to locate in DC, don't you think they would have located there in the first place? The space is big. I imagine something comparable in DC, assuming you could find one, would be prohibitively expensive. Same reason why you'll never have a Wegmans downtown.
I don't. Dremo's is an Arlington thing. People keep complaining about the "suburbs" (which doesn't really define Arlington) having no character and here you go wanting to steal some of that "no culture/identity" for the District. Arlington FTW.
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society is at the Warehouse Theater every Tuesday night at 8.
Someone PLEASE get behind this...such a great Arlington bar, now gone the way of Orleans House and others. This bar was actually the best of any DC dive/tons of beers on tap bar, hands down. Loved how enormous it was. So sad they tore the space down only to build....oh right, no one's building now so it's an empty lot.
I liked Dremo, but even so it was a pale shadow of the Bardo of old. Bardo was one of the places that felt different in the DC area, even as (like most places in Clarendon) it was overly populated by the frat boy crowd. But since TGIFridays and Ruby Tuesdays are what Virginia *really* wants for nightlife, Bardo never had a chance of surviving, and neither really did Dremo. A new place in Clarendon, a neighborhood filled with places like the Cheesecake Factory and Pottery Barn? No chance. Iota and Galaxy Hut will be gone soon, replaced by Tony Roma's and an Applebees.
There's no place on H big enough for Dremo. Maybe someplace up Georgia Ave?
Yeah, I might chip in - if they were looking in DC. I'm not particularly interested in investing in a red state.
So, uh.. how do we contact him? Just drop the money in an envelope under the rubble where it used to stand?
I was planning on guessing his email address and paypalling it. Seriously, though, anyone have contact info?
Andrew supposedly used to steal from customers by adding an extra dollar here and there to credit card tips..especially when he thought they were too low. Eventually the credit card companies received enough complaints and made him stop. At the time he was just the owner's son come home to tend bar. Guess he'll be running the show now. Sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime. Invest!
Here's the piece I did for WBJ - includes contact info for Andrew, for those asking. They're reportedly close to a signing a lease in Clarendon.
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/top_shelf/2009/11/more_on_the_return_of_dr_dremos.html