Satellite Room sits right behind 9:30 Club

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The go-to spot for pre-and post-9:30 Club concert drinks is serving up its last sips on New Years Eve: Satellite Room announced Tuesday that it will be closing at the end of the year.

In a tweet, the bar and restaurant said its lease is ending.

https://twitter.com/Satelliteroomdc/status/1206983112116318211

Ian and Eric Hilton—also behind Shaw spots The Brixton, El Rey, and American Ice Company—opened Satellite Room in 2012. Its spot right behind the 9:30 Club made it an easy spot for drinks before and after concerts—as did its killer Tuesday happy hour deal. Upon its opening, the diner-style space served up thick burgers (including some named after famous Washingtonians), tacos, pancakes, and—most famously—boozy milkshakes and tater tots. (Our erstwhile restroom critic called the establishment’s offerings “thoughtful, if a little austere.”)

As Popville noted last month, the milkshakes and tots had made way for a modest menu of pies from Andy’s Pizza. The Virginia-based pizzeria will soon open its own D.C. shop around the corner at another shuttering Hilton brothers property: Gaslight Tavern. It’ll share the space with the brothers’ new bar Echo Park.

The Hilton Brothers have other bars and restaurants all over D.C., and the duo told Arlington magazine earlier this year that they’ve now got their sights set on Northern Virginia. They’ve opened up French bistro Parc de Ville in Fairfax, and a second outpost of El Rey in Ballston is up next.

Ian Hilton and representatives for Satellite Room did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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