D.C. restaurant owners are doubly angered with the D.C. Council after a committee voted yesterday to reject Mayor Vince Gray’s proposal to allow bars to stay open later and but endorse an increase in the alcohol excise tax.

A proposal for D.C. bars to stay open for an extra hour on weekdays and weekends was voted down by a D.C. Council committee this afternoon, though extended hours for liquor stores were approved.

Ahead of a hearing next week on a proposal to extend bar hours to 3 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. on weekends, D.C.’s restaurant lobby has come to a not-so-surprising conclusion: they really like the idea.