Comments on: PoP Preview – H Street Country Club

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:07:05 +0000

it’s been done.

http://www.bushwickcountryclub.com/

sayin’

come on dc, step up your game!

By: billy

billy — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:24:35 +0000

we really need a family fun place in DC too, or very close to DC, that isn’t shady, nice go carts, video games, put put, with 2, 18 hole courses and batting cages. Nothing like that seems to exist, or if I am mistaken, help me out, bvk15@yahoo.com I would really like to know of a place like that. There are places with go carts, (near Dulles) east potomac golf course has put put, but not everything, we really need a good place like that. Hmm maybe thats an incentive for me to open a place up!

By: billy

billy — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:20:17 +0000

I am suprised no one has mentioned The Palace of Wonders, isn’t that place near the new H street country club? Have been wanting to go there too, really wish the area was metro accessible, really don’t need my car broken into again. Plus, cute girl in the rental club house!!! Oh they need to get one of those golf simulators where you can hit the ball at the screen, or at least a Wii with the new Tiger Woods 10. They need more golf!

By: billy

billy — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:09:47 +0000

I gotta say Comet Ping Pong is still going to kick ass,(though there pizza is way over priced for what it is) Free ping pong!!! come on!! if they had made it free, or at least free to play golf on some nights then it would be alright, I am sure I will go, just to see the place. Also heard they are to put 9 holes on the roof as well, hope that works out, but would not want to pay another $7 for that round. It really should have been free with dinner, or like $2. Thats an extra $14 for a date, and I can’t justify jsut going there and having dinner and playing only 9 holes, that will take a whole of what, 20 mins. Comet you can play for so long there, plus the now have BELLS bear straight from Kalamazoo, Michigan!!!

By: oldmanclem

oldmanclem — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:36:18 +0000

I agree with PoP; this place will be to busy to be fun. Which sucks.

(Also, congrats, PoP for being quoted in the Express blog log!)

By: Fonzy

Fonzy — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:30:01 +0000

@ Anon 4:55 — Tons of seating dude.

Didn’t momma teach you to not judge a book by its cover.

I bet you’re great at profiling your online dates, too.

By: frankly frank

frankly frank — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:37:52 +0000

I was at one of the mock services this past weekend — tried the food and drinks …

Must say I was VERY impressed with the whole vibe of the place — there is not one place like it in D.C. that has the same young and hip feel … I sat for dinner and tried appetizers, main and dessert and gotta say it was all very good, particularly the duck (Most expensive on the menu at $22) — but there are other less expensive options that are very good as well…

They will sell a truck load of appetizers and may need to clear out a table or two for space upstairs so people can get to the bar while waiting for mini-golf but overall — the place rocks and I wish them all the best.

Small but nice touch: the super air blasting hand dryers in the bathrooms which must be used and seen to be appreciated.

There will be some growing pains as in any business and they have Joe Englert’s experiences to fall back on when they need to change and adapt. The comment about the Rock N Roll hotel being next door was right on, there is a group of people there most nights looking for places to go … This place will be absolutely packed by the H St. crowd and local students looking for a great time …

By: RD

RD — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:23:09 +0000

Anon 4:55- agreed. Rocket Bar charges for pool and shuffleboard and they’re never packed. check that, they are huge and still have a line out the door on the weekend.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:39:34 +0000

Rock and Roll Hotel is a building away as well, which always is jam packed to the walls with all the national and local bands and djs they host. Be it a Wednesday (Holy Fuck tonight anyone?) or a Saturday (Au Revoir Simone people?), they’ll be hundreds of people just door steps away from the country club. That should drive business and exposure for sure.

H St NE is not like a single other neighborhood of DC and holds a closer to tie to places like Austin, Brooklyn, and New Orleans. Unique and original to say the least.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:37:05 +0000

I agree with the thread earlier,Is there any place in DC that one can’t get mugged ?.As a 10 year resident in the H street corridor,I think Joe has done a great job with the venues that he has opened.The corridor use to be an arm pit,to say the least.

Thanks for all the people that support H street