March 2004 Dirt Cheap Eats

It's hard to find beer this cheap. Monday through Friday from 3 to 7, it's $1 for pints of Miller Lite or Coors Light and $2.50 for 14 other beers on tap, including Guinness and Sierra Nevada.

There are three bars to choose from. The first-level bar, with a huge fish tank built into the wall, is classy with hanging lanterns and mosaic-tiled tabletops. An outdoor stairwell leads to a spacious upstairs bar--bands play at night on a small stage--and it's more like Dewey Beach-meets-neighborhood-coffeehouse. The cement floor isn't pretty, but the carpeted area with velvet couches is a swank place to share half-price appetizers, including barbecue chicken wings and vegetable quesadillas (both about $4). Tables line the windows in the other upstairs bar, which overlooks a Kentlands Village corner. It's open-air in the summer.