Mostly seafood, offering diners choice of live lobsters. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was served up a giant lobster well over 10 lbs during his visit. They had a wonderful she-crab bisque.
My high school bud was a bartender there so I stopped by often after work. Watched how lobbyists liquored up our representatives. Actually had a brief chat with Art Buchwald at one of the bars while he was waiting for a table. A Special Forces major gave me a capsule lesson on Malthus. An impromptu reunion dinner of ten classmates revealed that only two of us worked in the private sector, the other eight worked for various government agencies. But that's Washington DC for you.
LOL! No, I was never there; but it sounds like it was fun.
Were you ever at ‘El Bodegon’? It was a Spanish restaurant with Flamenco (the sexiest dancing in the world). The waiters were hilarious, wielding the porron expertly; and the restaurant was rumored to have been a favorite ‘spook’ hangout, back in the day.
It’s one of the great memories of my very young life, and the first time I ever had paella with frog-legs (I thought they were chicken):
http://www.dcflamenco.com/dcflamenco/bodegon.html