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| - Al's Garage is a really weird place. The concept was obviously dive/biker bar. This place is so NOT a dive bar, and there are several things that make it glaringly obvious: the neatly spray-painted walls, the polite signs outside reminding patrons of city ordinances about where they can take alcohol, the shiny well-placed motorcycle rims above the bar, the presence of toilet paper in the bathrooms, the multiple flatscreen TVs, and--most of all--the fact that it's in The District. Seriously, now. This is a place for typical suburban shoppers to stop in for a drink and pretend like they got their hands a little bit dirty. This ain't a dive bar.
I actually think it's a great place to get a burger, because their food comes in large portions and it tastes pretty good. There's nothing fancy about it, and that's a good thing.
However, the bar's theme and its District location make for a sometimes uncomfortable mix of people. At lunch time you'll see families with young children, and then four feet away at the bar there will be a drunk guy who loudly uses the F-word in every sentence. So it's not a good place for families, but it's also not a good place to go if you want to pound a few beers and do some cussin' (if you have any amount of self-awareness, that is).
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