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The Brickskeller (officially The Brickskeller Dining House and Down Home Saloon) was a tavern in Washington, D.C., located near Dupont Circle across from Rock Creek Park and on the edge of Georgetown, in the Marifex Hotel (now the Brickskeller Inn) building. It had over 1,200 choices of bottled beer in the coolers, over a dozen keg beers, and real ale in cask. The Brickskeller was the first restaurant ever to offer customers a beer list to introduce many thousands of beers to the city, the country and the continent. Felix Coja, a young man from the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, along with his bride Marie joined the many Corsican natives who emigrated to the Americas after World War I. Coja, a Cordon Bleu-trained Master French chef, found work in Washington, D.C., at the Blackstone Hotel on 17th Street NW. Following successful years at the Blackstone, the couple acquired The Robert Peter Inn several blocks away near 22nd and P Street NW, and changed the name to The Marifex Hotel. They established the Brickskeller restaurant in 1957 as a rathskeller-type eatery. In the 1960s, their son Maurice and his wife June developed the property extensively. In 1982, their daughter Diane and her husband, former bartender Dave Alexander, took over the daily operations. On December 18, 2010, the Alexanders closed the Brickskeller after selling the building. They moved all tastings and events to their new restaurant, RFD Washington at 810 7th Street NW. (en) |
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The Brickskeller (officially The Brickskeller Dining House and Down Home Saloon) was a tavern in Washington, D.C., located near Dupont Circle across from Rock Creek Park and on the edge of Georgetown, in the Marifex Hotel (now the Brickskeller Inn) building. It had over 1,200 choices of bottled beer in the coolers, over a dozen keg beers, and real ale in cask. The Brickskeller was the first restaurant ever to offer customers a beer list to introduce many thousands of beers to the city, the country and the continent. (en) |
