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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

A Cordon Bleu-trained chef from Corsica opened a basement tavern here in 1957, and the room he dug out went on to hold what was often cited as the largest beer list on earth. The DC Comedy Loft and Bier Baron Tavern at 1523 22nd Street NW, in the Baron Hotel building near Dupont Circle, began as the Brickskeller - Felix Coja's clever twist on rathskeller, the German word for a below-street tavern - opened with his wife Marie in the hotel they ran as the Marifex. The building itself dates to 1912...