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Champions
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Category: Sports Bars [Edit]
Neighborhood: Georgetown1206 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington, DC 20050
(202) 965-5555
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- DJ
- Best Nights:
- Thu, Fri, Sat
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- Yes
8 reviews for Champions
Tucked down the alley in Georgetown: Champions......
We arrived here for a dinner...not a great choice. The wait staff here was great taking care of us. The appetizers were good especially the Crab Dip and Mozzarella Sticks. The Beers were ice cold and staff accommodated me with a clean glass for each bottle. The menu beyond apps were pretty limited. I had a Cesar Salad with chicken. It was barely edible. It was smothered in dressing and romaine was warm. Yes it sucked. The bathrooms was in pretty bad shape and we arrived way too early for them to look so bad. How can you be out of paper towels just after opening plus only cold water to wash your hands with sucks.
The score on this sports bar is a strike out.....
"THAT'S MY DRINK ASSHOLE"
Ah, such were the pleasantries tossed my way by one seemingly short-tempered feller after I inadvertently grabbed his drink at the bar. After offering him the most insincere of apologies for my most innocent of mistakes, we bantered back and forth ("You're a prick" "You have a pathetic, miserable life", etc) until I decided I was too old to be getting in bar fights and walked away. I think the testosterone elements within the just-reopened Champions (used to be BLUE GIN, fyi) were elevated for the following reason, each of which contributed to a generous (considering the circumstances) 3 star ranking:
1) Girls girls girls. You want em, Champion's has em. They are in all shapes and sizes, all shades of the spectrum, sorta friendly in general, and in plentiful supply.
2) Music. Fun, top 40, hip hop, grab one of the girls and dance sort of place. Based on my intro, it should come as no surprise that fellas are eager for the dear ol bump-in-grind; engage at your own peril.
3) Hot bartenders pouring free jager. Holy smokes! When's the last time you had a gorgeous waitress stand on a table in a tight "sexy referee" outfit and pour free jaeger down your throat! NEVER! She made a couple of rounds too; boy patrons were in heaven, girl patrons commenced eye rolling.
4) Live fights! Between drunk meat head patrons! People thrown out! D-bags clawing at each other on the ground, ripping their moose logo abercrombie polos and mussing up their spiked hair! It's like live UFC matches for assholes! Watch out, they just landed on your foot! Whoo! It also provides you a moment to man-up and protect your gal from the riff-raff. 'Let's get out of here baby, I want to take care of you...foot rub?"
Let me start off by saying if you don't like Georgetown bars or the "Georgetown Crowd" then why are you going to Georgetown. Some of the awful review from this place are from people who would not like any Georgetown bar. I am pretty open when I go out and enjoy Georgetown.
The first thing to note is that on Friday nights there is a cover of $5 to get in. This is disappointing (would have given it 4 stars otherwise). However, many bars charge cover on weekends (3rds, Old Glory etc) this is not however at that level yet. I say yet because it has potential. It was my first time at Champions so I will be back and re-review to see the progress.
The space is pretty well laid out an open on the first floor, a clear bar area and dance floor. On the second floor there is a place to sit by a second bar and a largish dance area by a third bar.
Yes the floor is beer soaked and the waitresses are dressed in Halloweenesq referee outfits, but it is a sports bar. There is memorabilia on the walls and it is called champions. You do not go to a sports bar looking for a classy night. They are open til 3 which is nice in DC, I believe they turned the lights on around 2:45 to start to clear out the place.
Their beers are pretty regular priced, $5 for a steel can (16oz), so your getting 4 beers for $15 with tax. Didn't have a mixed drink last night at champions.
Final Thoughts: I would go back to champions another weekend, I had a good time with my group of friends. If you do go and have never been don't go expecting the Ritz, go expecting a sports bar filled with people who are Georgetown Town People.
This place is for you if you are any assortment of the following:
-A douchebag
-A frat boy who is too much of a pansy to just man up and go to Hooters
-A lazy georgetown frat boy who doesn't have a car and/or doesn't leave georgetown
-An old skeezy gross man who hates his wife and gets his giggles from looking at young dumb girls' boobs
-A man about to be married who doesn't want to go to a strip bar (out of respect for your wife? you're so sweet)
This place isn't for you if:
-You're a woman and you aren't working there
-You don't want to see those "Stripper Referee" halloween costumes year-round (complete with hooker boots, platinum hair dye, fishnet tights, and cleavage!)
-You miss Blue Gin and/or think that Blue Gin is still around
-You're pretty pissed about the general quality of georgetown drinking establishments and the lack of diverse options
-You're a young-twenties female and are looking on craig's list at advertisements that say "Need money? Want to bartend? We will train for free, if you're hot"
Fin.
Located in an alley off of M Street and Wisconsin in Georgetown. There are parking spots all around the neighboring areas but I paid $15.00 for up to 10 hours in the parking lot behind Champions. I pay for convenience and considering I was at Champions for 4-5 hours, it's not bad.
I decided to head out to the Junkies Pre-game show on a beautiful sunny fall Sunday morning. Georgetown was full of people already at 11am. I was there early so I got to take some pictures for y'all of the layout of Champions.
The service was pretty good as the servers wore referee uniforms. I ordered a Coke and ice water. No iced tea is served. There are no specials for the football games. $4 per aluminum bottle of Miller Lite. Oh and the Miller Lite Girls were there too. Anyway, I ordered the Chicken Tenders platter with honey mustard and fries. The 3 large chicken tenders were hot and delicious and the fries were okay. The platter was $9.00.
Overall, it's a nice place. Pretty small with a downstairs main dining area with a bar, 2 projection tvs, and several other tvs around the area. Upstairs has a dining area but more of a bar section. Please see pictures. Also, the downstairs bathroom (unisex) was nubbs with a running toilet. I wouldn't suggest other than going number 1 there. There are separate restrooms upstairs which are larger with urinals and 2 stalls.
I'm going to give this 4 stars only because it wasn't traditional "Georgetown" douchebags when I was there Saturday. I can say that I enjoyed my evening there, which is probably a bit biased cause I was a ton of us and with the right people any place can be fun. BUT! I met a whole other group of outgoing, friendly people who were there for a birthday and that definitely added to the appeal. I'm a social guys so having two big groups integrate is always good stuff. I'll have to go back to see if that happens again. The sheer strength of the drinks helped too. Wow, if you had lit a match I would have blow fireballs.
I hesitate to say this cause I'm sure once I do some genius will start dragging his boys there and ruin it for everyone but there were tons of single women! And everyone was dancing! The dj was good, the bartenders were attentive and there was space. I used to hate Blue Gin because of the crowds and the other DC Douchebags we deal with (euro trash) but can't say that's the case here.
As far as the bartenders, who cares. Great, they're wearing skimpy clothes. Honestly, there were too many other friendly people (guys and girls) for me to be focusing on a bartender.
I legitimately had a good time and I'll go back, probably this weekend, to see if my opinion stays the same.
Champions gets two stars from me because it probably didn't suck as much the night I went as it usually does. I went for a party being thrown upstairs, so I still had to weave through the downstairs to get to where I wanted to be. Follow me on my journey from entrance to exit.
First impression when entering the door: vinyl banners advertising sh!tty American beer... check. The ground floor: what a dank, dingy sh!thole... and more Miller Lite banners. Even as sports bars, you could do better than this. Let's ascend the stairs for the party: hmm, I'm sloshing through a carpet soaked with beer... Well, it looks like this bhangra party drove off all the g-town d-bags this place seems to be infamous for... Thanks for the shove, bus boy. I don't know why your bar never thought to design a clear path for you so that you don't have to shove people around all night to bus glasses... Whoa, major boobage and a bottle opener sticking out of the top of that waitress dressed as a skanky referee! How do they look themselves in the mirror every day? Hmm, skanky but nice referee waitress let me drink quite a bit. On to the bathroom: utter filth. DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING. Let my Kenneth Cole's sit in a UV sterilizer for a week when I get home. Home... why did I ever leave that place to come here?
This place is awful.
Let's list the reasons:
1. We witnessed 3 fights inside and outside of the bar - the staff do nothing about it. This type of atmosphere sucks.
2. They claim to be open until 3 yet some angry woman manager cut the music at 230. Why.
3. Clientele had no class.
Never again.
