Bethesda’s First and Only High-Rise Rooftop Bar Opens Tonight

As of currently, diners can see Bethesda from a entire new perspective with the arrival of Hip Flask, a resort rooftop bar perched atop the new 12-story Marriott Bethesda Downtown at Marriott HQ. Situated following to Bethesda’s Metro station, Marriott plants a new variety of flag with Hip Flask (7707 Woodmont Avenue), declaring the watering hole as Bethesda’s “first and only substantial-increase rooftop bar.”

In a natural way, views are paramount: flooring-to-ceiling windows appear out across the Bethesda skyline, and there is a huge terrace for out of doors consuming and dining in the sky. Within, the roomy interiors are drenched in a deep blue intended to evoke the Potomac River (that blue hue appears in cocktails too, like a French 75). Non-resort friends can zip appropriate up to Hip Flask in a independent elevator in the lobby.

Marriott Bethesda Downtown

Its identify, Hip Flask, comes to everyday living throughout its speakeasy-styled cocktail listing. For the “Tiger Vogue” cocktail, bartenders shake up Makers 46, Tiger Nut, Chicory, and Orange 20, and then stir the consume into a flask and disguise it inside of of a ebook.

Other cocktails include things like “Daisy’s Problem,” made with Aviation gin, Lillet, chamomile, and vegan foam, or a “Marmalade Skies” with Haku vodka, white peach juice, yuzu, and rosé.

Marriott Bethesda Downtown

Marriott Bethesda Downtown

The draft checklist prioritizes Maryland beers from breweries like Calvert Brewing, Waredaca Brewing Corporation, Manor Hill Brewing, Cushwa Brewing Co., Hysteria Brewing Business, and Peabody Heights. Non-alcoholic cocktail selections contain a consume whipped up with espresso, vanilla, cinnamon, and Fever Tree tonic.

Hip Flask’s food menu is meant to be shared, like hummus tapenade, crab dip, pimento cheese deviled eggs, and a meat and cheese board that pulls products and solutions from Georgetown’s Stachowski Market.

Hip Flask opens Tuesday, Might 3, at 5 p.m. Several hours are 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., Tuesday by Thursday, and 5 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. The 21-and-up bar is first come, very first served.

Marriott Bethesda Downtown

Marriott Bethesda Downtown at Marriott HQ opened in March, with govt chef Dupree Braswell guiding three various dining places inside the hotel. In addition to Hip Flask and the Greatroom foyer bar, the ground ground flagship cafe Seventh State is created close to a customized bronze wood-fired oven (a person of two discovered in Marriott lodges in North The us).

The oven is put to operate to develop Italian panuozzo, a folded sandwich produced with pizza dough. The menu prioritizes Maryland generate and substances, and floor-to-ceiling retractable glass partitions will open up to out of doors seating on good days.