Ugly Mug

5/14/2008 2:30:59 AM, wednesday, may 14, 2008
One of many interesting neighborhood dives on the Hill. Lots of TVs for catching your game. Military types coming in to drink. Good happy hour specials. Decent beer list but nothing to seek out. I’d say the same about the mini-burgers.

4/17/2008 1:30:14 PM, thursday, april 17, 2008
Same as the others have said: good mini-burgers (discount price on Wednesdays), but the beer list isn’t anything special... DFH 90 minute, Sam Adams regular + 1 seasonal, SNPA, etc, about 12 common craft taps and then swill. The place fills up with frat boys going after the 32oz Miller Lite specials, so be warned, but if you make it there before 6 on a weekday night it shouldn’t be too bad, but don’t, I repeat, don’t go out of your way to visit this place if you’re visiting DC.

10/18/2007 3:35:59 PM, thursday, october 18, 2007
Good mini-burgers. Mediocre selection. Awful clientele. Plenty of smoking. Why bother when there’s much better places.

7/24/2006 10:12:15 AM, monday, july 24, 2006
Lots of taps, but very few have anything interesting on. Too many big international brands: Bud, Miller, Stella, and Guinness. And besides that the big US micros like Sierra Nevada and Sam Adams, so You are down to 2 taps with real micro brew on, which was a big disappointment for me. The prices though are resonable, and the service is OK. I’m glad I didn’t go out of my way to visit this place, I happened to pass by, and needed lunch. My pizza was fine, but I didn’t find the menu overwhelming in anyway. The interior is boring, and quite worn - it looks like a place You go to get drunk, and not much else. In my opinion this place is not worthy of being listed in the Places section of Ratebeer.

7/24/2005 2:59:49 PM, sunday, july 24, 2005
Made famous by mini-cheeseburgers, the full menu at Ugly Mug is a bar food dream. Also featured are small Maryland crabcakes and a deep-fried mozzarella cheese sandwich. A fair range of beers is offered on tap, including Magic Hat #9, Foggy Bottom, Smithwick’s, Harpoon and a house offering. The rest of the taps are generally macros, but you are bound to find one to serve as your trusty companion for the meal. Seating is limited and the bar can get deep, which complicates service in this small establishment. While you wait, watch one of the eight flatscreen televisions positioned around the bar and tuned to various sporting events (or the Simpsons). This bar fills a needed niche on Eighth Street SE, and it is located two blocks south of the Eastern Market Metro.