Where in Dupont or Logan can you watch every Chelsea match with the sound on, or count on trivia every Tuesday and Thursday? This fall both answers point to rooms people already know: the basement on 20th Street where Childe Harold used to be, and the two-level bar on 14th Street that was Bar Pilar.
The bar news in Dupont and Logan this season is about familiar addresses reopening as places with a weekly schedule. Each new tenant is betting on recurring nights: trivia, karaoke, Premier League matches, Eagles Sundays.
Four bar rooms with new tenants
Three of the four addresses below were already known as bars, and the fourth, a former theater, is on its way to becoming a pool hall and bar. All four are filling up under new names, at different speeds.
| Address | Known as | Now | Status heading into November |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1610 20th St NW | Childe Harold, then Step-Childe Harold | First Round Bar & Social | Open since mid-September |
| 1833 14th St NW | Bar Pilar | The Last Straw | Was aiming for Halloween weekend |
| 1423 P St NW | Logan Tavern | Petty Betty, a wine bar | Target window has passed with no opening announced |
| 1835 14th St NW | Source Theatre | Buffalo Billiards | Pushed to early 2027 |
One is already running nights for the neighborhood, one was aiming to open by Halloween weekend, and two are still behind construction paper.
First Round kept the basement and filled the calendar
Eater DC describes the 20th Street basement as the storied subterranean space where Bruce Springsteen and the Ramones performed when it was the saloon Childe Harold. In early September, PoPville reported that the Step-Childe Harold sign had been covered up. A few days later it announced the replacement: First Round Bar & Social, with an opening night on Saturday, September 12, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
On its own website, the bar says it was formerly Step-Childe Harold and calls itself a neighborhood bar with "a subtle Japanese influence." The food comes from its upstairs partner restaurants, Ko Japanese Dining and Sabai Thai Lao, and the drinks list runs from cocktails and sake to beer.
Eater lists trivia every Tuesday and Thursday, karaoke every Wednesday starting in October, plus matchmaking parties and late-night comedy shows. Happy hour runs from 5 to 7 p.m., with $10 pomegranate martinis and $6 Sapporos. According to the bar's site, Thursday trivia is hosted by Sporcle Events with rounds at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. That puts something on the calendar three nights a week before the comedy and matchmaking events are added.
The Last Straw is built around game days
According to PoPville, Bar Pilar closed after its Saturday service in mid-January 2026, which puts its last night on January 17.
The new tenant is The Last Straw, from Karl Keane, Brian Hillery and Donagh Gilhooly, the team behind Exiles on U Street and Easy Tiger Tavern in Adams Morgan, along with Leon Kent, formerly of Fadó, Red Hen and All-Purpose. PoPville's October 19 report says the big downstairs bar is untouched, the decor is heading in a sports-themed direction, and there is a smaller second bar upstairs.
The plan, in PoPville's account:
- Screens. Eight TVs plus a giant projector screen.
- Teams. A Chelsea bar for the English Premier League, with every match shown with sound, and an Eagles bar for the NFL. The college team is still undecided, and the owners are asking the neighborhood to pick it.
- Late nights. DJs upstairs on weekend nights.
- Kitchen. What the owners call "elevated bar food – simple, delicious and accessible," made in the ground-floor kitchen left over from Bar Pilar. The menu includes burgers, wings, salmon, steak frites and, since it is an Eagles bar, a cheesesteak.
- Taps. Guinness plus five more lines, likely including Magners and a Brau IPA. PoPville compares the lineup to Exiles.
As of October 19, the bar was aiming to open at the end of the month and hoped to make Halloween weekend, but no exact date had been set. By the time this post publishes, the bar's own channels will have the current answer, so check them before you plan a Sunday around it.
Taken together, First Round and The Last Straw give Dupont and Logan two rooms for football season that tell you ahead of time what's on.
Two more bar rooms, still waiting
At 1423 P Street NW, Logan Tavern has been closed since October 2025. In August, a notice to residents of The Hudson, the building where the space sits, reported by PoPville, announced Petty Betty, "a wine bar concept," for one side of the old tavern space. Remodeling was set to start on August 17, with completion expected in August or September 2026. That window has passed with no opening announced.
Next to The Last Straw, Buffalo Billiards is coming back in the former Source Theatre space at 1835 14th St NW. A PoPville update on October 9 said the project is still on, but combining two lots caused a major permitting delay. The new target is early 2027. When it opens, that stretch of 14th Street will have a sports bar and a pool hall side by side.
La Merna brings the same idea to a dining room
Even the fall's biggest restaurant opening on P Street fits the pattern. La Merna, at 2153 P St NW, is a Chicago tavern-style pizza and Italian restaurant and bar from husband-and-wife owners Bradley Shorten and Meg Schmitt. Eater DC set its formal opening for Thursday, August 13, after neighborhood previews. Tavern-cut pizza is a bar food by design, sliced into squares for a table to share.
Next door at 2155 P St NW, PoPville announced Saints Way Sandwich Shop in March as "coming 2026." It has not announced an opening yet, so it belongs in the same column as Petty Betty for now.
Daytime is getting more juice bars
Three smoothie and juice counters have opened or reopened within a few blocks since August:
- Pura Vida Miami opened on August 20 at 1443 P St NW, in the former Commissary space, as an all-day cafe serving smoothies, coffee, salads, bowls and breakfast.
- Tropical Smoothie Cafe was open at P Street and 22nd Street NW by September 24, serving smoothies, wraps, flatbreads and bowls.
- Pure Green closed its 1630 Connecticut Avenue NW location on August 16 and reopened by October 20 at 1605 Connecticut Avenue NW, the former Zeleno. It sells cold-pressed juices, smoothies and açaí bowls.
Pure Green's move also counts as a reuse. It reopened a short way down Connecticut Avenue in another business's former storefront.
A week in Dupont and Logan this November
Put the schedules together and the weekly calendar looks like this:
- Weekend mornings and afternoons. Chelsea matches with sound at The Last Straw, once it opens.
- Sundays. Eagles games on eight TVs and a projector at The Last Straw.
- Tuesdays and Thursdays. Trivia at First Round. Thursday rounds are at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.
- Wednesdays. Karaoke at First Round, a weekly night since October.
- Happy hour, 5 to 7 p.m. At First Round.
- Weekend late nights. DJs upstairs at The Last Straw.
Watch two more addresses into the new year. Petty Betty could open at 1423 P Street whenever construction wraps, and Buffalo Billiards is targeting early 2027 at 1835 14th Street.
If you're weighing a move within Dupont and Logan, or into one of the buildings near these corners, Team Koki can walk you through what's opening on your block and what's still under construction paper. Work With Us.
