Vegas Lounge is a small live music bar on P Street in the Logan Circle neighbourhood that has been a fixture of the local music scene for years. The name suggests glitter; the reality is a narrow, dark room with a stage barely large enough for a four-piece band. This is its appeal. The booking leans toward local blues, soul, and jazz acts, and on a good night the intimacy makes for an experience that larger venues cannot replicate.
Check listings before visiting — it operates as a bar on quieter nights and a live music venue when there's a show. Cheap drinks, no pretension, the kind of place that is vanishing from American cities as rents rise.