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Washington D.C., Washington D.C.
A friendly bear bar and restaurant with a rooftop, near U Street.
Uproar is D.C.'s bear bar: three levels of laid-back drinking and small plates at 639 Florida Ave NW, on the edge of Shaw, with a rooftop deck that does a lot of the work on warm nights. It calls itself the friendly neighborhood bear bar, and the crowd backs that up, a mix of bears, cubs, and the men who love them, plus anyone after a relaxed alternative to the higher-energy dance rooms elsewhere in the city. The bar has picked up a string of Best Of LGBTQ D.C. nods from the Washington Blade. American bar food, from wings and sliders to mozzarella sticks, keeps the kitchen busy, and the calendar runs on themed nights and a Monday karaoke that reliably packs the room. It's the spot to start or settle a night in this corner of the city, less about the dance floor than about three floors of easy company.
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