Not really a sports bar after 6pm

I went to Public for the first time tonight after its make-over from Club Five. Nice place but at 10pm the music starts and the sports bar atmosphere ends because the DJ turns the game audio off. The DJ plays wack ass tunes which have been over played the last 10 years. Lots of TV would be a good place to watch the early games of college football the food was good except for the hot wings. We order spicy wings but they were not even mildly sauced. The lines start around 10pm with a cover charge. Long lines and overly dressed poisers waiting to listen to bad music. Either your a sports or not. The space is really to small to be a dance club and nobody here dances its to crowd. SAVE YOUR MONEY. BRING BACK CLUB FIVE the Public BLOWS

Should have a no-star rating for places like this

TWENTY DOLLARS FOR YEUNGLING at a supposed dive bar? Where does the $ go? Certainly not on cleaning the bathroom or reupholstering the spine-cracking furniture. That is my only, but HUGE, complaint. The staff is civil, the menu and assortment of drinks slightly exceeding expectations, but the prices are shocking. We foolishly assumed that drink prices would match the ambiance at the Post Pub and were socked in the wallet for thinking so. Beware.

True to tradition

This is a work day bar. It provides generous food, unpretentious surroundings, media overkill and competent service. People come for predictable food (i.e. burgers with more fries than you should eat). There’s a moderate selection of beer for refreshment, representative wine for the thoughtful and solid booze for the committed. You sit with working class folks, as conversational as DC folks are (this is not Chicago). The help gives as it gets. If you are gracious, so are they. Imagine that. My workmates and I find the Post Pub most adequate for a work day lunch and/or happy hour. We are greeted, seated and served well. Repeatedly. No, you will not see Mr. Tony in a booth. But you will see the same folks coming back often.

Wish I could rate it lower

I'll start out by saying that I love dive bars - cheap drinks, cheap food, non-pretentious servers, good music (usually). This place lives up to none of that: surly staff, expensive drinks and way too expensive indigestion-inducing food. Take Halloween night for example: the surly waiter spilled drinks on two of us, and then complained not only to his buddies two feet away form me when I was waiting on the bathroom, but OPENLY to the table when we tipped him below 15%. If you have the ambiance of a dive bar, which you do: dark lighting, 70's decorum, small bathrooms; please do one of the following: charge lower prices for drinks, put better music in the place, or class up your food.