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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, it sounds like you’re at the stage of your life where you want it to be an extension of your college days. Bethesda is not for you. Bethesda is for people who have jobs with responsibility that require them to be up early in the morning, plus family responsibilities that also require early mornings. Bethesda has never catered to the college-aged crowd that just wants to drink themselves into oblivion every weekend. [/quote]
I’m 52 and have lived and worked within a couple miles of Bethesda my whole life except for college, and back in my 20s it was fun and there was a late night scene. Some PPs have mentioned a few of the many bars there used to be - Tommy Joe’s, Nantucket Landing, Montgomery’s Grille, TBones, BlackFinn, Caddies, Uncle Jed’s, Chatters, Villain & Saint, Flanagan’s, many more I can’t recall. In the 90s/early 00s, Bethesda was doing a pretty good job catering to the slightly older than college-aged crowd that wants to drink every weekend. My company  of 250+ employees was mostly comprised of people like this, they moved into DC years ago and now plan to move into Virginia.[/quote]

I'm past the age where I go out late at night, but Caddie's and Tommy Joe's are still alive and well (Tommy Joe's is not in the old location, but in a much bigger location now). Some of the others may be also. There are also some newer late night spots on Cordell and that area whose names escape me because, again, that's not my scene anymore. If you want to party late at night, there are certainly venues to do so -- but by and large, the recent college graduates who want to party all the time choose Clarendon. And as a Bethesda resident, that's perfectly fine with me because Clarendon now has a ton of issues. It's possible to have late-night hangouts (as Bethesda does) without turning into a scene full of drunk 20-somethings who cause constant crime and noise.

I actually wonder if OP has ventured to the older part of downtown Bethesda (where Caddie's and Tommy Joe's are located), or only goes to the newer part of Bethesda. The older part of downtown Bethesda likely has what OP is looking for.

Some of the places you mentioned are kind of strange. Montgomery Grille was sleepy and definitely not a late night party place, and really it was just a truly mediocre restaurant all around. Villain and Saint was not in Bethesda 30 years ago -- it was in Bethesda for four years around 2015. So you're mixing up bars from lots of time periods and saying that they all existed 20-30 years ago.[/quote]

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