It’s 98 degrees, and not in a Nick Lachey way. It’s hot as balls, and all you want to do is take a nice girl out from OK Cupid and maybe enjoy yourself enough to ponder whether or not there will be a second date.
DC is the ultimate summer swamp, but the influx of interns and grad students interning and interns with interns makes the dating scene ripe for the picking. But also the sweating. Hence, the Date Guru Herself, or a girl who writes about first dates and funny ladies and whatnot, is here to help you pick date spots with good air conditioning.
Nothing can make a date go sour like pouring sweat in a non sexy way over tuna tartare.
Below are the five best (sweat tested and approved) air conditioned spots to put yourself out there in July.
E Street Cinema
You can hold hands and watch an amazing indie movie starring my future husband Mark Duplass or the Intouchables (THE BEST MOVIE IVE EVER SEEN FOR SERIOUS) and eat yuppie theater food that’s magically delicious like sweet potato tater tots. There’s also a bar. Sit in the back.
Blue Duck Tavern
You are a fancy pants/skirt/skort/romper, so you better find good AC. Cool down with Blue Duck’s delicious ice creams. Hotels keep it nice and icy.
A Museum
Museums have to preserve paintings and your pits, simultaneously. Plus girls love guys who like art. Unanimously. The portrait gallery is near a few great restaurants — Jaleo, Zaytinya – which have both nice air conditioning and good food, and down the street from Clyde’s, which has air conditioning that only a large chain restaurant with big portions could achieve.
Smith Commons
Has delightful air conditioning. And it’s on H street, so it potentially has different wind patterns from the rest of the District.
The Brixton
It’s new, it’s British, and the air is blastin’. The roof isn’t air conditioned, so stay downstairs. Or bring a spray fan that you used to tote to soccer practice.
Round House Theatre Bethesda
The smash hit comedy about romantic errors and bad manners
When Suzanna sets up her best friend Max on a blind date with her husband’s co-worker Becky Shaw, she puts into motion a series of cataclysmic events that forever change all of their lives. Like the Victorian upstart Becky Sharp, this modern Becky is unsure, overdressed and socially ambitious. But she’s no shrinking violet, as the silkily cynical Max soon learns.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist and an Off-Broadway hit, Becky Shaw is a savvy, sharp comedy of romantic errors that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats guessing what will happen next.
