J. Paul's GeorgetownJ. Paul's is Washington's quintessential turn of the century American Dining Saloon. The original, located in historic Georgetown, sits in an historic building over 100 years old and has now been one of D.C.'s most popular watering holes for the last 20 years. The second J. Paul's opened in Baltimore's Inner Harbor in 1997 and brings the same "prohibition era" charm to the waterfront.

The J. Paul's bar in Georgetown is itself a 100 year old mahogany shotgun bar, built by the Brunswick Balke Coolander Company and was previously housed in a grand saloon in the Chicago stockyards. Many will swear over their scotch that Al Capone himself bellied up to that very bar. Antique brass elevator doors from New York's Waldorf Astoria frame the back dining room.

A few short blocks from the Potomac River, in the heart of fashionable Georgetown, the original J. Paul's has become an institution. Every day, politicians, journalists, artists, business people and Washington personalities share tables with students, tourists and ex-Pats in the nation's capital.