Johnny’s All American recently backfilled the space beloved Filipino restaurant Bad Saint left behind. Owner and Ohioan Branden Givand bills the bar as a fancy dive with margaritas, Sazeracs, burgers, beer-and-shot combos, DC Brau’s Old Time Lager, and Miller High Life. The laid-back setup adds morning hours this weekend with coffee, egg sandwiches, doughnuts, and a cherry blossom-themed brunch on Sunday, April 2.

Situated in Edgewood’s shiny new Bryant Street Market food hall, Alegria Bar builds on the success of 14th Street NW’s agave standby Tequila & Mezcal. Its 26-seat offshoot in Northeast showcases more than just margaritas and Mexican spirits, looping in Latin flavors like hibiscus, various fruits, and cacao to make an espresso martini. A draft and bottled beer list swings from Mexican brews like Pacifico to local favorites like Streetcar 82 Brewing Co. in Hyattsville, and a canned cocktail system lets patrons to take the party to-go. In lieu of traditional happy hour, a “martini hour” lets drinkers at the L-shaped setup sample dirty and pineapple martinis in mini portions. The same family also imported their popular Columbia Heights taco spot Taqueria Habanero to the food hall.

A Prohibition-era cocktail bar sauntered into Adams Morgan in March with smoked Old Fashioned service, time-intensive Chicago fizzes, and throwback nods to the Roaring ’20s. Code Red, the brainchild of AC Hotel GM Mark Namdar and his son, takes the lengthy space that housed Bom Korean Fried Chicken up until a year ago (and was Millie & Al’s before that). The surf-and-turf menu, listed as “Bill of Fare,” includes apps and small plates like wagyu beef sliders, crispy artichokes, charcuterie, and char-grilled prawns, with more to come.

The Owl Room went live this month in the old two-story home of Marvin. D.C. nightlife veterans Scott Herman and Ken Brobeck conceptualized the new club that pays homage to D.C.’s underground dance scene alongside Marvin’s returning co-owner Eric Hilton. The anticipated, DJ-driven replacement operates more like a bonafide music venue with a box office. A full-scale, ’70s-chic renovation dripping with disco balls and artsy odes to owls reimagines the space with a main dance floor and stage for live performances, plus a second-floor bar with an open-air patio.

This neon-lit hideaway made its debut in an alleyway off U Street NW earlier this year. The versatile venue features all-night happy hour on Thursdays, sports-watching parties, themed hip-hop nights, table reservations, and bottle service options.

The British-style gastropub for fancy sandwiches and snack plates unveiled its fourth D.C. location — and biggest bar yet — in Navy Yard in late February. Located a one-block walk from Nationals Park, Duke’s imports familiar favorites like its epic weekday happy hour (noon to 7 p.m.), when beers, wines, and cocktails cost $5-$9, bottomless brunch, multiple types of mules served in copper cups, beer-battered fish and chips, and of course, its essential burger that carries a registered trademark.

A cute Logan Circle corner formerly home to the Commodore got a new life in March as a stylish new gay bar outfitted with leather seating, an elegant marble bar, and artwork, serving a selection of snacks and cocktails. The Little Gay Pub’s founders Benjamin Gander, Dito Sevilla, and Dusty Martinez have a combined 30-year hospitality career working at places like Number Nine, Trade, and the bar under Floriana. Meanwhile, D.C.’s LGBTQ club scene grew this year with the arrival of subterranean DJ/dance hall Bunker in the old Tropicalia space on 14th and U Streets NW.

Michelin-starred chef Nicholas Stefanelli, who brought French restaurant Le Clou to the foot of the stylish new 200-room Morrow Hotel in December, just added a chic upstairs counterpart to enjoy Champagne, top-shelf tequila, spritzes, fancied-up pickleback shots, playful drinking snacks, and sushi. The sprawling rooftop venue near the Union Market district, with room for 75 outside and 60 inside, is outfitted with lounge-style couches, fire pits, heaters, and a wraparound bar with views of the Capitol to the Washington Monument.

Adults-only Swingers Crazy Golf teed off in Navy Yard in March. Situated a block away from Nationals Park, the ridiculously large, 23,000-square-foot entertainment venue boasts three bars, three golf courses, four eateries, multiple lounges, a merchandise shop, and 3-D photo booth. It’s the second D.C. location for the wacky, British-born brand that builds its 21-and-up bars around “crazy golf,” or the British term for miniature golf. Navy Yard’s Swingers takes its proximity to the water and the ballpark to heart, going for a British seaside resort-meets-sports pub.

D.C. sommelier and restaurateur Brent Kroll flipped his Maxwell Park wine bar in Navy Yard into a cool cocktail bar decked out in disco balls in late February. Bartenders and friends Justin Cara-Donna and Andrew Hurn, alums of D.C.’s award-winning cocktail den Silver Lyan, open with a breakfast-for-dinner cocktail theme. Think: a “flapjack” Old Fashioned (bourbon and mezcal with brown butter, maple, and buckwheat bitters) and “Everything Bagel Sazerac” punched up with sesame aquavit and chive gomme.