The Ugly Mug

723 8th St SE, Washington - 20003
159 reviews
American Pubs
(202) 547-8459

Great live entertainment and awesome food! (Really awesome food!) They boast a fully raised stage with lighting and sound, booths, tables, and 2 levels, a bar and seating on each, plus outdoor seating with clear dividers, heating, and cover. We saw an excellent comedy set hosted by K Bell. I had a Reuben and my friend had the burger and fries. Great portions, perfect and fresh.The show was very well produced and included six 10 minute comedy acts.The bar was attentive and fully stocked. Great location-- we even spotted a senator down the street leaving a dinner party!

Listen, let me save you some money. This food was ABSOLUTELY disgusting! I browsed through Uber Eats for an hour before deciding on this restaurant. I ordered the smoked chicken and gouda pizza for myself and margherita pizza for my son. I knew he wasn't going to like it the moment I opened the box, and I was right. He said it was nasty! I took those big disgusting tomatoes off and added cheese and pizza sauce that I already had to it then put it in the oven (see picture.) I'm so disappointed. I'm never ordering from this establishment again. Oh, and they didn't tape the pizza box shut. That's just common sense! I don't want someone tampering with my food!

Omg!!! What can I say in words? Amazing, Helpful, Caring, LovingCost Efficient, Great space to entertain! Ms. Monica Mr. Jeff management. Amazing.?????Ms. Zee, bartender, WONDERFULTHANKS TO YOU ALL. IM LOOKING Forward to Our next Meeting. I Love You All.?

Nice atmosphere good crowd and also a little karaoke that the drinks effectively blocks out!

We started from a previous spot but the DJ was late, so we wanted to go somewhere else where the DJ would maybe be on time. We arrived here and the energy was okay, wasn’t a heavy crowd, so we felt comfortable. The drinks were not happy hour drinks, were good, and it was karaoke night. We were a group of about 7 and we put our names on the list for karaoke. However, we noticed that the individuals that came in after us that signed up were regulars and were allowed to sing before us, even though we signed up before them. When we brought this to the DJ Big Mike’s attention, he was dismissive and told us that he prioritized regulars. Subsequently, our names were blatantly skipped and we never got our turn to sing. We chose to party with our community for fairness and safeness. Earlier in the evening, we experienced a traumatic event in this establishment where a patron fell down a flight of stairs, was hurt, and required an ambulance’s assistance. After this, we were expecting the atmosphere to level out and provide an inviting experience for us. However, this was ruined by DJ Big Mike.

Great people food is delicious and a nice chill spot

Ordered through a Delivery App I had credit on. Lol @ this place, so awful. First of all it's a bar thats running like 5 different ghosts out of the same kitchen. Ghosts chefs are usually great but this is scummy.Ordered expensive ($14 each) calzones that were not only burnt beyond edible, but had no flavor in general after I peeled off the burnt. Tomato was so pale almost translucent. Chesess were low quality,, no taste. I think it was ripped from like a frozen fast casual box. Poor cooks.The service was about as bad as could be. Slowest dude and complete inability to communicate. Why would you work in the service industry when it's readily apparent you don't want to be there or make an effort.Also, don't title your business "Brooklyn" when the product is about as antithetical from a Brooklyn calzone.I'd probably come back for beer if anything.

Great place to socialize & get drinks. Food is actually good too...

Amazing Experience From Derrick And Z!!

Absolutely awful. We came for a NFL playoff game, the owner was aware the amount of people showing up and only staffed 2 bartenders. How incompetent and illogical can you be? The wait for a beer, 1 beer, at the bar was minimum 20 minutes; if not longer. Don't come here, it's awful. Absolutely horrible.