The Rooftop at the Graham — Restaurant in Washington

We visited this bar twice. Our first visit was in late November 2024, and the cocktails were very good. (We had a Summer, Evening, and Upper, a Rooftop Express, and a Moscow Mule; all of them were solid.) We returned on a Monday about ten days ago, and the cocktails were, well, simply atrocious. I opened with one of the cocktails we had enjoyed the first time, a Rooftop Express; I can't think of another way to descibe its flavor but to say that it tasted like saccharine cough medicine. My spouse opened with a leblon caipirinha, as he had enjoyed a very good one at another bar the previous evening. The version at the Graham rooftop was little more than overly sweet juice. I just gave up after one cocktail, but my spouse ordered a second one, the Signature Margarita, in hopes that our experiences thus far had been merely a fluke. Never had we tried a margarita that tasted like this; not only did it not taste like anything remotely close to a margarita, but it did not taste good at all. If you botch a cocktail such as a Margarita, then I'm afraid you're all but hopeless. To our chagrin, we won't come back again. The views are nice, but the cocktails should be at least adequate. (The cocktails are not precisely inexpensive, and given that they automatically charge a 22% surplus, there is no way to even signal, via the tip, how unpleasant the...

Beautiful place, great food, not so great service. We came here on recommendation and I’m not sure if it was an off night but I wasn’t impressed. The location and the look are very nice. I absolutely love the aesthetic. The men who work valet are so nice and amazing at their job. HUGE props to them for helping with parking. I thought I was going to miss my reservation but they made sure that didn’t happen. We got to the rooftop and were immediately greeted by the lovely hostess and she brought us to our table. Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. Our server came over ONCE to take our drink order and then we never saw her again. We had to keep getting the attention of the other servers so we could order food and more than one drink. The food was great and so were the drinks. Unfortunately, the terrible service of our specific server left me with a bad taste in my mouth. We had to wait way longer than we should have to order food and to get the check. Neither of us wanted to stay there for that long. Definitely going to come back again to see if it was an off night though because I loved the...

This is one of the worst decisions we made in choosing a place to see the fireworks for July 4th! Never again!! Family of 4 adults came at 7.30pm. Had prepaid $85 per person. Noticed people already at the venue. Few seats were marked reserved. There was absolutely NO place to sit. So we thought since we had paid $85 per person we thought it was meant for us. But No! A guy came and told us to get off the seats as it was reserved!! Every 5 minutes he would watch us and not let us sit in those reserved seats!! Wow. And they had no other chairs to sit on!!

Since the area was covered with canopy there is limited visibility to see fireworks everywhere except a small area where about 8 people can see the full sky!! This is NOT what we expected for $85 per person!! Would not recommend to anyone coming here. The staff were trying to make people not leave the area as they were going to lose food and drink money!!...