Photographs by Adam Michelman
Vinoteca, a wine bar in Washington D.C.’s U Street corridor.
At several points in European history NBA Jerseys, the game of bocce found itself on the wrong side of the law, banned variously by popes, kings, and Holy Roman Emperors. Bocce in Europe is traditionally considered a man’s game, a convention that Americans can rightly be expected to ignore. For proof, visit Vinoteca on a Monday night, when competitors from DC Bocce’s “Premier League” do battle in teams that are gloriously coed. The sight of young Americans engrossed in a game typically associated with aging Europeans can be a bit disorienting. Snacks and wine help.
Vinoteca, U Street Corridor at 1940 11th Street NW. Bocce court open all hours; DC Bocce League every Monday night.
At Vinoteca, a wine bar in the U Street corridor of Washington, D.C.’s, the District’s popular bocce ball scene meets open-air snacking. Vinoteca itself is a perfectly fine wine bar, if a bit hushed and dimly lit, but the real action is happening around back: a clustered courtside next to a mock-rustic bocce ball lane made of tile and crushed oyster shells. Bocce — a game that can be described as shuffleboard with balls, or curling sans ice — is enjoying something of a youthful renaissance these days in Washington, spearheaded by the DC Bocce League NBA Jerseys, an organization with teams across the D.C. area and a membership roll that includes staffers, interns, pollsters, wonks and all manner of Washingtonian young professionals. They play mostly in outdoor parks and on lawns, but these sites have nothing on the backyard at Vinoteca NBA Jerseys, which could be a miniaturized village square in Torre del Greco, were it not for the condo developments towering above or the Rite Aid across the street. Such open-air surroundings are best accompanied by offerings from the outdoor grill: fresh barbecued monkfish in romesco, warmed olives and almonds, a bluefish tuna sandwich on rustic bread and assorted Mediterranean sausages. Perhaps best of all is the playful by-the-glass wine list, including a dry assyrtiko from Santorini, Greece, and a viognier from nearby Rappahannock Cellars, in Virginia.
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