The historic Post Pub was left for dead in 2020. A new owner revived it but could never make it work amid the ongoing aftershocks of the pandemic.
Post Pub, pictured in November 2015, was for decades a gathering place for downtown workers. Jeremy Wladis was stopped at a Wawa somewhere in Delaware, where he was trying to polish off a turkey hoagie while explaining why his attempt to give the historic Post Pub in Washington a second life never really stood a chance.
“By the time I got there, it was very, very, very quiet,” Wladis said about his revitalized Post Pub, which he reopened in 2021. “We kept thinking, ‘It’s going to turn, it’s going to turn, it’s going to turn.’ And it just never turned.”. Not long after previous owner Bob Beaulieu pulled the plug on the L Street NW pub in 2020, Wladis came calling. A New York restaurateur who once pushed pies in D.C. via his Fuel Pizza outlets, Wladis thought he could revive the good name of Post Pub.
Wladis stripped the bar of its sticky, mid-century, VFW hall vibe. He ripped out the wall-to-wall carpeting, its fibers no doubt still reeking of Camels inhaled a generation ago. He ditched the wood-paneling and painted the walls white. He decluttered, allowing for a meditative white space between the mirrored beer signs, many of them holdovers from Beaulieu’s era.
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