And with this New Place, I am down to only 100 more new places to go reach my goal of seeing One New Place every day in 2018!

Fittingly, today’s New Place was a kind of celebration–a get-together with friends. And as I said before, I am partial, this year, to invitations that take me to New Places.  So although I would usually be a little curmudgeonly about going way across the city to meet friends, tonight I was happy to make this trip to Capital Hill to visit this neighborhood mainstay.

Mr. Henry’s has been in the neighborhood over 50 years, and is particularly a cornerstone of the DC jazz scene, perhaps most famously as providing a regular venue for Roberta Flack when she was an up and coming singer. As you may or may not be able to see (in the dark, underexposed picture below), a sign for her band “Roberta Flack Trio” still hangs above the mirror at the cash register/bar.

Of course, the problem with discovering this place is that now I wish I live closer so that I could go to Mr. Henry’s more often. . .