Fat Tuesday Goodness - So Much to do Around Town

Start of your day with Mardi Gras at La Tasca with an all day happy hour. This includes $3 glasses of sangria, draft beer and house wine; $13 pitchers of sangria; $12 bottles of wine; $5 margaritas; $2.50 select tapas. 722 7th Street, NW.



Later that night join Michel Richard for a live New Orleans Blues Band, The Johnny Artis Band. There will be Mardi Gras beads (the best baddest coolest beads from The Vieux Carre) and a taste of New Orleans on the menu.6:00-11:00pm. Central Michel Richard: 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. For reservations and information, call 202.626.0015.

If your slumin' it the Washington Post Express is throwing a Mardi Gras party at Mister Days, featuring live New Orleans-style R&B, funk and zydeco by the Junkyard Saints food and drink specials and an "endless supply of beads." There's no cover, and the festivities run from 5 to 9.

And end the night at Chi Cha Lounge on U Street which is offering a Latin Mardi Gras Party with $7 specialty cocktails (hurricanes, old fashioneds and key lime pie martinis) and DJs spinning '80s, electro, Top 40 remixes.