H Street’s Take On ‘Cheers’

While the H Street corridor has been inundated with bars in the past few years, some feel it has lacked a place “where everybody knows your name.” Duke Cross hopes to change that with his new jazz bar, Pap and Petey’s.

“I started the bar because I just kind of wanted a place that I would like to go, just to chill and relax with good company and with a neighborhood kind of feel,” Cross wrote in an e-mail. “Nothing pompous or plastic, just a cool spot that was hassle free.”

Cross has successfully achieved that goal with the small, welcoming bar.