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Kramer Books and the attached Afterwords cafe in the back is one of the cornerstones of the Dupont Circle neighborhood. The independent bookstore seems to be most popular among the 20-30-something...
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Kramer Books and the attached Afterwords cafe in the back is one of the cornerstones of the Dupont Circle neighborhood. The independent bookstore seems to be most popular among the 20-30-something lobbyist/Hill crowd, but other folks come here too. If you're looking for discount books, go down the street to the discount bookstore right on the circle. Come here for the wide variety of literature and nonfiction, right down to the very obscure. You could spend hours in here reading off the shelves -- there's even a whole shelf of travel essays and diaries. Kramer's was doing the mix of book shopping and eating long before Border's and other big chains. Afterwords is not the kind of place that would draw you for the food alone, but the menu is decent, the enclosed sidewalk cafe has some atmosphere and entrées are inexpensive or moderately priced. Last I checked, they were open all night Fridays and Saturdays (but check ahead on this).
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Kramer has food as well as books, but I skipped the main dish and went straight for the desert. They are sweet and scrumptious. The frozen drinks are to die for! Amaretto and Bailey's Irish cream...
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Kramer has food as well as books, but I skipped the main dish and went straight for the desert. They are sweet and scrumptious. The frozen drinks are to die for! Amaretto and Bailey's Irish cream in a frozen milk shake form is just what the doctor ordered at 11p.m. after a hard day's work!
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This is a fun bookstore/restaurant combo in Dupont- less than a block from the metro. The restaurant is a great place for a snack after a night out in Dupont- the trick is to know that you have to...
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This is a fun bookstore/restaurant combo in Dupont- less than a block from the metro. The restaurant is a great place for a snack after a night out in Dupont- the trick is to know that you have to ask your server for a coin to get into the bathrooms!
It's also a nice place for for a full dinner. The dinner menu has a lot of variety with a lot of international influence. For desert, I recommend the brownie sundae. They also make pretty good coffee drinks.
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Kramer's is more than just a bookstore - it's a local hangout in DC that's near Dupont Circle. It's got a nice collection of books, is open late everyday and 24-hours on Friday and Saturday....
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Kramer's is more than just a bookstore - it's a local hangout in DC that's near Dupont Circle. It's got a nice collection of books, is open late everyday and 24-hours on Friday and Saturday.
Kramer's is fairly small so it feels very quaint. The bookstore is kind of split into two sections just by the nature of the space it's in. Because it's small, the collection of books is a bit smaller, but it also allows you to peruse a lot more titles in a lot of sections you probably wouldn't look through.
In the back of Kramer's is Afterwords, their coffee house serving beer, wine, breakfast, brunch, dinner, and desserts. There's live music overlooking the bookstore on the second level Wed-Sat night and free internet at the bar.
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DC has plenty of places where you can buy a good book, but not all of them have the atmosphere and intelligent staff that Kramer's does. They have a wide selection of popular and alternative books...
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DC has plenty of places where you can buy a good book, but not all of them have the atmosphere and intelligent staff that Kramer's does. They have a wide selection of popular and alternative books on hand, and it's hard to resist their displays.
I have often bought books as gifts here, and there are always new ones that seem to bubble up out of nowhere. This place is the kind of crowded cozy bookstore where you could lose hours of your life just browsing.
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Kate P.
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