Inside Trump’s Big Night Out at Downtown Restaurant Joe’s | Eater DC

"“Surrounded by soaring columns and billowing drapes in a former bank, Joe’s is consistently busy and popular, with an epic happy hour starting at 2:30 p.m., lavish seafood towers, and year-round access to its namesake stone crab delicacy from Florida. Miami Beach-born Joe’s does draw a Republican crowd in D.C., as seen on a recent night when a suit-wearing patron was spotted with his blue tin of RFK Jr.-approved Zyn nicotine pouches out on the bar.” The decade-old downtown restaurant at 15th and H Streets recently hosted a dinner where the table ordered crab, shrimp, salad, steak, and dessert; “The food was phenomenal and the service was fantastic,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said." - Tierney Plumb