How to Make a Reservation at the Red Porch in Nationals Park
As of this blog post, there will be exactly 2 places on the internet where you can find out how to make a reservation at the Red Porch Restaurant in Nationals Park.
For those who are unfamiliar, the Red Porch is a restaurant in center field at Nationals Park where you can sit outside with a pretty good view of the game, and have a waiter bring you your food and drinks, for free, rather than sitting in the nosebleeds and having to leave your seat to get concessions. It’s common practice to buy the cheapest tickets available and then simply go to the Red Porch, or it’s sister, the Red Loft bar on the 2nd level.
Every time I go to the Red Porch, the hostess asks if I have a reservation, which I never do, but I have always been able to get seated at a table no later than the 3rd inning, and only had to wait that long once. However, since tomorrow is Memorial Day and the Phillies are in town, the ballpark is likely to be packed, so I wanted to make a reservation ahead of time. Since they always ask, I assumed the reservation number would be easy to find. I was very wrong.
I finally did find the number. Thanks to @cnichols14, who posted a picture on twitter over a year ago with the number attached. Perhaps at that time the number was published more widely. You can see the picture here, though there isn’t much to see.
Thanks to that picture, I finally found the reservation number 202-640-7947. Unfortunately, they are only open from 9-5 on Monday through Friday. Interestingly, that means that they are almost never open during or within two hours of an actual game. Sadly, since it’s Sunday, I couldn’t make my reservation today, but I do now know how. Will they open at 9 on Memorial Day so that I can still make my reservation? Probably not, but I will try.
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