The newest bar on H Street Northeast offers an escape – from your device. At Rock Harper’s Hush Harbor, patrons check their phones at the door.

“We are D.C.'s first phone-free bar. So that means, if I can take your cell phone, put in his bag. I'll give it right back to you,” Harper said, holding out a Yondr pouch. The pouches snap shut, but you can still hold your device and feel it vibrating.

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Harper is a celebrity chef who won the third season of Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell's Kitchen” and owns Queen Mother’s fried chicken shop in Arlington. He got some interesting reactions to his idea for a phone-free bar in a city known for being plugged in.

“Most people were totally okay with it. Some people were, like, super skeptical

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