On April 24, 2024, the MICHELIN Information introduced its very first Key accommodations in the USA — a model new distinction recognizing probably the most excellent accommodations within the nation. We’re thrilled to report that, in Washington D.C., seven accommodations earned a minimum of One Key.

And whereas accommodations within the capital have traditionally skewed in direction of the normal, our seven Key accommodations run the gamut of types. Among the many latest and hippest, the Eaton DC sports activities a boho aesthetic and a agency dedication to a progressive ethos — this lodge, set downtown on Okay Avenue, is a launchpad for progress, the place rotating artwork reveals fill the primary ground and activists and political teams make use of its radio station, screening room, and co-working house.

Representing the extra conventional luxurious accommodations, the Hay Adams has been an establishment — set in a monumental Italian Renaissance constructing simply throughout from the White Home — since 1928. Right here, the sensation is of old-world magnificence.

Between the Eaton and the Hay Adams, we discover the remainder of our Key accommodations someplace within the stylistic center. For waterfront views attempt the Pendry, with its modernist, Parisian-influenced aesthetic set on the Potomac within the metropolis’s Southwest Waterfront. Or head to Georgetown and the Rosewood, the place vistas from the rooftop bar overlook the C&O Canal.

Different highlights: the Dupont Circle Lodge, one of many solely accommodations privileged sufficient to arrange in Dupont Circle, with its subtle restaurant and a swanky cocktail bar. The Jefferson, an alternative choice downtown, has the Quill, an upscale cocktail bar and lounge in its historic constructing relationship again to 1923. On the Riggs, within the metropolis’s Penn Quarter, there’s each a fascinating cafe and a subterranean bar.

You’ll be able to hardly go flawed. Under, discover the map of each Key lodge in Washington D.C. And scroll right down to study extra every lodging.

The Jefferson – 2 Keys

Downtown

Because the capital metropolis of the USA it’s solely pure that Washington D.C. needs to be dwelling to a good variety of grand, historic luxurious accommodations. Not all of them are fairly as old-world as they appear, although. The Jefferson actually has all of the opulence and historic environment you’d anticipate from one of many authentic grand dames, and the truth that it’s principally the results of a 2009 renovation is neither right here nor there.

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Pendry Washington DC – The Wharf – 1 Key

Southwest Waterfront

Bodily, it’s not all that removed from Capitol Hill, however by way of its aesthetics and its environment, the Pendry Washington DC – The Wharf presents a totally totally different aspect of the nation’s capital. It’s clear from a look at its ultra-modern façade that that is no strange luxurious lodge, and its setting on the waterfront lends it an escapist facet as effectively. This, in fact, is the form of factor you’ll be able to anticipate from Pendry’s mum or dad firm, Montage, a lodge group that’s virtually synonymous with luxe-but-hip destination-driven resorts.

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Eaton DC – 1 Key

Downtown

This isn’t simply the hippest lodge in Washington, however one of the vital spectacular boutique accommodations in America, and it’s thanks largely to the truth that its founder, Katharine Lo, isn’t given to half-measures. She’s the Hong Kong–born, Yale-educated daughter of the chairman of the Langham group, so the fundamentals of high-end hospitality are second nature. What makes the Eaton particular is every thing else, from its unapologetically bohemian interiors to its much more unapologetically outspoken social-justice ethos — a rarity for D.C., this can be a lodge that feels free to put on its politics on its sleeve.

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Riggs Washington DC – 1 Key

Penn Quarter

It’s not every single day a Nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival financial institution constructing in Washington’s Penn Quarter district reopens as a lodge, particularly one as trendy as Riggs. It’s one other signal of a brand new period for the nation’s capital — there’s extra character right here than in all of D.C.’s accommodations circa 2000 put collectively. It begins with the well-preserved bones of the stately previous financial institution, however that is no mere restoration — they’ve taken liberties, utilizing the town’s historical past as their inspiration, and the end result provides a welcome notice of playfulness to the magnificence you anticipate from a Washington D.C. luxurious lodge.

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The Dupont Circle Lodge – 1 Key

Dupont Circle

It’s surrounded by embassies, and it’s a protected guess that fairly a couple of of its company are worldwide vacationers. As such they in all probability really feel kind of at dwelling within the Dupont’s modern, urbane interiors. Rooms lack for no consolation, they usually’re not simply trendy however purposeful as effectively, with full-sized work desks and Eames Administration chairs. And there’s an ultra-high-end lodge throughout the lodge: Degree 9 is a ground of monumental, lavish suites, served by its personal personal elevator.

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The Hay-Adams Lodge – 1 Key

The Mall

Although in the present day’s White Home is probably not the universally revered establishment that it was in much less partisan occasions, simply throughout the road is one other Washington D.C. fixture that’s misplaced none of its luster. The Hay-Adams Lodge is a 1928 Italian Renaissance monument, one whose privateness and discretion are near-legendary, and whose location, with the White Home and the Nationwide Mall as a backdrop, is one-of-a-kind. Fixed consideration has saved it wanting as opulent as may be, whereas fixed technological enhancements imply that, beneath its old-world magnificence, the Hay-Adams is a completely fashionable luxurious lodge.

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Rosewood Washington, D.C. – 2 Keys

Georgetown

For guests to Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood, high-end lodging have lengthy been offered by the same old suspects — specifically the 4 Seasons, the Ritz-Carlton, and some different dependable luxurious manufacturers. For an expertise that’s smaller in scale, however equally excessive in requirements, there’s a more recent choice: Rosewood Washington D.C., on the banks of the C&O Canal, whose 55 rooms, 12 suites, and 6 townhouses present the affect of contemporary boutique-hotel hospitality, tailored for a luxury-hotel clientele.

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