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

And whereas lodges within the capital have traditionally skewed in direction of the standard, our seven Key lodges 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 Ok Road, 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 area.

Representing the extra conventional luxurious lodges, 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 lodges 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 Resort, one of many solely lodges 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 may hardly go fallacious. Beneath, discover the map of each Key lodge in Washington D.C. And scroll right down to be taught 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 lodges. 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 unique grand dames, and the truth that it’s largely 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 when it comes to its aesthetics and its environment, the Pendry Washington DC – The Wharf presents a totally completely different facet of the nation’s capital. It’s clear from a look at its ultra-modern façade that that is no peculiar luxurious lodge, and its setting on the waterfront lends it an escapist side as properly. This, after all, is the type of factor you may anticipate from Pendry’s father or mother 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 probably the most spectacular boutique lodges 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 little thing else, from its unapologetically bohemian interiors to its much more unapologetically outspoken social-justice ethos — a rarity for D.C., it is 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 each 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 lodges 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 Resort – 1 Key

Dupont Circle

It’s surrounded by embassies, and it’s a secure wager that fairly just a few of its visitors are worldwide vacationers. As such they in all probability really feel kind of at dwelling within the Dupont’s up to date, urbane interiors. Rooms lack for no consolation, they usually’re not simply trendy however purposeful as properly, with full-sized work desks and Eames Administration chairs. And there’s an ultra-high-end lodge inside the lodge: Degree 9 is a ground of monumental, lavish suites, served by its personal non-public elevator.

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The Hay-Adams Resort – 1 Key

The Mall

Although immediately’s White Home might not be the universally revered establishment that it was in much less partisan instances, simply throughout the road is one other Washington D.C. fixture that’s misplaced none of its luster. The Hay-Adams Resort 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 could be, whereas fixed technological enhancements imply that, beneath its old-world magnificence, the Hay-Adams is a totally 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 — particularly 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 recent boutique-hotel hospitality, tailored for a luxury-hotel clientele.

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