{"id":105068,"date":"2025-10-10T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/?p=105068"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:04:35","slug":"civic-pride-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2025\/10\/civic-pride-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Pride: D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/Riggs-1.jpg\" alt=\"Riggs Washington DC\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Riggs Washington DC \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>Our Civic Pride series centers on some American cities that have nothing to be ashamed of. They are global hubs of culture, cuisine, and quintessential hotels. Part three winds up in Washington DC.<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator style=&#8221;dashed&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243;]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:10px;\"><\/aside><a class=\"image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/author\/markfedeli\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mark-small-circle-2.png\" class=\"thb_image  left  retina_size attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"mark small circle\" \/><\/a><aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:10px;\"><\/aside>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;11\/12&#8243;]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:10px;\"><\/aside>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1720455088433{background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/author\/markfedeli\/\">Mark Fedeli<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Marketing and Editorial Director, Tablet Hotels<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:10px;\"><\/aside>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator style=&#8221;dashed&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:40px;\"><\/aside>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<p><em><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"#anchor\">Skip down to the hotels<\/a>. Or, see our Civic Pride lists for <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2025\/10\/civic-pride-chicago\/?noapp=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago<\/a> and <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2025\/10\/civic-pride-portland\/?noapp=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portland<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lately it\u2019s become <em>de rigueur<\/em> to accuse certain American cities of being hellish war zones. Our hometown, New York City, was an early and ongoing target of these fabrications. All cities have their issues, of course \u2014 it\u2019s the nature of so many people living in such close quarters \u2014 but those issues are the price we gladly pay for easy exposure to a world\u2019s worth of different lifestyles and traditions.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s not for you, that\u2019s fine. All New Yorkers also yearn to look up from the kitchen sink and see fields of lavender and a Bambi or three. I regularly pine for the desert, and grew up in a wooded suburb, happily exploring the forest. I took a bus to school, which was a blast, but always wished I lived close enough to take a bike. My daughter, who\u2019s in second grade now, walks to school, only a couple blocks, and along the way we see dozens of her friends and their families. We often say it\u2019s like living on <em>Sesame Street<\/em>, brownstones and all.<\/p>\n<p>When I was on that school bus, wishing I was on my bike, I never would\u2019ve thought my child would do me one better, in Brooklyn of all places. We don&#8217;t live in fear. We\u2019re not surrounded by crime and riot. You can take the subway in and out of Manhattan every day and not have a single inconvenience caused by anything other than an outdated signal system. Ironically, the only thing that worries me about my daughter eventually walking the city on her own is that indelible symbol of the suburbs: the car. The streets are safe. Crossing them, on the other hand, requires vigilance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor\">\n<p>Our <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/category\/civic-pride\/?noapp=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Civic Pride series<\/a> looks at essential hotels in great American cities, starting with Chicago, Portland, and DC. We have colleagues and close friends in these places, and like us in New York, mostly they&#8217;re just bummed by the undeserved negative attention they&#8217;re receiving. And it goes without saying that none of this is good for the tourism industries. In fact, one Portland hotel sent an email recently asking that people not be fooled by the headlines, confirming that the city is alive and well and remains \u201cradically friendly, wildly creative, and unapologetically itself.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot to be proud of.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/eaton-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eaton DC<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Downtown<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/eaton-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/EatonDC.jpg\" alt=\"Eaton DC\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eaton is one of the most impressive boutique hotels in America, thanks in large part to its founder, Katharine Lo. She\u2019s the Hong Kong\u2013born, Yale-educated daughter of the chairman of the Langham group, so the basics of high-end hospitality are second nature. What makes the Eaton special is everything else, particularly its unapologetically outspoken social-justice ethos \u2014 this is a hotel that wears its politics on its sleeve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Featon-dc&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/hotel-nell-union-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Nell &#8211; Union Market<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Union Market<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/hotel-nell-union-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/HotelNell.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Nell - Union Market\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a century after a seed factory took up residence in an industrial building in the Union Market district, the landmark was reborn as the stylish Hotel Nell. A connection to the past is an essential part of the hotel\u2019s ethos: it\u2019s named after Nell Bolgiano, matriarch of the Bolgiano Seed Company. A horticultural theme endures, with lush shades of green enlivening the interiors and live foliage framing the Treehouse bar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Fhotel-nell-union-market&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/hotel-zena-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Zena<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Downtown<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/hotel-zena-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/Zena.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Zena\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the project that began with the 2017 Women\u2019s March, the Viceroy hotel group has made a statement with what used to be the Donovan \u2014 after a large-scale renovation it\u2019s been renamed Hotel Zena, and is now a grand feminist gesture, dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of women at every turn. As gestures go, it\u2019s not a subtle one \u2014 a pair of female \u201cWarrior Guardians\u201d adorn the exterior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Fhotel-zena-washington-dc&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/hotel-washington-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Downtown<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/hotel-washington-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/HotelWashington.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Washington\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who says there\u2019s nothing stylish to be found in staid old D.C.? The Hotel Washington is taking its design insurrection straight to the heart of the city. Despite the trademark funky interiors and youth-culture borrowings, the Hotel Washington pays plenty of homage to the history of what used to be, and its interiors preserve quite a lot of its Beaux-Arts grandeur, underneath a welcome gloss of contemporary color.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Fhotel-washington-1&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/riggs-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Riggs Washington DC<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Downtown<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/riggs-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/Riggs.jpg\" alt=\"Riggs Washington DC\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not every day a 19th-century Romanesque Revival bank building in Washington\u2019s Penn Quarter district reopens as a hotel, especially one as stylish as Riggs. It starts with the well-preserved bones of the stately old bank, but this is no mere restoration \u2014 they\u2019ve taken liberties, using the city\u2019s history as their inspiration, adding a welcome note of playfulness to the elegance you expect from a Washington D.C. luxury hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Friggs-washington-dc&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/rosewood-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosewood Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Georgetown<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/rosewood-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/Rosewood.jpg\" alt=\"Rosewood Washington, D.C.\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For visitors to Washington, D.C.\u2019s Georgetown neighborhood, high-end accommodations have long been provided by the usual big-name suspects. For an experience that\u2019s smaller in scale, but similarly high in standards, there\u2019s a newer option. On the banks of the C&#038;O Canal, Rosewood&#8217;s 55 rooms, 12 suites, and eight townhouses show the influence of modern boutique-hotel hospitality, adapted for a luxury-hotel clientele.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Frosewood-washington-dc&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/the-dupont-circle-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dupont Circle Hotel<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dupont Circle<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/the-dupont-circle-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/Dupont.jpg\" alt=\"The Dupont Circle Hotel\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a town as traditional as Washington, a little bit of modern design goes a long way. The newly redesigned Dupont Hotel is, in its subtly stylish way, one of the hippest hotels in the nation\u2019s capital. It\u2019s the only hotel on Dupont Circle, in a neighborhood better known for dining, nightlife and entertainment than for monuments or institutions \u2014 which, provided you\u2019re not here with your high school history class, is definitely a good thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Fthe-dupont-circle-hotel&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/yours-truly-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yours Truly DC<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Downtown<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/yours-truly-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/YoursTruly.jpg\" alt=\"Yours Truly DC\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yours Truly, a member of IHG\u2019s Vignette Collection, is one of the new breed of boutique hotels that aims to create an atmosphere of approachable sociability, rather than luxe elitism, and while its modernist, industrial architecture may recall the first wave of high-design boutique hotels, its interior decoration is warm and eclectic, and feels more collected than consciously designed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Fyours-truly-dc&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/the-line-dc-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The LINE DC<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Adams Morgan<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/the-line-dc-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/LineDC.jpg\" alt=\"The LINE DC\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A century-old church in Adams Morgan provides the venue for The LINE DC, a boutique hotel in an of-the-moment bohemian-eclectic style, complete with restaurants and bars that make it a central player in the neighborhood\u2019s dining and nightlife scene. There\u2019s a grain of truth to some of the stereotypes about the nation\u2019s capital, but there\u2019s nothing sleepy or unstylish about the LINE\u2019s vision of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Fthe-line-dc-hotel&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/pendry-washington-dc-the-wharf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pendry Washington DC \u2013 The Wharf<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Southwest Waterfront<\/em> \u2014 Washington D.C., USA<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/washington-dc-hotels\/pendry-washington-dc-the-wharf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251011-DC\/Pendry.jpg\" alt=\"Pendry Washington DC \u2013 The Wharf\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physically, it\u2019s not all that far from Capitol Hill, but in terms of its aesthetics and its atmosphere, the Pendry Washington DC &#8211; The Wharf presents a completely different side of the nation\u2019s capital. It\u2019s clear from a glance at its ultra-modern fa\u00e7ade that this is no ordinary luxury hotel, and its setting on the waterfront lends it an escapist aspect as well. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fwashington-dc-hotels%2Fpendry-washington-dc-the-wharf&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thb_image  left  retina_size \" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mark-200x250.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" alt=\"mark\" title=\"mark\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:20px;\"><\/aside>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1676124357965{background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]Mark Fedeli is the hotel marketing and editorial director for Tablet and Michelin Guide. He&#8217;s been with Tablet since 2006, and he thinks you should <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/cb.tablethotels.com\/join\/magazine-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Civic Pride series centers on some American cities that have nothing to be ashamed of. They are global hubs of culture, cuisine, and quintessential hotels. 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