Got $100,000 to spare? The Ritz-Carlton has a ridiculous package for inauguration they’d like to sell you.

The health care insurance industry is meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel today for its National Policy Forum conference, and reform activists are busy taking to the streets of Washington as a result. A large group has gathered in Dupont Circle to hear from former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and other speakers. When that’s over, they plan to march to the Ritz-Carlton, so watch out for traffic delays and high pedestrian volume in the area….

We all know Virginia is hell, and that traffic around Tysons Corner is a nightmare. Well, it looks like it’s going to get a little more painful, if celebrity chef and reality TV star Gordon Ramsay has anything to say about it. Don Rockwell confirms that Ramsay’s takeover of the old Maestro space at the Ritz Carlton at Tysons is a done deal. Now if only he would name it Junkpuncher’s….

D.C.’s 2007 Taste of the Nation to support “Share Our Strength” was held last night at the Washington Hilton Hotel to raise funds to combat childhood hunger in our region. The event featured over 70 restaurants, chefs, and distributors from the D.C. metro area who all came out to support the cause and glad hand with their fans. An estimate of a whopping 1200 people showed up for good food, drinks, company, and a noble…

Ever since we moved to Shaw nearly a year ago, we’ve been waiting for Azi’s Cafe, on the corner of 9th and O St. NW, to open. Though we love our neighborhood, the lack of any sort of restaurants or independent shops has been getting on our nerves; a Giant full of sketchy produce leaves something to be desired. Nearly every day we’d walk past Azi’s, but the windows remained covered with paper and no…

The corner of New Hampshire Avenue and M Street has never been known as one of the city’s most beautiful. With Don Shula’s steakhouse, Lulu’s Club Mardi Gras and the Exxon gas station in the center, you may wonder why the West End Ritz Carlton decided to set up shop on the edge of what could be described as a garish, undefined regurgitate semi-urban, semi-suburban architectural mess. Lulu’s attempts to transform the corner of M…

We came across this image from some sort of University of Oregon research page on urban heat islands. While a political pundit may try to say that Congress or the White House is full of hot air, it may in fact be the Pentagon. Examining this undated map, here are some locations in near the center of the city that produce a lot of heat. – the Pentagon – Department of Agriculture – Department of…

While the HBO lobbying docudrama “K Street” got high marks for its originality and concept, it seemed to have been of interest to only a handful of devoted followers inside the Beltway (lobbyists and Hill policy wonks, mainly, with a smattering of the celebrity politician and media types who got cameos throughout the series). And then they got bored with it and HBO did away with the series. But now you can watch the…