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The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C.

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The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. opened in 2000 as a 300-room West End house at 1150 22nd Street NW, between Georgetown and Foggy Bottom, a short walk from the World Bank and IMF campus. A $12 million refresh finished in 2008. Eric Ripert's Westend Bistro once held the dining room; today Enrique Limardo's Spanish restaurant The Saga and Quadrant Bar & Lounge take the embassy and summit crowd.

About The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C.

History

The West End neighborhood, where The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. stands at 1150 22nd Street NW, occupies a transitional position in the capital's geography that is easily underestimated. Between Georgetown to the west and Foggy Bottom to the east, bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue to the south and M Street to the north, the West End spent most of the nineteenth century as a residential district of modest rowhouses before the twentieth century layered onto it the institutions that now define its character: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and George Washington University — all within a few minutes' walk of the hotel — along with dozens of foreign missions and embassy offices that make this stretch of D.C. one of the most diplomatically active in the city.

The hotel opened in 2000, the same year that the Ritz-Carlton opened its property in New Orleans and Philadelphia, part of the brand's aggressive late-1990s and early-2000s expansion into American urban markets. A renovation in 2019 refreshed the property's physical fabric without altering the institutional function it had developed over two decades: a 300-room hotel positioned for the kind of travel — state delegations, foreign dignitaries, international development professionals, embassy officials — that gravitates toward the World Bank and IMF campus less than a mile to the east.

The dining program has sharpened considerably in recent years. The Saga, the inventive Spanish restaurant from Enrique Limardo — a Venezuelan-born chef who holds Michelin stars for his work in Washington — brings a culinary ambition to the hotel that extends well beyond the expectations of its diplomatically oriented clientele. Limardo's cooking draws on Latin American and Spanish traditions in ways that reflect his own formation and the city's growing appetite for serious international cuisine. The Quadrant Bar and Lounge provides the lobby-level American dining and classic cocktail program that the hotel's transient guests require.

The hotel holds AAA Four Diamond designation and the 12,000 square feet of event space that it maintains has made it a consistent venue for the kind of substantive meetings — bilateral conferences, multilateral negotiations, private diplomatic dinners — that the West End's institutional geography naturally attracts.

The setting

The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. rises at 1150 22nd Street NW in the West End, a compact luxury enclave that a 1972 urban-renewal plan titled 'New Town for the West End' built from Victorian rowhouses and light-industrial lots in the birthplace neighborhood of jazz composer Duke Ellington. Positioned between Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and Foggy Bottom, the district today concentrates the IMF, the World Bank, George Washington University, and Michelin-starred restaurants including Rasika and Blue Duck Tavern. The Foggy Bottom Metro is a short walk away, with the White House twelve transit minutes distant. 3 miles from National Mall. 4 miles from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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