Celebrations LGBTQ+ History and Culture In Washington, DC Pride and politics have always gone hand-in-hand in Washington, DC.
Destinations 5 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up Check out these bucket list destinations and unforgettable places that your kids need to visit before they leave the nest!
Travel Tips Your Next Travel Destination Based on Your Zodiac Sign Our 2023 travel horoscopes will guide every zodiac sign to their just-right dream destination.
Travel Tips Here’s How to Beat Jet Lag When Traveling Follow these simple tips to feel fresh and fabulous no matter what time zone you’re in.
Travel Tips Traveling with Breast Milk? Store It Safely During Your Stay with Our On Demand Family Fridge Program Kimpton hotels now offer private refrigerators delivered to your room to safety store breast milk.
Destinations Family Vacation Travel Hacks: Free In Washington DC Travel is getting expensive, but with a wealth of free, family-friendly options, D.C. makes the perfect summer vacation.
Destinations 5 Places to Immerse Your Family in American History this Summer From San Francisco to Boston, these cities are a history lover’s dream perfect for the whole family to visit this summer.
Destinations A Peek at the Acclaimed Artists You’ll Find at DC’s Kimpton Banneker Hotel The nation’s capital is home to so many illustrious art museums, it can be hard to decide which to visit. But when you stay at Kimpton Banneker Hotel in Dupont Circle, you won’t have to leave the building to find works from internationally acclaimed artists.
Destinations Hidden Gems in DC’s Historic Dupont Circle Let’s talk about the ‘other’ D.C. — Dupont Circle. It may be one of the most storied neighborhoods in our nation’s capital, but hey, this old dog has some new tricks.
Destinations A Travel Itinerary for Book Lovers Visiting Washington, DC Our friends at Literary Hub, the go-to hub for book lovers and literary culture, have put together a killer itinerary for anyone traveling to Washington DC.
Destinations How Black History Has Shaped the Nation’s Capital and 5 Black Culture Highlights You Shouldn’t Miss Let us be your guide to five can’t-miss Black history and culture highlights on your next trip to Washington DC.
Destinations The Best Place to Take a Photo 10 Cities Stop by these 10 great photography spots for a perfect shot of your travels.
Destinations Make the Most of Your Family’s Summer with These 5 Educational Destinations Summer school just got an upgrade. Check out these five great history-loving cities that prove that learning can coexist with family fun.
Entertaining 13 Coffee Table Books for Art & Design Lovers Sharing the Kimpton design team’s top picks—from our spaces to yours.
Entertaining 3 Tips to Stretch Your Meetings Budget Planning a meeting on a budget? Here are three tricks to max your dollars.
Travel Tips 6 Ways to Approach Conscious Travel Conscious travel is all about treading lightly and finding ways to contribute positively – no matter where you go. Here’s to more inspired and mindful travel. this year.
Travel Tips Seven U.S. Metros Having a Moment Garnering national attention for reasons artistic, innovative and delicious, these seven U.S. cities rise to the top of our 2020 travel bucket list.
Travel Tips 4 Ways to Get Fitness Resolutions Back on Track Are your New Year’s wellness resolutions veering a bit off course? Recommit to a routine of smart eating and exercise with these 4 tips, courtesy of Graham King, head trainer at Urban Athletic Club within the Kimpton Glover Park Hotel.
Destinations Washington, DC Rolls Out the Pink Carpet for the National Cherry Blossom Festival We’ve rounded up some sweet ways to get in the cherry blossom spirit and take that perfect #nofilter-worthy shot in Washington, D.C.
Destinations Discover Holiday Magic in the DC Area There’s no lack of Christmas fun in the DC area. Check out some of our favorite activities that will make this magical season even brighter.
Destinations The Best Fall Activities in DC For the Whole Family The best fall activities in DC incorporate food, culture, history and more. Enjoy fall in DC with the whole family.
Destinations You’ll Never Believe What These Historic Hotels Used to Be What’s old is what’s new. These seven hotels housed in historic buildings leverage their past lives to tell a brand new story.
Destinations 5 Washington DC-Based Artists You Should Know 5 Artists, One Voice: The latest exhibition at DC’s Carlyle Hotel
Destinations 6 of the Coolest Women-Led Businesses Celebrate Women’s Equality Day with a visit to these amazing women-owned and run businesses.
Destinations Summer Exhibits and Experiences in Washington DC We’ve rounded up four ways for you to unearth culture on a visit to the nation’s capital this summer.
Travel Tips Six Places To Stay During Your Next Campus Visit When it comes to college tours, graduations or campus visits, we’re just around the corner.
Kimpton Buzz Tastemaker Spotlight: Q&A with Marcia Kimpton, Director of “Bardo Blues” Daughter of founder Bill Kimpton debuts her first feature film.
Destinations A Romantic Weekend in DC’s Logan Circle and Shaw If history, culture, hip bars and top chefs get your heart pumping, then Washington DC should be next on your list.
Destinations Neighborhood Spotlight: DC’s Golden Triangle Just south of Dupont Circle, this neighborhood is filled with historic restaurants and bars, beautiful museums and shops locals love.
Destinations Best Under the Radar Museums in Washington DC The Smithsonian museums are great, but they aren’t the only museums in the DC area worth a visit.
Destinations Capitol Hill for the Non-Politico The Capitol Hill neighborhood is more than buttoned-up suits and power lunches.
Destinations Neighborhood Spotlight: Wellness Near Logan Circle Use this guide on your next trip to DC to ensure a relaxing and restorative getaway.
Destinations 4 Can’t-Miss Cultural Activities in Washington DC This Fall The nation's capital comes alive in the fall with cultural events and exhibitions all across the city.
Eat + Drink Our Favorite Lemonade Recipe Taste the best of summer as top chefs share their favorite homemade lemonade recipes—from a fresh classic one to creative hard lemonades sure to make a splash.
Destinations Neighborhood Spotlight: DC’s Penn Quarter From Chinatown's Friendship Archway to the hippest spot to grab a bite, get to know Washington, DC’s vibrant Penn Quarter neighborhood.
Destinations Three Unexpected Winter Getaways While everyone else is escaping to sunny vacation spots, why not try something new and explore these bustling cities this winter? Here’s an urban trio worth bundling up for.
Eat + Drink Raise a Glass to These 7 Essential Fall Cocktails There's nothing like a boozy cocktail to warm the spirits. Here are 7 fall-inspired cocktails shared by some of the best bartenders from around the country.
Eat + Drink Must-Try Breweries in DC and Baltimore Be prepared to get “hoppy” with our guide to the DC area and Baltimore's most noteworthy craft breweries.
Destinations Have a Blockbuster Summer in DC From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the rowhouses of Capitol Hill, have a blockbuster summer at a few of our favorite film sites in Washington, DC
Eat + Drink Teamwork Makes Dirty Habit’s Menus Shine Food and drinks pair even more perfectly courtesy of the dynamic (behind-the-scenes) duo at Washington DC's Dirty Habit restaurant and bar.
Entertaining 3 Cocktails to Spice Up Your Holiday Party Turn up the volume on your next holiday party with these crowd-pleasing cocktails and punches. Spiced grenadine, vermouth or apple cider - it's up to you!
Destinations Exploring African American Culture in Washington, DC A new chapter in DC's African American history will be written when President Obama helps open the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
Destinations Centennial Celebration: 10 Hidden-Gem Parks in DC Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service! We've found 10 off-the-beaten-path parks in the nation's capital that are worth celebrating.
Travel Tips 6 Classes to Switch Up Your Workout Going to hit the treadmill again? Boring! When it comes to working out, shake things up with these unique workout classes.
Destinations DC’s Great Escape: Kimpton Glover Park Hotel We're hitting a perfect 10 in the nation's capital. Nestled among the buzziest spots in D.C. is Kimpton's newest hotel, Glover Park.
Destinations LGBT Travel: 3 Must-Visit Gayborhoods Planning your next vacay? Make sure you keep these gayborhoods in mind.
Destinations Capital Culture: Summer Exhibits in Washington, DC Epic exhibits, free evening concerts and for history buffs, a trip down 5,000 years of Greek history. It all awaits in DC this summer.
Travel Tips 4 Cities Embracing Bike Culture To celebrate National Bike Month, we recommend hitting the streets in Chicago, Portland, NYC and DC–four cities offering safer, more vibrant biker-friendly streets.
Destinations The Neighborhood Dish: Exploring the Beauty and Buzz around Dupont Circle The Kimpton Carlyle Hotel sits in the middle of all that the Dupont Circle neighborhood has to offer.
Travel Tips 5 Ways to Shake Up Family Spring Break Read on for tips for planning a fun and fabulous family spring break.
Eat + Drink 3 Chef Recipe Picks for Valentine’s Day Whether you're cooking for your partner-in-crime or the entire family, read on for three Valentine's Day chef-inspired recipes. That's amore.
Eat + Drink A Chef’s Latke Trio Recipe for Hanukkah Heat up the fry pan for a delicious holiday tradition. Here's betting you'll want to eat these for eight days straight.
Eat + Drink Sweet Sensations: 4 Kimpton Pastry Chefs You Should Know We're big believers in saving room for dessert. But not only that -- we think it's as important as the main course. Meet some of our pastry chefs, who tempt you with everything from fine chocolates to peach cakes.
Entertaining How to Host an Elevated Potluck — So Easy! Football season is back -- and parties should be more than chips and dip. Wow your company with unexpected apps, beyond-ordinary spreads, and lots of cheers. These recipes from Kimpton chefs will up your potluck.
Eat + Drink Bar Star Gets Seriously Playful With Low-Proof Cocktails At Urbana in Washington, D.C., bartender Andrea Tateosian is shaking things up with creative, low-proof cocktails. She talks about the low-ABV trend and offers a recipe of her own.
Travel Tips Beyond the Treadmill: Unique Travel Workouts at Kimpton Finding time to exercise when you're on the road can be hard. That's why many of our hotels offer unique travel workouts that just might be a high point of your trip. Watch Video
Destinations Monuments by Moonlight: Exploring DC at Night Majestic Washington, D.C., is even more spectacular on summer evenings when the crowds and heat have subsided. Check out our tips for exploring D.C. at night.
Entertaining Palomar DC Event Spaces: Exclusively for Everyone Washington DC is home to lots of fancy private clubs, but you don't have to be a Beltway insider to access our newly renovated Hotel Palomar DC event spaces.
Destinations Get to Know the Kimpton Carlyle Hotel in Washington, DC We've elected to open our ninth hotel in the nation's capital. Say hello to Kimpton Carlyle – Dupont Circle, our new Kimpton hotel in Washington DC.
Destinations Think Pink: DC’s National Cherry Blossom Festival For 103 years, Washington, D.C.'s, National Cherry Blossom Festival has celebrated the arrival of spring. We put you in the pink with details and deals.
Destinations A Capital Affair: Tips for a Romantic Weekend in DC For Valentine’s Day, or anytime of year, here are some swoon-worthy ideas for a romantic weekend in D.C., plus some deals to sweeten your stay this month.
Destinations Six Under-the-Radar, Cool Neighborhoods to Explore Looking to avoid the tourist crowd? Check out these six cool neighborhoods from around the country where you can hang with the locals.
Eat + Drink Our Chef-Recommended, Must-Have Gifts for Cooks Looking for the perfect present for the kitchen wizard in your life? We asked a few of our chefs for their must-have gifts for cooks.
Eat + Drink New and Renovated Kimpton Restaurants Old favorites have gotten a refresh and soon-to-be-favorites are opening their doors — here’s a quick recap on what's new with Kimpton restaurants.
Destinations America’s Best Urban Running Trails Discover a local perspective while traveling — and burn calories — by going for a jog on one of these five top urban running trails.
Destinations Kimpton Celebrates National Cherry Blossom Festival Widely known fact: The nation’s capital goes bonkers for its beloved cherry blossoms. Little-known fact: We here at Kimpton do, too.
Destinations The George Gets a Revolutionary Renovation The 139-room hotel has been refreshed from top to bottom, and nods to the hotel’s namesake are everywhere.
Eat + Drink A Toast to Love: Valentine Cocktails We know the importance of chocolate … and of a great cocktail. So our bar stars have whipped up some chocolaty creations that could have come straight out of an Oompa Loompa test kitchen.
Kimpton Buzz The Votes are In Nearly 80,000 discerning travelers voted in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2013 Readers’ Poll and we’re thrilled to let you know that a bunch of our properties made the cut.
Eat + Drink What Are You Drinking New Year’s Eve? Maybe it’s much too early in the game, but we thought we’d ask you just the same: What are you drinking New Year’s Eve?
Entertaining Ghostly Gatherings and Halloween Happenings One thing nobody has to wait for is Halloween … it’s heeere. And if you enjoy frighteningly good DJs, scary-creative cocktails and mad revelry, we have some suggestions for you.
Kimpton Buzz Back to the Future Have you ever walked into one our hotels and thought, “There’s more than meets the eye here”? And perhaps wondered what it might have been before?
Eat + Drink Roof-to-Table: The Ultimate in Local Dining A number of our restaurants have wholeheartedly embraced urban agriculture, growing fruits, vegetables and herbs in rooftop (or patio) gardens for daily use in their kitchens and lounges.
Destinations Make Like a “Mad Men” Character in Washington DC We're a little mad for Mad Men. In fact, if you offered us extra office space in Sterling Cooper Draper Price on Madison Avenue, we'd probably move right in.
Kimpton Buzz The Best Lincoln-Themed Hotel Package in DC "Lincoln" is up for Best Picture at the Oscars. What's better than seeing the movie? Getting a real-deal presidential experience at Hotel Monaco Washington D.C.
Eat + Drink Chef Danny Bortnick: Kimpton’s Foraging Fan Our final installment in our yearlong culinary journey is Forage, and it celebrates the bounty of ingredients that can be found in nature.
Eat + Drink Holiday Spirits: Kimpton Bartenders’ Favorite Cocktails Sleigh bells ring. Are you listening? Better yet, are you toasting? You will once you try these cocktail recipes from Kimpton’s head bartenders.
Eat + Drink Topaz Bar Toasts the Presidential Candidates The election is just five days way. Decisions, decisions!
Kimpton Buzz Washington DC Hotel Deals: The Cure for Election Fever It’s Nike Women’s Marathon time and more than 25,000 runners, men and women alike, will tear through the streets of San Francisco this Sunday.
Eat + Drink Poste Moderne Brassiere Serves Election Cocktails It’s election season, which means you may be throwing support behind your party. You also may simply want to party.
Eat + Drink Sneak Peek! Firefly Restaurant’s New Look Firefly restaurant in Washington D.C. is momentarily closed. But tell your appetite not to worry – it’ll open back up on Saturday, September 29, with an exciting, new look.
Travel Tips Stretch out the Fun at a Kimpton Hotel Yoga Class Our hotels are dedicated to helping you feel well and good when you’re on the road, so this is an especially happy time for us. As it happens, we have yoga classes for our guests all over the nation.
Eat + Drink Cheers to Olympics Cocktails! London’s calling. And we can’t wait to tune in. Toast the five rings with Olympics-themed cocktails, available at select Kimpton bars and restaurants in San Francisco and Washington D.C.
Kimpton Buzz Let’s Celebrate Earth Week! During Earth Week – which starts today! – our hotels and restaurants show the environment even more affection with everything from eco-focused events to sustainable-minded menus.
Eat + Drink Cocktails Bloom in Honor of D.C’s Cherry Blossom Festival Our bartenders have been busy concocting Japanese and cherry blossom-inspired sips, available through April 27, when the festival concludes.
Eat + Drink Cocktails Get Political at Topaz Bar in Washington DC With an election year here and the GOP race in full swing, everyone’s talking politics. And Topaz Bar in Washington D.C. is adding cocktails to the conversation.
Eat + Drink Cocktails We Love for Valentine’s Day These cocktails – gathered from Kimpton’s lounge, bar and restaurant menus across the country – are festively red and known to set the mood for romance.
Eat + Drink 3 Dishes to Savor in Washington DC They say yummy things come in threes. We believe it after hearing about a trifecta of delicious – and entirely out-of-the-ordinary – dishes on our menus in Washington D.C.
Eat + Drink Hot Cocktails, Cool Patio It isn’t warm in Washington D.C. this time of year. But that hasn’t stopped Poste Moderne Brasserie from keeping its courtyard upper patio open.
Eat + Drink Our Chefs’ Favorite Healthy-Eating Gift Ideas What do you buy for the cook that has it all? More things to cook with, of course!
Travel Tips We Like to Bike By now you know we are always on the move. In June, we showed you how we make a run for it.
Eat + Drink Chef’s Summer Celebration Has Local Flavor It’s summertime … and the living is easy. Mostly because there are just so many good things out there to eat.
Eat + Drink Discover Our Chefs on Twitter A little birdie told us that our chefs have been pretty outspoken lately on Twitter. Sure enough, we checked and the tweets were flying.
Eat + Drink Danny Bortnick’s Chicken Matzoh Ball Soup Even as spring shows its sunny face, we still turn to warming comfort foods. A favorite? Matzoh ball soup.
Destinations National Cherry Blossom Festival Springs Up in DC The city blooms with hundreds of activities, including street fairs, live music and dance performances, art exhibitions, lectures, riverboat teas, and of course gorgeous pink trees.
Destinations Fall Fling in Scenic Virginia Virginia is for lovers, and people fall head over heels for the Old Dominion itself in the fall. Get your fill on a road trip packed with gorgeous views, scenic drives, little towns, farms, and vineyards.
