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Trump Hotel - Washingtonian https://dev.w-cm.com The website that Washington lives by. Tue, 09 May 2023 18:01:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://dev.w-cm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Trump Hotel - Washingtonian https://dev.w-cm.com 32 32 https://dev.w-cm.com/2023/02/08/jose-andres-opens-his-latest-restaurant-inside-the-former-trump-hotel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jose-andres-opens-his-latest-restaurant-inside-the-former-trump-hotel Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:00:57 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1622847 José Andrés will open his whimsical Spanish-inspired restaurant the Bazaar inside the former Trump hotel today—eight years after he backed out of a deal in the same location, leading to a high-profile legal battle with the former President of the United States. Andrés initially signed on to open a fine-dining restaurant in the lobby of […]

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August 2022: Taco Town https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/07/21/august-2022-contents-page-tacos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=august-2022-contents-page-tacos Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:42:03 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1591638 FEATURES Is the Government Hiding Evidence About UFOs and Alien Life? Washington’s “UFO lobbyist” has been on a mission for decades to make the White House and Congress believe. Despite a recent congressional hearing on the topic, he says there’s more work to be done. By Luke Mullins.   Taco Town Our 30 favorite places […]

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Trump Haters Are Finally Booking Reservations at Sushi Nakazawa https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/07/06/trump-haters-are-finally-booking-reservations-at-sushi-nakazawa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trump-haters-are-finally-booking-reservations-at-sushi-nakazawa Wed, 06 Jul 2022 19:17:48 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1585945 Sushi Nakazawa is arguably the best sushi restaurant in DC. Co-founded by a protégé of Jiro Dreams of Sushi’s legendary fish master, the omakase den is the city’s only Japanese spot that currently has a Michelin star. But for the past four years, even many of Washington’s most hardcore nigiri devotees—the kind who will happily […]

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https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/06/13/jose-andres-ultimately-wins-the-food-fight-with-donald-trump/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jose-andres-ultimately-wins-the-food-fight-with-donald-trump Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:20:02 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1584481 They say revenge is a dish best served cold—so we imagine chef José Andrés will dish up plenty of his famous gazpacho in the former Trump Hotel. The DC-based celebrity chef will open a location of his modernist global concept, The Bazaar, in the Old Post Office building that once housed Trump International, as first […]

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The Just-Opened Waldorf Astoria Looks Exactly Like the Trump Hotel https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/06/03/the-just-opened-waldorf-astoria-looks-exactly-like-the-trump-hotel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-just-opened-waldorf-astoria-looks-exactly-like-the-trump-hotel Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:48:28 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1583758 The Waldorf Astoria Washington DC has officially opened in place of the Trump Hotel, but other than the sign out front and the lack of Trump cronies wandering the lobby, it’s very tough to tell the difference. The plush blue-velvet couches, the eye-catching crystal chandeliers, the tremendous American flag spanning four floors, even the gold […]

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RIP Trump International, DC’s Wildest Hotel https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/05/12/rip-trump-international-dcs-wildest-hotel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rip-trump-international-dcs-wildest-hotel Thu, 12 May 2022 19:17:50 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1581770 The Trump International Hotel Washington DC, age six years, attempted to fade away quietly on the night of May 11, 2022 (sadly for the Trump family, there’s no way Twitter was going to let that happen). Its passing was proceeded by years of complications and a final, lethal $375 million sale to a Miami investor […]

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Trump’s Inaugural Committee Settles With DC Over Money Spent at Trump Hotel https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/05/03/trumps-inaugural-committee-settles-with-dc-over-money-spent-at-trump-hotel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trumps-inaugural-committee-settles-with-dc-over-money-spent-at-trump-hotel Tue, 03 May 2022 15:52:30 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1580869 Former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee agreed to pay $750,000 to the District of Columbia Tuesday because of money DC’s attorney general says it misspent at Trump’s hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. Attorney General Karl Racine in 2020 sued the committee, as well as the Trump Organization, saying it “wasted approximately $1 million of charitable funds […]

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Washingtonian’s Best Longreads of 2021 https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/12/30/washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2021 Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:00:41 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1561180 This year ended with a plot twist, eh? Time to hunker down, pour yourself a cup of tea (or something stronger), and let any one of these longreads transport you to a headspace that is not America in the last week of a second pandemic year. Trump Hotel Employees Reveal What It Was Really Like […]

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Sushi Nakazawa Will Remain If Trump Hotel Is Sold https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/11/16/sushi-nakazawa-will-remain-if-trump-hotel-is-sold/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sushi-nakazawa-will-remain-if-trump-hotel-is-sold Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:46:52 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1557997 DC’s Trump hotel is on its way to being sold for $375 million. Miami-based investment firm CGI Merchant Group, which is under contract to acquire the lease, has already said it plans to get rid of the Trump name and bring in Hilton’s Waldorf Astoria group to manage the property. One thing that won’t change, […]

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5 Wild and Weird Moments From the Trump Hotel We’ll Never Forget https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/11/15/5-wild-and-weird-moments-from-the-trump-hotel-well-never-forget/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-wild-and-weird-moments-from-the-trump-hotel-well-never-forget Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:42:11 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1556001 After years of rumor and speculation, it looks like the Trump hotel lease will actually soon be sold. The Wall Street Journal broke the news over the weekend that Miami-based investment firm CGI Merchant Group is under contract to take over the controversial property for $375 million and plans to remove the Trump name. It will […]

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