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Speakeasies in Washington, DC

3 rooms worth the walk, from hidden door, hotel bar.

Columbia Room in Washington, DC
4.6

Columbia Room

Shaw · Washington, DC

A tasting-menu cocktail bar down a cobblestone alley, treating drinks with the same seriousness a chef gives a nine-course dinner.

Hidden Door
The Gibson in Washington, DC
4.5

The Gibson

U Street · Washington, DC

One of DC's original hidden-door revivalists, a warren of small rooms behind a black unmarked door on 14th Street.

Hidden Door
Off the Record in Washington, DC
4.3

Off the Record

Downtown · Washington, DC

A basement bar across from the White House where the walls are covered in caricatures of every administration since the hotel opened.

Hotel Bar

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