Empress Lounge

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• Lori
  Apr 5, 2022
  Great Experience at Tea!!

  We were recently in DC for a Capital Corgi Group Meetup for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Our group of 100+ people and maybe 60 or so corgis was meeting at the Jefferson Memorial and then taking a walk. I was hoping to find a dog friendly restaurant near the Jefferson Memorial to grab a meal after the corgi meetup ended. I was delighted to find that the Empress Lounge at the Mandarin Oriental serves high tea and is dog friendly. They actually had a special Cherry Blossom Festival tea event going on. While I believe they do accommodate guests with dogs on their patio for meals, I was told that they typically do not serve tea outside because the food is too delicate to be in the sun. They said they couldn't accommodate us on the main floor, but could on the upper level. I wasn't exactly sure what that meant, but was just happy that they were willing to accommodate us (3 adults and 4 well-behaved dogs). What it meant was that there were some seating areas that were in the lobby, immediately outside of the lounge. We were tucked into a cozy nook with comfortable seating and plenty of room for our girls to lie down and have a snooze. The tea was wonderful (both the quality of the food and the service). We also noticed guests checking in and out with dogs, so clearly, the Mandarin Oriental is dog friendly in general. I appreciate so much businesses that keep an open mind about those of us that love our dogs as much (if not more) than people and want to have them with us whenever reasonable. Note: there is parking very close to the Mandarin Oriental that you can prepurchase at a discount through SpotHero. It is at 1318 D Street SW (Portals III garage). We had a very comfortable walk to and around the Jefferson Memorial area and then on over to the mall and back.

• Linda
  Apr 3, 2022
  Beautiful grounds

  Friendly people, very welcoming to my pup.

We dug up 3 pictures of dogs at Empress Lounge.

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