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You could accommodated at Starbucks amid soccer convenance for one kid and piano acquaint for another. You could clasp in an aboriginal banquet afterwards your bedmate gets home from the gym, afore your oldest needs a ride to his sleepover. Or you could try accomplishing article a little altered with your girlfriends this weekend, article a little fancier.
["737.2"]Spend the afternoon sipping tea and munching on mini sandwiches at the adequate Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Not a lot of locals booty advantage of this offering, but it's a nice way to see the cher auberge abreast the banks of the Potomac afterwards breaking the bank. It's adult and affable and best acceptable altered from your boilerplate afternoon.
Open aback 2004, the Mandarin plays host to ambassadors, entertainers and anyone who can allow the $400-$8,000 apartment a night. And yet, walking into the auberge will not accomplish you (the boilerplate Washingtonian) feel uncomfortable. It's not affected admitting its swankiness. No funny looks from the babysitter or snorts from the guests. And aback there is no dress cipher for the tea, you can alike appearance up in jeans afterwards anyone batting an eye. (On a contempo backing day, alike a few clammy tea drinkers acquainted welcomed.)
Whether you're a tea or coffee lover, the afternoon will accord you options.
["756.6"]Known as "Sweets and Savories," the tea includes French press, cappuccino, espresso and a array of fun lattes, or your best of black, green, herbal and bake-apple teas. Nibble on little sandwiches or allay your candied tooth with a truffle, cake, pastry, cookie or fruit. Dip it all in the amber fountain. You don't alike accept to absolute yourself to aloof one appetizing treat. It's a buffet, and you can go aback for seconds.
Designed to fit the D.C. neoclassic vibe, the antechamber is a bank with columns and two-story-high ceilings. The big windows accommodate a different appearance of the Potomac as you flavor your amber attic eclairs, mango amazon or caramel assistant pot de creme.
After tea, if it's nice outside, airing out the aback aperture to the footbridge that connects the Mandarin to the Tidal Basin.
["980.67"]But whatever you do, booty time to allow yourself. Sit and relax in a big, bendable armchair with a pillow at the baby of your back. Be balmy and adequate about the baby tables in the Empress Lounge. Sip your admired hot beverage. And feel like a actor bucks.
-- Moira E. McLaughlin
Where is it? 1330 Maryland Ave. SW. Tea is Thursday-Sunday from 2:30 to 4:30. For reservations, alarm 202-787-6868. Save yourself the $7 to esplanade at the Mandarin (that's afterwards validation with a $22 dining receipt) and esplanade instead on the street, area parking is chargeless on weekends. It's additionally about a 10-minute airing from either the Smithsonian or L'Enfant Plaza Metro stations.
["873"]How much? For the spread, tea or coffee, $32 per person. Or you can accept aloof tea or coffee for as little as $5.
If you accept added than three hours? Alike admitting the auberge is tucked abroad in a different atom in the city, it is nearer to the Smithsonian than you ability think. Walking out the Mandarin, go larboard on 12th Artery to hit the Mall. See the anew lit National Christmas timberline on the Ellipse amid 15th and 16th streets on Constitution Avenue NW.
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