Things to Do in Georgetown
Cobblestones, canalside cafes, and the best window-shopping in DC.
Georgetown is DC's oldest neighborhood and still its most cinematic. Federal-era row houses line brick sidewalks along M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, where flagship shops share the block with indie bookstores, wine bars, and the kind of bakery queue that's worth standing in. The C&O Canal runs through the middle of it, the Potomac waterfront anchors the south, and the whole thing slopes up into quiet residential streets that feel like a film set.
Eat & Drink
$$$Top of the Gate Rooftop
Watergate Hotel rooftop with the best skyline view of the Kennedy Center.
Fitzgerald's
A cocktail-first Georgetown hideaway with a sharp, intimate room.
The Rooftop at the Graham
Georgetown rooftops, monument views, and a polished hotel-bar crowd.
See & Do
Great Falls Park
15 miles from downtown and suddenly you are in a whitewater gorge.
Key Bridge Boathouse
Kayak the Potomac past the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Memorial, and Roosevelt Island.
FreeTheodore Roosevelt Island
88 acres of forest in the middle of the Potomac. Free, quiet, perfect.
At Night
FreeKennedy Center Millennium Stage
Free, world-class performances every day at 6 p.m.
$$$Blues Alley
Oldest continuously operating jazz club in the country. Intimate, excellent.
Fitzgerald's
A cocktail-first Georgetown hideaway with a sharp, intimate room.
Georgetown Piano Bar
Request-driven piano singalongs that turn strangers into a chorus.
Smith Point
An intentionally elusive Georgetown club powered by exclusivity and word of mouth.
The Tombs
The below-street Georgetown institution generations of students refuse to outgrow.
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