Georgetown’s New Cool
Monday, January 28, 2008
On Wednesday night I found myself at the sleek new and very hush-hush private club L2 in Cady’s Alley in Georgetown. There is a Web site for L2, but you have to be a member to gain access to that as well. Check out The Post’s Going Out Gurus blog or Yeas & Nays’ review
(I think they were the first to scoop the place) to get the skinny on L2 and the other “exclusive” lounges cropping up – and don’t miss the comments below. It certainly reeks of exclusivity at the moment – you could tell that everyone there felt incredibly cool and special to have been in the room (LOTS of scoping going on). I guess that’s the point of these places….DC Magazine sponsored the party along with Imperia Vodka. They had gorgeous leggy girls (with very thick accents) passing out shot after shot of vodka, while the bartenders (there could have been more, if you ask me) mixed delish blood-orange-and-vodka drinks.
The crowd was well-dressed but certainly not risk-taking by any means in terms of dress.
It’s interesting, all these “exclusive” new see-and-be-seen places. L2 is certainly a welcome departure from the popped-collar scene more typical of Georgetown haunts, but I wonder if Washington is really “there” yet when it comes to these exclusive, members-only spots.
Imperia Vodka ladies
Nikki (left) of Fly Lounge and a friend. Loved the bright colors and Nikki’s black Katie-esque bob.
Anne-Henley Beck and friend Val
Eric Brewer of Dissident Display
The L2 logo. The only tattoo I will ever have is the kind you apply with a beverage napkin and water…
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You make seven references to the exclusivity of the place. We get it. We’re impressed.
Well aren’t you special?!
A club for drinking and hooking-up? I’d much rather belong to a private library or a club in the city where I could dine and sleep when I leave my country home. Not that I have a country home.
Yeah, tattoos are so last year.
-rdhd
Oh calm down people.
I wasn’t saying that I’m Miss Exclusive. I’m just saying that L2 is billing itself that way and I think that the assembled crowd felt quite fancy-pants to have been invited to this lil soiree. Because if you make a big stink about how fabulous and exclusive something is, everyone believes that it is fabulous and exclusive and so they tend to feel fabulous and exclusive if they partake.
Uh oh. It looks like you violated one of the L2′s sacred rules. From the club’s rule book, at least as quoted by the web site you linked to, “No cameras or other recording equipment.” I wonder if the club let you take pictures as part of its “grassroots” (again quoted from the web site) campaign to promote itself, which would be kind of ironic.
Anyway, the whole exclusive club thing is not my cup of tea, but to each his own. Not sure if your post was truly meant to be kind of tongue in cheek, but it came across as a little crass.
Whoa. I’m actually slightly impressed with the fashion, specifically the ladies in photo deux.
I hate to reveal, however, that the vodka the girls are holding in photo un is not Imperia, but its cheaper younger brother, Russian Standard. It’s still a truly decent vodka, being straight from the Motherland and all, but it does retail for at least $10 less per bottle than the Imperia. That’s kind of not elite…but, eh, whatevs. (Wow, I just blew my own mind with my knowledge of vodka right there.)
Rachel you contradict yourself in your explanation. You say you’re not Miss Exclusive (already a little hard to swallow because you’ve gotten really heavy on the “Guess what private party I was invited to last night that you weren’t” posting lately), but then you go on and say that you were invited to a place that’s pumping exactly that and it made you and everyone else feel special to be there as a result. Don’t look now, but that means you’re sucking at the exclusivity teat.
They served Imperia and Russian standard. Both were great – as was Rachel.
I hope this doesn’t offend Rachel; it’s intended as a defense. I assume part of the reason she’s invited to these events is for publicity. So she can write about the parties from a self-deprecating standpoint, because maybe she doesn’t consider herself to be “one of them.”
It’s nothing revolutionary, but I think Anne-Henley Beck looks really sweet.
you were right…the fashion that night appears to be typical, boring. and there is way too much jersey up in there. there should be a ban on jersey worn after 5 pm or outside GOLD’s GYM.
So what if it’s exclusive? As long as it keeps people like that away from my favorite neighborhood bars, it’s fine with me! Exclusivity is reserved for people who think they are better than everyone else and no one likes snobs. Let them all hang out together!