Wow! I appreciate your honesty. If I'm going to be honest one of the things I like about both of you is you are extremely generous with your reviews. Even places that just aren't that great you will still give them a very warm and friendly review. So when you go to a place and you say you won't go back? That means a lot. At any rate, thanks for all you do. Sorry that one didn't work out.
Thank you! We definitely aren’t on here to ruin restaurants and people’s business so we try not to bad mouth most of them. This one had lots of potential but when you are on vacation, spending over 3 hours on food just isn’t worth it. The history on the place is really neat! We appreciate all the support!
Nice place and so big! I worked at the Commerce Department at NW 14th St. and Constitution MANY years ago. They were building the metro when I lived there. I always took the bus. When we went back to visit in 1988 we rode the metro. Looking forward to your DC adventures!
I absolutely love The Hamilton. It is also a great place to go see live music. Their Smoked Trout Dip is some of the best fish dip I have had outside of Florida. You definitely picked a good place to eat!
In this video I remember years ago when I was working at a restaurant near 9th ave midtown Manhattan called WALKERS and it had 4 dining rooms and I was the SOUS CHEF/CHEF De CUISINE and what I did was hit every category on the specials menu plus the current menu,and the people absolutely loved it because you have your regulars plus walk-ins and the place was jammed, very busy with 20 waiter's and waitresses plus 2 bartenders and only 2 in the kitchen plus the dishwasher but this place looks massive, but when I worked in the hotels we had one main dining room plus 4 private dining rooms and the main kitchen was huge and I remember when I looked at the WALDORF ASTORIA,and TAVERN ON THE GREEN, huge kitchen and massive dining room and at the time TAVERN ON THE GREEN was the highest grossing establishment in the United States hugh numbers
Our son lives in Alexandria and works in DC. So when we’ve visited for Thanksgiving we’ve gone to Hamilton for their thanksgiving meal. It’s always been good. The brussels sprouts are excellent. Looks too cold! Too early for the cherry trees?
Oh wow! What a great place to live. We loved Alexandria! Yeah it was way cold!! And we should have tried the Brussels. It was a little early for the cherry trees but we saw some of them!
Just stumbled across this review. The Hamilton demonstrates what’s wrong with Washington DC vs. most of the country. K street is best-known for the large numbers of corporate offices where the lobbyists are based. Places like The Hamilton, survive with average food, overpriced and poor service, because most patrons there on big, fat expense accounts. They are in no hurry because their work day starts whenever and surely some of those tables is where decision-makers, like congressional staffers or influential staffers in the Department of Whatever are getting an earful on things that should be written in laws or regulations. The common, hard-working federal employees never are seen there.
Was a navy cook…..all meals on time..we had 3 cooks for a crew of 500…..2 shifts of cooks……it’s amazing what people stand for when going out…a hamburger is a hamburger…..I guess we try to impress people going out, what a waste of time………
Wow! I appreciate your honesty. If I'm going to be honest one of the things I like about both of you is you are extremely generous with your reviews. Even places that just aren't that great you will still give them a very warm and friendly review.
So when you go to a place and you say you won't go back? That means a lot.
At any rate, thanks for all you do. Sorry that one didn't work out.
Thank you! We definitely aren’t on here to ruin restaurants and people’s business so we try not to bad mouth most of them. This one had lots of potential but when you are on vacation, spending over 3 hours on food just isn’t worth it. The history on the place is really neat! We appreciate all the support!
Nice place and so big! I worked at the Commerce Department at NW 14th St. and Constitution MANY years ago. They were building the metro when I lived there. I always took the bus. When we went back to visit in 1988 we rode the metro. Looking forward to your DC adventures!
That is so cool that you worked there! It was such a fun place to visit and we plan on going back and doing more!
I absolutely love The Hamilton. It is also a great place to go see live music. Their Smoked Trout Dip is some of the best fish dip I have had outside of Florida. You definitely picked a good place to eat!
Thanks! Need to try the Trout Dip. The building was really cool!
In this video I remember years ago when I was working at a restaurant near 9th ave midtown Manhattan called WALKERS and it had 4 dining rooms and I was the SOUS CHEF/CHEF De CUISINE and what I did was hit every category on the specials menu plus the current menu,and the people absolutely loved it because you have your regulars plus walk-ins and the place was jammed, very busy with 20 waiter's and waitresses plus 2 bartenders and only 2 in the kitchen plus the dishwasher but this place looks massive, but when I worked in the hotels we had one main dining room plus 4 private dining rooms and the main kitchen was huge and I remember when I looked at the WALDORF ASTORIA,and TAVERN ON THE GREEN, huge kitchen and massive dining room and at the time TAVERN ON THE GREEN was the highest grossing establishment in the United States hugh numbers
Wow! Thanks for sharing your memories and thanks so much for watching!
Our son lives in Alexandria and works in DC. So when we’ve visited for Thanksgiving we’ve gone to Hamilton for their thanksgiving meal. It’s always been good. The brussels sprouts are excellent. Looks too cold! Too early for the cherry trees?
Oh wow! What a great place to live. We loved Alexandria! Yeah it was way cold!! And we should have tried the Brussels. It was a little early for the cherry trees but we saw some of them!
Old Ebbitt Grill used to be good. Haven’t been in DC for 36 years but it looks the same.
We heard the same thing that it used to be much better. Sure over time, it has gone down a little bit. We loved DC!
Just stumbled across this review. The Hamilton demonstrates what’s wrong with Washington DC vs. most of the country. K street is best-known for the large numbers of corporate offices where the lobbyists are based. Places like The Hamilton, survive with average food, overpriced and poor service, because most patrons there on big, fat expense accounts.
They are in no hurry because their work day starts whenever and surely some of those tables is where decision-makers, like congressional staffers or influential staffers in the Department of Whatever are getting an earful on things that should be written in laws or regulations. The common, hard-working federal employees never are seen there.
Interesting. Thanks for the info!
You don’t go there for the food. Water comes out of the tap, directly from the Potomac via the WSSC!
It was some good water! Yeah it seems more of a social place. Glad we at least went!
Thanks for the rour
You are welcome!
Looks like a nightmare! The noise alone is so off putting I would never eat there. The food looks mediocre at best. Not a great place to
Yeah it was very loud and took forever. We are glad we got to try it at least!
Was a navy cook…..all meals on time..we had 3 cooks for a crew of 500…..2 shifts of cooks……it’s amazing what people stand for when going out…a hamburger is a hamburger…..I guess we try to impress people going out, what a waste of time………
We appreciate your service! Thank you!
Maybe the basement is for a Jazz Brunch
Possibly! It seems like they used it for music or something!
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Big TV screen in any restaurant is a big red flag for me.
Oh why is that?
@@thealtemlife The venue becomes akin to the nuance of dining in a bowling alley.
Very long waits ruin any dining experience for me. Just makes me cranky.
That is true! Not fun to wait all day on a place!
Owned by the Clyde’s Group…formerly the Garfunkel’s Department Store…like the Old Ebbitt around the corner, big, noisy and filled with tourists.
Thanks for the info! They seem to own a few restaurants there.
Much too expensive for what they give you. It is also too crowded.
Agreed! And it took forever lol
Sounded very loud and not a lot of bang for your buck!
That is accurate!
That’s not expensive for 4. And an hour for entrees after apps is not long either. This isn’t fast food. It’s dining.
Definitely the longest spot we had to wait on food in DC and the others weren’t fast food either.
Way too noisy for my taste. Thank you for the video.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching!
They have to take cash.
Interesting!
not 1 caucasian staff member...FJB
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Over rated!
Would have to agree on that!
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Thanks!