[Minnie]

CC & Tyler - her response:

Where is the conference? I'm in Penn Quarter and there are a lot of great restaurants - Graffiato is a Top Chef restaurant - good pizza, great brussels sprouts (I know). If he is in Metro Center there is a new place, WTF, that just opened that is supposed to be great. But I need a neighborhood to give better direction. The Corcoran is a beautiful art museum on 17th that is off the "tourist" mall path. The Capitol is all new so that is worth a visit as well.

"Relatively affordable" just doesn't exist. Honestly, anywhere in NW should be safe to stay. If he wants to be near the Mall I would look in Penn Quarter, Metro Center and even the Hill. If you start getting out toward DuPont, that's kind of a hike to the Mall. Now, he could stay in VA - Ballston or Courthouse and take the Metro in to the city. Or if he stays in Rosslyn he could walk over the bridge into Georgetown. There is a crappy Hilton and the Key Bridge Marriott that shouldn't be half as much as his mortgage.