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Culinary Heritage

Edgar Bar & Kitchen

Located in The Mayflower Hotel, Autograph Collection, Edgar Bar & Kitchen features bold, American brassiere cuisine and authentically crafted cocktails. Edgar pays homage to Washington, D.C.’s great power players in name (a famous Edgar dined here daily), and with its intimate spaces, attentive service and see-and-be-seen atmosphere. Entertain clients, host a private party or plan a memorable happy hour in this exclusive Dupont Circle restaurant. Mornings find Edgar transformed into a breakfast hot spot joined by an accessible grab-and-go, Mayflower Mornings by Edgar, serving morning specialties for those on the fly.

Tolson Bird Bar

Step into Tolson Bird Bar, named after J. Edgar Hoover’s Assistant FBI Director, Clyde Tolson. Feast on delectable fried chicken, crispy chicken skins with hot honey, and creamy mac n cheese. Step it up with the “Bucket Experience” – a bucket of fried chicken with caviar and Champagne. Tolson Bird Bar also boasts delicious cocktails cleverly inspired by the Tolson story. Try a refreshing gin, kiwi, and cucumber concoction called the “551K”-the amount of Hoover’s estate left to Tolson.

Edgar Bar & Kitchen

Located in The Mayflower Hotel, Autograph Collection, Edgar Bar & Kitchen features bold, American brassiere cuisine and authentically crafted cocktails. Edgar pays homage to Washington, D.C.’s great power players in name (a famous Edgar dined here daily), and with its intimate spaces, attentive service and see-and-be-seen atmosphere. Entertain clients, host a private party or plan a memorable happy hour in this exclusive Dupont Circle restaurant. Mornings find Edgar transformed into a breakfast hot spot joined by an accessible grab-and-go, Mayflower Mornings by Edgar, serving morning specialties for those on the fly.

Tolson Bird Bar

Step into Tolson Bird Bar, named after J. Edgar Hoover’s Assistant FBI Director, Clyde Tolson. Feast on delectable fried chicken, crispy chicken skins with hot honey, and creamy mac n cheese. Step it up with the “Bucket Experience” – a bucket of fried chicken with caviar and Champagne. Tolson Bird Bar also boasts delicious cocktails cleverly inspired by the Tolson story. Try a refreshing gin, kiwi, and cucumber concoction called the “551K”-the amount of Hoover’s estate left to Tolson.

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a room with a brick wall and brown couches
a group of people eating food on newspaper
Recipes

Dishes with a backstory

Savor our kitchen's signature recipes, each dish a flavorful reflection of our hotel's storied past.

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Signature Banana Nut Bread at The Mayflower Hotel

The Mayflower Hotel has been making banana bread since the 1950s and it has become one of the hotel’s signature items, used as a turn down amenity, served in the hotel’s restaurant Edgar, and even as a dessert at many weddings held in the hotel. Fun fact: The Mayflower Hotel uses over 20,000 bananas each year to bake over 10,000 loaves of banana bread. 

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