If Washington D.C.’s the Dupont Circle turns a deeper shade of green for St. Patrick’s Day than most hotels, there’s a good reason.
First, it’s the sole American property of the Doyle Collection, a Dublin-based company with seven other upscale hotels in Ireland and England. As such, it fully indulges in Irish Heritage Month (also known as March) with offerings that include ticket packages to see Riverdance 30 at the Kennedy Center and a family-style Irish Sunday Supper in the hotel’s posh restaurant, the Pembroke. Indeed, the hotel’s Emerald Isle cred is so solid that when Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin visits the White House today to gift a bowl of shamrock to President Trump (a tradition that dates back to the Truman administration), he’ll spend the night at the Dupont Circle.
Naturally, the festivities extend to libations. In the runup to St. Patrick’s Day, the bar was taken over by the Sidecar, the celebrated cocktail destination inside the Doyle Collection’s Dublin flagship, the Westbury, and its World Cocktail Competition–winning general manager, Oisin Kelly. With Kelly behind the bar, we requested a St. Paddy’s–worthy cocktail, and he obliged with his own High Street Hustle, inspired by a busy Dublin thoroughfare. Sláinte!