{"id":137,"date":"2016-02-22T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citywalkerapp.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:38:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:38:41","slug":"vital-power-breakfast-spots-to-know-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/vital-power-breakfast-spots-to-know-in-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital Power Breakfast Spots to Know in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city&#8217;s power brokers run in their own social circles and tend to congregate in the same neighborhoods. But when real business needs to go down, it&#8217;s time to skip the evening cocktails and have breakfast. Discussing political and financial rumors are par for the course at these early morning meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The establishments (yes, these places are &#8220;establishments&#8221;) where power breakfasts happen are clustered along a corridor. From Georgetown to Foggy Bottom to Lafayette Square, and then east to the Capitol Building, these spots are either at old-school cafes and restaurants or high-end eateries nside five-star hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Proximity to the city&#8217;s and country&#8217;s biggest institutions is key. Having breakfast close to those who are in-the-know is worth whatever it costs to order some poached eggs and toast.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"m-map__item-title\"><span class=\"m-map__title-number\">1<\/span>\u00a0Art and Soul<\/h3>\n<p>Launched by Oprah&#8217;s former chef Art Smith, this restaurant is a destination for both gay and straight power brokers to lock down deals and enjoy the restaurant&#8217;s famous chicken and waffles on weekends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/artsoul_Cropped.0.0-632x474.jpg\" alt=\"Art and Soul\" width=\"632\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.eater.com\/maps\/best-dc-power-breakfast-restaurants\" target=\"_blank\">See the full list on DC Eater<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city&#8217;s power brokers run in their own social circles and tend to congregate in the same neighborhoods. But when real business needs to go down, it&#8217;s time to skip the evening cocktails and have breakfast. Discussing political and financial rumors are par for the course at these early morning meetings. The establishments (yes, these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[162,158,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breakfast","category-food","category-washington-dc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pancakes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9buia-2d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}