Shaw is one of the city’s hippest enclaves, with craft cocktail bars, beer gardens, indie clothing boutiques and trendy global restaurants. This historically African-American neighborhood is home to the 1910 Howard Theatre, where jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald and D.C. local Duke Ellington once performed. Today the venue hosts all sorts of music concerts and other events.

Mount Vernon Square is a lively and ever-growing area of Northwest DC that is located south of Logan Circle and north of Chinatown and Penn Quarter. The neighborhood is dotted with hotels, sleek bars and upscale New American, Italian and Spanish restaurants.