How to be a member of the cosmos club?

[Anonymous]

I think the food is good! Agreed not top DC restaurant food, but good country club kind of food.

My husband is a member. They definitely want younger members and there is a publishing requirement. You do need to be sponsored and I think also a couple of recommendations from members, at least that used to be the case.

[Anonymous]

I was there recently as a guest - and the membership is overwhelmingly old, white, and male. If there is a push to diversifying the membership, they need to try harder, and not just recruit younger versions of themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the food is good! Agreed not top DC restaurant food, but good country club kind of food.

My husband is a member. They definitely want younger members and there is a publishing requirement. You do need to be sponsored and I think also a couple of recommendations from members, at least that used to be the case.

Do you know how much of their revenue is dues vs weddings? Are weddings the core business?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the food is good! Agreed not top DC restaurant food, but good country club kind of food.

My husband is a member. They definitely want younger members and there is a publishing requirement. You do need to be sponsored and I think also a couple of recommendations from members, at least that used to be the case.

Do you know how much of their revenue is dues vs weddings? Are weddings the core business?

Why do you ask?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the food is good! Agreed not top DC restaurant food, but good country club kind of food.

My husband is a member. They definitely want younger members and there is a publishing requirement. You do need to be sponsored and I think also a couple of recommendations from members, at least that used to be the case.

I don't believe this is accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the food is good! Agreed not top DC restaurant food, but good country club kind of food.

My husband is a member. They definitely want younger members and there is a publishing requirement. You do need to be sponsored and I think also a couple of recommendations from members, at least that used to be the case.

I don't believe this is accurate.

I'm pretty sure it is - the membership is almost all (white, male) academics and journalists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the food is good! Agreed not top DC restaurant food, but good country club kind of food.

My husband is a member. They definitely want younger members and there is a publishing requirement. You do need to be sponsored and I think also a couple of recommendations from members, at least that used to be the case.

Do you know how much of their revenue is dues vs weddings? Are weddings the core business?

Why do you ask?

I’m just curious. I’m in the events industry. It’s a beautiful venue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the food is good! Agreed not top DC restaurant food, but good country club kind of food.

My husband is a member. They definitely want younger members and there is a publishing requirement. You do need to be sponsored and I think also a couple of recommendations from members, at least that used to be the case.

I don't believe this is accurate.

I am the one who posted the above, and could well be wrong. It was the case as of several years ago - might have changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Cosmos Club is, at least, much cooler than the Society of the Cincinnati across the street which is a club started by some Revolutionary War veteran officers where membership is passed down via primogeniture so I guess they just…missed the point of the war?

Society of the Cincinnati is an incredible building. One of my classmate's family are members and they hosted her graduation party there. Totally mind boggling. Less fussy/superfluous than the Cosmos Club. It feels more like a museum of power and influence, but also gorgeously beautiful.

It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend dropping by.

[Anonymous]

The easiest way to get invited to join is to become an Ambassador.

I am personally more interested in how people get to join the Metropolitan Club and who those people are.

[Anonymous]

I've been invited to join twice, and I declined both times. The best thing about it, as I saw things, was to eat lunch there with interesting people. (As a resident of the DMV, I had no need for the hotel rooms.) However, for me, as a government employee, I would have had to take a cab across town back and forth to DuPont Circle, and my employer (and co-workers) were fairly strict about a lunch HOUR. I agreed with that. The networking potential was pretty amazing, I'll admit, but I did not feel it was worth the expense and hassle. I was, and still am, happy with a ham sandwich for lunch, often at my desk!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But basically it’s a wedding venue, a small private hotel and a fancy cafeteria for accomplished seniors.

No lie. But for those purposes, I kind of love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been invited to join twice, and I declined both times. The best thing about it, as I saw things, was to eat lunch there with interesting people. (As a resident of the DMV, I had no need for the hotel rooms.) However, for me, as a government employee, I would have had to take a cab across town back and forth to DuPont Circle, and my employer (and co-workers) were fairly strict about a lunch HOUR. I agreed with that. The networking potential was pretty amazing, I'll admit, but I did not feel it was worth the expense and hassle. I was, and still am, happy with a ham sandwich for lunch, often at my desk!

Thank you for your public service and dedication !

[Anonymous]

Maybe to diversify and become more relevant - and retain the vibe of a congenial bygone era - they could plug themselves as a bipartisan oasis where powerful people from Both sides of the aisle can comfortably mingle.

It might help to heal the partisan divide in DC if top thinkers from both parties socialized more as they did decades ago before the Newt Gingrich militarization of GOP antics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the food is good! Agreed not top DC restaurant food, but good country club kind of food.

My husband is a member. They definitely want younger members and there is a publishing requirement. You do need to be sponsored and I think also a couple of recommendations from members, at least that used to be the case.

I don't believe this is accurate.

I'm pretty sure it is - the membership is almost all (white, male) academics and journalists.

Most of the members I know are/were lawyers. They had political jobs at some point in their career.