Anonymous
Post 06/22/2026 15:29     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
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Anonymous wrote:Ned’s is worth it if you need to take people to nice dinner a lot. The view from the founder’s room is great. I can certainly see the appeal: smooth logistics and it feels a little special/fun/different for guests.


Least favorite and tackiest club in the city.


It is quite beautiful. I would say Cosmos and Ned's are by far the most beautiful inside.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2026 13:20     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
Anonymous wrote:Have been to the U club and have been offered to join multiple times.

It's definitely the easiest club in DC to join and simultaneously the most striver with the weirdest groups of people.

It doesn't have the prestige of the Met, doesn't have inherent barriers like army navy and offers more than Georgetown so it attracts lot of late 20s to 30s people who want the "prestige" to be a member of a DC club but can't get into the Met and are really just transplants from Indiana who work for a trade association.

Don't believe me? Go there and spend a time by the bar and pool table and see the folks who come in and how they talk...

I say this with many friends and acquaintances who are members there...


DP. Disagree. You clearly do not know what you are speaking about. No one talks about the high level people that are frequently at the UC. That is the charm of the place. We go there frequently and have been surprised to see how many high level people in business and government frequent that place. UC members are very low key and leave them alone so they like going there. You are obviously not in the know. I can think of 5 vip types I have seen there just in the past week.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2026 20:42     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
Anonymous wrote:Ned’s is worth it if you need to take people to nice dinner a lot. The view from the founder’s room is great. I can certainly see the appeal: smooth logistics and it feels a little special/fun/different for guests.


I would never want to be a member of a club that counts scumbags like Kash Patel as a member.
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2026 11:10     Subject: Re:Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
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Anonymous wrote:There is also the Metropolitan Club, and for women there is the Sulgrave Club. I know people who are members of the various clubs. One benefit is reciprocity in other cities, and many of these clubs have sleeping rooms.

Sulgrave closed five years ago!! It's a luxury apt. building now.


Sulgrave Club is very much open. I am a member.


What's the demographic? I recently went to a dinner there. I'm a black woman and it didn't seem diverse at all.


It's not diverse and the average age must be 84. The House at 1229 is a much nicer club for women and it's diverse. It's also more beautiful inside.


Is Met even trying to court people below 65?


The Met Club has a multi year waiting list largely populated by 30 and 40 something young professionals.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 22:17     Subject: Re:Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
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Anonymous wrote:There is also the Metropolitan Club, and for women there is the Sulgrave Club. I know people who are members of the various clubs. One benefit is reciprocity in other cities, and many of these clubs have sleeping rooms.

Sulgrave closed five years ago!! It's a luxury apt. building now.


Sulgrave Club is very much open. I am a member.


What's the demographic? I recently went to a dinner there. I'm a black woman and it didn't seem diverse at all.


It's not diverse and the average age must be 84. The House at 1229 is a much nicer club for women and it's diverse. It's also more beautiful inside.


Is Met even trying to court people below 65?
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 10:19     Subject: Re:Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
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Anonymous wrote:There is also the Metropolitan Club, and for women there is the Sulgrave Club. I know people who are members of the various clubs. One benefit is reciprocity in other cities, and many of these clubs have sleeping rooms.

Sulgrave closed five years ago!! It's a luxury apt. building now.


Sulgrave Club is very much open. I am a member.


What's the demographic? I recently went to a dinner there. I'm a black woman and it didn't seem diverse at all.


It's not diverse and the average age must be 84. The House at 1229 is a much nicer club for women and it's diverse. It's also more beautiful inside.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2026 10:12     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
Anonymous wrote:Ned’s is worth it if you need to take people to nice dinner a lot. The view from the founder’s room is great. I can certainly see the appeal: smooth logistics and it feels a little special/fun/different for guests.


Least favorite and tackiest club in the city.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2026 17:30     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
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Anonymous wrote:Ned’s is worth it if you need to take people to nice dinner a lot. The view from the founder’s room is great. I can certainly see the appeal: smooth logistics and it feels a little special/fun/different for guests.


Great views, but MAGA vibe. Hard pass.


It’s a mix. I think it will change when the admin changes. I mean, they control the whole Republican party. They’re among us.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2026 17:26     Subject: Re:Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
My dad was in the Metropolitan Club. Lots of Metropolitan Club ties show up on TV news.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2026 17:13     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
Anonymous wrote:Ned’s is worth it if you need to take people to nice dinner a lot. The view from the founder’s room is great. I can certainly see the appeal: smooth logistics and it feels a little special/fun/different for guests.


Great views, but MAGA vibe. Hard pass.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2026 17:12     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
Ned’s is worth it if you need to take people to nice dinner a lot. The view from the founder’s room is great. I can certainly see the appeal: smooth logistics and it feels a little special/fun/different for guests.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2026 17:09     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
I think the best use of all these clubs is if you don’t want to meet people. If you just want to go there and take people there, they can be really handy and comfortable. The staff tends to be really great and caring compared to a restaurant.

Probably the exception is the university club if you want to play a sport there.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2026 17:08     Subject: Cosmos Club? Private Clubs in DC?
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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been to them all many times, and I’ve been a temporary member of the University club after family pressure. Cosmos is great. Not quite my speed, but I’ve enjoyed every experience there. It is a great intellectual meeting place. University Club is filled with incompetent douches who believe they are experts at everything because they listen to the monthly watered down 45 minute talks. The type that get ahead (or stay where they are) because they wear suits when nobody else does in hopes that nobody will notice the incompetence.


What about the Met Club?


DP but I have been to the Met Club and it is something else. I can't believe it still exists. I saw Tucker Carlson there when I went for lunch with a member. A black woman attended the lunch with me and was very uncomfortable.



That's on her. The Met Club has been accepting blacks since 1972.


NP. No, institutional racism is not “on” a Black woman. “Blacks,” really? You’re a problem.