Wonderful Ambience with Restaurant & Web Directions Issues
Before I forget this part, let me encourage people who are going to walk to the hotel from Metro 
Center to NOT follow the directions on the hotel's Website, which say to turn left from the 11th & G exit toward New York Ave, etc. If you come out of that exit, you should turn right, not left, going north, not south. The incorrect directions on the Website ended up taking me to a dark and unsavory street, at 9:00 at night. So be sure you check how to get there on your own. In addition, the hotel told me that it is a 10-minute walk from Metro Center to the hotel; not unless you're an Olympian. Even without wrong turns, it's a good 15 to 20 minutes.
This is a beautiful old building in a renovated area of town that is awash with bars and restaurants, in a neighborhood with a CVS tucked 1 short block away, next to which is an independent coffeeshop (this is on 10th Street, just north of the hotel) with very good bagels and superb coffee. The hotel has terrific ambience, and my room, 306, was certainly designed and outfitted beautifully.
The night I arrived I wanted dinner, realized I would arrive a bit past the last seating at 9:30 (as I had followed the hotel's incorrect walking directions), called the hotel, and indeed they held a table for me. I ordered asparagus bisque and a Caesar salad with marinated Italian anchovies. The bisque was bland and I'm pretty sure had been microwaved, and the Caesar salad came with a heavy, overly-creamy sauce and no anchovies. When I asked about that, the kitchen sent out a plate of anchovies, I suppose for me to make up the rest of my salad. A new salad was not offered. The waiter / bartender, a very friendly and professional young man, was uncomfortable with this, but could do little to correct what the chef had done. 
When I told the operations manager about this the next day, he seemed to take it seriously, but I certainly did not get any discount on the meal when I checked out later that morning. Wasn't important for the money, but for the principle of the thing - the hotel boasts about the Zagat-rated restaurant - I would have thought that a small token discount would have been appropriate. Apparently not. I felt that the manager was insincere in his concern for the problem and the way that the kitchen solved it (which was very much, "oh, if you insist, here are the anchovies"), by not offering a small compensation as an apology.
I had a great rate - $99 plus tax on a Friday night - and would stay here again for that and for the ambience. But not for the restaurant, or proximity to the Metro, especially at night.