
Allegory
Eaton Hotel
1201 K St NW,, DC 20005
NO RESERVATIONS as we operate on a first come, first served basis
Monday - Thursday: 5:00PM - 11:30PM
Friday & Saturday: 5:00PM - 1:30 AM
Allegory is hidden behind a nondescript door in the Eaton DC’s Progress Library. A one-of-a-kind work of art by Erik Thor Sandberg spans the bar. It depicts Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, but the deeper, underlying meaning is that the classic tale is told through the eyes of Ruby Bridges—the first Black child to desegregate the William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.