The Room
What the night actually looks like.
Corporate receptions, presentations, private dinners and full buyouts — three distinct spaces or the entire building, up to 180 guests. Family-style menus from $40 a head, published bar packages, and an events team that replies within the hour.
Corporate & offsites · Holiday parties · Private dinners · Birthdays · Wedding receptions · Baby showers · NGO & foundation events · Full buyouts
Each floor runs its own music, so a presentation upstairs and a DJ downstairs can happen at the same time. Nero sits at 1207 19th St NW, minutes from Dupont Circle and Farragut West.
Our most open floor plan and the room corporate planners pick. A projector and screen for the deck, tables that move to the walls when it's time to dance, and the self-dispensing wine machine as the centerpiece.
The darker, more intimate room downstairs. Low light, a cocktail-forward bar and the kind of atmosphere people remember. Most flexible — and best value — midweek.
The ground-floor room and the full cocktail program. It's rarely booked on its own — most often it comes as part of taking the whole building, where it becomes the arrival and reception space.
Every room, exclusively yours. Guests move between three distinct atmospheres across the night — reception at the main bar, presentation in the wine bar, the after-party in Sabina — without anyone leaving the building.
Most of our events run on a host tab or individual tabs — packages come into their own for large corporate groups where the budget needs to be fixed in advance. Both are easy; we'll tell you which fits your headcount.
Most venues make you inquire to find out what it costs, then surprise you with the fees at the end. Move the numbers below and see the real total — tax, event fee and gratuity included.
An estimate, not a quote. Your final number depends on the room, the day, the time and what you want the night to be — a Saturday buyout prices differently from a Tuesday dinner in Sabina. Bar spend on a tab or consumption basis isn't included above. All menu prices are exclusive of 10% DC sales tax, 5% event fee and 18% gratuity.
The menu and bar prices above are real and they don't move. What does move is everything around them — which is why your quote is built for your event rather than pulled off a shelf.
Sabina on a Saturday is not Sabina on a Tuesday. The wine bar prices differently from a full buyout.
Weeknights are our most flexible. Saturday nights in December are our least, and Sundays carry a premium — we open specially and bring in a full team.
Minimums move with the room and the date. Larger groups often unlock better per-head economics.
Seated dinner versus a standing reception, a DJ, projection, a mixed platter format — each shapes staffing and setup.
Parties often go past the time they booked, which is welcome — it just adds to the final bill. Better said now than discovered later.
In the wine bar. Bring a deck, a slideshow or a photo montage — plug in and run it.
Bring your own DJ. Tables move to the walls and the room becomes a dance floor.
Each space runs independently. A presentation on one floor and a party on another, at the same time.
Florists, photographers, decorators, DJs — bring the people you want. Setup usually starts 30 minutes before doors.
Seated dinner, standing reception, presentation rows, or a mix as the night moves. Furniture is not fixed.
A self-dispensing wall of 24 rare wines in 2, 3 and 5 oz pours. It becomes the thing guests talk about.
1207 19th St NW. A parking garage less than a block away, plus street parking if you're lucky. Dupont Circle and Farragut West both walkable.
Every banquet menu is available any day. Sundays we're normally closed, so we open specially and staff the kitchen and bar for you — which suits larger events and is priced accordingly.
Planning an event is usually a job someone handed you on top of your actual job. These are the four places venues tend to make that harder.
Not two days. Inquiries that land during business hours get a real reply from a real person the same hour, with your date confirmed and any questions we need answered. The full priced proposal follows the same day.
Menu prices are published on this page, and so are the 10% tax, 5% event fee and 18% gratuity. Nothing appears at signature that wasn't here first.
The same person from your first email through to the last round, so you never re-explain your event to someone who hasn't read the thread.
Outside vendors, your own cake, a specific layout, a Sunday. Start from yes — tell us what you need and we'll tell you honestly if it can't be done.
Date, headcount, and roughly what you're picturing. If you don't know the room yet, say so — we'll recommend one.
A real person, not an autoresponder, with availability and the questions that actually change your quote.
Room, menu, bar approach and one all-in number, back with you the same day. We hold your date while you decide.
Menu selections, layout, vendors, timing. Then you show up and we run it.
Two minutes to fill out, and a real reply within the hour during business hours.
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