The Quill Cocktails on St. Patrick’s Day will include an 1800’s Irish coffee recipe, a specialty four leaf clover Mojito that is made with fresh limes, a fresh watercress and tarragon mixed with Bluecoat gin and green tea liquor, and an Irish Whiskey tasting. The Irish Whiskey tasting will include: Jameson 12 years, Knappogue 12 years and Clontarf.

If that’s not enough, Quill is also offering great fun to the first 70 guests. They will be able to sample one of the homemade four leaf clover St. Patrick’s Day cookies. Quill is getting into the holiday spirit and looks forward to welcoming guests to do so as well.

Ron Reagan, Connie Milstein and Tammy Duckworth

Co-hosts at the gracious Jefferson Hotel for an elegant book party in honor of the launching of “My Father at 100: A Memoir” were Connie Milstein, her husband JC de La Haye Saint Hilaire, Tammy Haddad, Ted Greenberg, and Jon Meacham.

At the end of an interview conducted by the Pulitzer-Prize winning Jon Meacham, Ron Reagan, the 40th president’s son and author of the memoir, asked Mr. Meacham to please read aloud about the closing moments of his father’s life; words he had written but which proved too emotional for him to read himself:

“His eyes found the face of the woman who for more than half a century had formed the core of his private world. ‘I love you honey, I love you’ was all she could say. Was all she needed to say,” Meacham read from the book while a mesmerized and emotionally moved audience listened on.

Connie Milstein with Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Connie Milstein honored the former Prime Minister of England, Gordon Brown with a “swanky D.C. book party” at the Jefferson Hotel on Saturday last week.  Connie Milstein hosted the party along with her husband J.C. de La Haye St. Hilaire, and friends Tammy Haddad and Ted Greenberg. Ex-Prime Minister Gordon was there not only to be honored, wined and dined, but also to promote his new book, “Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization.”

Gordon Brown is still a Member of Parliament although no longer Prime Minister. He has continued to represent his district, which is a group of small mining villages in the south of Scotland. Although thought of as just a “backbencher” at home in England, traveling the world and discussing his book, Brown is considered a “global thinker” around the world.

Connie Milstein is the owner of the Jefferson Hotel where the party took place.

Chef Damon was trained in Michelin kitchens in the U.K. and under the watchful eye of Alain Ducasse in New York City.  Plume boasts a hand-painted mural of Monticello’s south vineyard on one wall, evoking the feel of Thomas Jefferson’s enjoyment of fine wines.  With Jefferson’s background in mind, Plume includes a wine cellar with over 1200 labels, spanning a dozen nationalities and going back as far as 1780.

While dining at Plume, you’ll also be able to enjoy the newly renovated look of the Jefferson Hotel, renovated by Ogden CAP Properties with Principal and Co-Founder Connie Milstein.

The Jefferson in Washington, D.C., whose recent renovations were directed by Ogden CAP Properties, LLC where Connie Milstein is the Principal and Co-Founder, is the first Relais & Chateaux hotel in Washington, D.C.  Certainly, they are thrilled to have this honor bestowed upon them and they welcome guests to their distinguished and outstanding hotel location.