Many of the “restaurants” at National Harbor stop serving lunch at 2:30 PM, so I decided to hold off until dinner, with a second cup of coffee tiding me over through the afternoon.
Downstairs in the Gaylord Hotel is Java Coast, a walk-in, take-out coffee shop that serves its drinks in paper cups.
It hurt to pay $3.75 for my medium Café Americano, but less so when I saw that many of the large espresso drinks here are priced at a stratospheric $6.00. Six dollars for a carryout coffee drink!