Article: River Club: Its Ship Has Come Back In

CHAMPAGNE. Caviar. Cab Calloway. Enough etched glass and ersatz Erte for an ocean liner, and former Reagan family chef Frank Ruta at the helm. It can only be mooring in America - it can only be the River Club in Georgetown.

Why it's taken Washington so long to rediscover the full-service supper club is something of a mystery. After all, the power discos that were networking central in the '80s have paled or failed, while New York's Rainbow Room and its imitators have made highly publicized comebacks. The Washington singles market, the other unofficial network, is older and more asset-savvy than ever.

With the charge card companies' rush to universal enlistment, the private membership card ...

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