Happy New Year

2020 has been a year. Take time to say ✌︎ Peace Out 2020 ✌︎ and celebrate the New Year with those dear to you. Safely ring in 2021 at home with your loved ones and Busboys and Poets!

Thursday, December 31, 2020 – New Year’s Eve

1 NYEPartyPlatters

For a limited time, order a party platter of Busboys and Poets Signature Wings Inferno Or a Full Pan of Nachos (Vegan or Regular) for just $50.

Complimentary Party Favors with all To-Go orders (while supplies last)

Add on a Celebration Basket to your To Go order for just $25. The basket includes a bottle of Brut, your choice of Busboys and Poets Carrot Cake, Cheesecake or Chocolate Cake, NYE party favors, and sparklers! 

NYEBubblySpecial

Friday, January 1, 2021 – New Year’s Day

PoetsinPajamasNYD 2

New Year’s Day Poets in Pajamas Brunch 

It’s that time of year again to rummage through your closet for your most stylish pajamas for our annual New Year’s Day Pajama Brunch, with a twist! Join us virtually or at one of our locations to experience a hybrid poetry showcase with some of the best poets from near and far. They will perform, in their pajamas, poetry around the theme “Filling the Void”. We will fill the Busboys and Poets spaces on New Year’s Day with poetry, love, and hope.  12 PM – 2 PM on facebook.com/busboysandpoets/live

Brunch will be served until 3 PM.

Family Sized Brunch (To Go)

Up to 8 Servings – 79.99   Our kitchen kindly requests a minimum of 2 hours advance notice for your order.

French Toast Meal

Scrambled Eggs (with or without cheese)

Choice of 2 Meats

Home Fries

Fresh Fruit

Vegan ‘Egg’ Scramble with Vegan Sausage

Home Fries

Fresh Fruit

Home Fries

Toast

$15 Mimosa Special  (available for to go or patio dining )

Bottle of Brut and Large Fresh Squeezed OJ 

Bring Prosperity Into the New Year

Order your large size, ready to eat Black Eyed Peas or Collard Greens for $10

“Southern U.S. tradition dictates that eating black eyed peas on New Year’s will bring luck and good fortune. Often served with cabbage or collard greens (meant to represent that dolla dolla bill, y’all), black eyed peas are seen as symbolic stand-ins for coins and financial prosperity. So if you want to make it rain this new year, you had better eat up all these delicious beans, ” Delish, December 2020

ORDER.BUSBOYSANDPOETS.COM

The Making of Busboys and Poets

A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets

We’re proud to announce A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets, the new memoir from our CEO and Founder, which reveals the vision, challenges, and triumphs behind opening Busboys and Poets. Packed with misadventures, unexpected triumphs, and insights on race, business and politics, Andy Shallal’s memoir takes us on a “How I Built … Continued

PHOTO 2024 02 01 07 10 14

For Langston Hughes on His 123 Birthday

Speech given on February 1, 2024 in Havana, Cuba In 1927 Langston Hughes walked into a Cuba amid an emerging community of artists, intellectuals, and radicals.  He saw a “sunrise in a new land [– a day – in his words]sic – full of brownskin surprises, and hitherto unknown contacts in a world of color.”  … Continued

PALESTINE WEEK 1920 x 1080 px 2

Palestine Week 2024

January 18, 2024 – January 25, 2024 In keeping with our ongoing mission of uplifting racial and cultural connections, Busboys and Poets is hosting Palestine Week (January 18 through January 25, 2024). This week-long series of events will offer a diverse range of programming featuring Palestinian food, music, dance, poetry, discussions, and other enriching events. … Continued

angela

Angela Davis coming to 450K

With Angela Davis coming to Busboys and Poets – 450K next month, we thought to re-read the full transcript of her iconic speech at the Women’s March in 2017.  Be sure to mark your calendars for October 11th, 2018 at 6:30pm.  Food and drinks will be available throughout the event and books will be available … Continued

beyza ozer

Split This Rock Poem of the Week: beyza ozer

When I Kiss You, A Casket Opens  — after june 12, 2016 this is not terrorism this is toxic masculinity  made in the USA when my mother hears  about orlando she doesn’t look at me the next day is three years  to the night we first kissed  & it actually meant something  to both of us … Continued

What to read: Celebrating National Poetry Month at Busboys and Poets

What to read: Celebrating National Poetry Month at Busboys and Poets

April in DC – a time to welcome the sun, greet the cherry blossoms and relish the city’s many parks in bloom. April is also National Poetry Month, and being home to a vibrant literary community, DC celebrates every year with a diverse offering of events, readings and books to savor. Here at Busboys and … Continued