In Celebration of Busboys and Poets

One of the first, and I believe the best, discoveries we made upon arriving in the Washington DC area was a coffee house called Busboys and Poets.

Eli basically read the entire time we were at the restaurant.

Izzy read for a little while, but he couldn't resist appreciating the music and the art all around him, which pulled him away from reading.

This is much more than just a restaurant. It is a creative space where they sell art supplies, have poetry readings, teach children culture, and on top of that they serve coffee.

This poetry for kids program is one of the many cool things they do at Busboys and Poets. There's more than one location also.

I loved this place. It was so incredibly comfortable to hang out there, the servers were all cool, but also nice, and they didn't yell at us when our kids were so at home that they got a little loose with their behavior. The clientele seemed like a lot of older intellectuals and students.

The couches were great for hanging out on with small children.

Izzy can read in his head now!

Hannah could barely contain her at home feeling.

Izzy requested that I take his picture just like this.

Deep in thought while eating Izzy's food, rather than her own.

The music was great, the furniture was comfortable. The food was very good, and the coffee was nice and strong. They even had a back room named after Howard Zinn. I told Elijah he couldn't go back there because he wasn't dogmatic enough. 

Hannah doing the power fist in mimic of the posters on the wall.

She's gotten some of her technique from watching Jonas' play.

We fit in two visits to this place while we were in Maryland, the first time we had gotten there too late for breakfast, so we wanted to go back and see what the other menu was like. It was well worth the second visit.

We all brought work to do.

Eli working on his book report of the book he was reading the last time we were here.

I hope there will be a place like this where we are going. I could easily spend most mornings there.