The new Takoma location of Busboys and Poets restaurant (235 Carroll Street NW) opens to the public in a soft opening on February 15, 2015. The restaurant will be open for dinner 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm during its soft open. For more information about the theme of this location, read the Washington Post’s feature.
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More area bookstores on the horizon
Book lovers, soon enough we will have a few area bookstores to satisfy our book needs. In July, Barnes & Noble opened the Catholic University bookstore in Monroe Street Market. Now the Washington Post brings us news that the forthcoming Brookland and Takoma locations of Busboys and Poets restaurants will also be home to satellite locations of the Politics and Prose bookstore. For readers unfamiliar with P & P’s operation, in addition to carrying a wide selection of titles, the independent bookstore often hosts author discussions and writing classes. P & P will operate bookstores at all of the Busboys locations except the flagship location at 14th & V Street NW, which will continue to be operated by Teaching for Change. The Brookland Busboys and Poets is expected to open next month.
Edit: I neglected to mention Upshur Street Books, which recently opened on November 1 in Petworth (827 Upshur Street NW)
September 20: WABA Walking Tour of Northern Phase of MBT
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association is hosting a 2.2 mile walking tour of the planned northern phase of the Metropolitan Branch Trail (MBT) on Saturday, September 20, 2014. The tour starts at Fort Totten metro station at 1:00pm and will end at Takoma metro station around 3:30 pm. Click here for more information and to register.
It’s official: Busboys & Poets going to Takoma (and Brookland)
This post has been updated
The Washington Post breaks the official news that Busboys & Poets owner has signed a lease to bring the restaurant to the new Carroll St. development in Takoma. Also reported is that the owner is negotiating to open a sixth location in Brookland.
This is semi-good news for Riggs Park (remember what we mentioned about being sandwiched between these two neighborhoods in this post). Both Takoma and Brookland are sort of walkable (or certainly bikeable) from Riggs Park, so it looks like in a couple of years we’ll get to have our pick of two Busboys to patronize.
One instructive point from the article is owner Andy Shallal’s statement that he received emails from Takoma residents soliciting him to bring his restaurant to the neighborhood. He said that he likes to go into areas that lack community gathering spaces, certainly an issue for Riggs Park. As Fort Totten Square and Art Place at Fort Totten come online, it’s worth thinking about what kind of outreach, communication, organizing, and consensus building the community can do to really showcase the community we have here surrounding Fort Totten and to make sure we get the types of amenities we really want, so as not to be blindsided again like we were with the introduction of the big box store to come.
Next Stop...Riggs Park 