A collection of stories and blogs from and about our kitchen at Eatonville Restaurant.
UPDATE (5/14/12): THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED Eatonville Restaurant’s Food & Folklore Dinner Series raises a Mint Julep to the Kentucky Derby with a 3-course prix fixe dinner and special presentation by artist Tim Hinton with his portraits of African American jockeys Tuesday, May 15 at 6:30 PM. “The Legends: A Tribute to Historical Black [...]
Note: This post is UPDATED Eatonville Restaurant’s Food & Folklore Dinner Series is excited to host a “Welcome to the Hilltop” dinner for Howard Dodson on Sunday, March 25 at 6:30 PM. Mr. Dodson retired in 2011 as the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem and recently relocated to [...]
With a wave of her blinking bling, N’awlins native Misty Brown crowned Food & Folklore diners “The Eatonville Krewe” on Fat Tuesday. Food & Folklore has made the Mardi Gras feast an annual tradition. After a second line into the Zora lounge, Misty’s performance took the crowd back, forward and everything in-between the traditions, history, [...]
Eatonville Restaurant’s Food & Folklore dinner series presents MARDI GRAS KREWE this Fat Tuesday – February 21. The prix fixe menu includes: –GATOR GUMBO SHOOTERS –CRAB CAKE with CREOLE AIOLI –CAJUN CHICKEN JAMBALAYA …and a KING CAKE SURPRISE! N’Awlins native MISTY BROWN will be our guide to Mardi Gras or Carnivale celebrations in the Caribbean [...]
Zorafest 2012 took a final bow with Lucy Anne Hurston, special guest for Food & Folklore. She was introduced by Food & Folklore’s former host (now full-time designer) Brian Evans. Hats, fans, stories, and costume changes. Lucy always takes the cake. Eatonville looks forward to seeing her again next year!
Decoyise “Dee” Brown joined J.C. Hayward in the WUSA9 kitchen today with the 2011 prize winning coconut cake. After the broadcast, Eatonville Restaurant got calls and walk-ins for coconut cake. Needless to say, the cake we brought to the studio was gone in minutes. Only 5 days left before entry forms are due (February 1, [...]
Sunday, January 29 at 6:30 PM Eatonville Restaurant’s Food & Folklore series presents “Fact or Folklore” with Lucy Anne Hurston. It’s always a party when Zora’s niece Lucy Anne Hurston is in the house. Zora Neale Hurston’s life and Zora’s stories often intertwine. Even fans may embellish. Lucy will set it straight expelling misconceptions [...]
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED Eatonville Restaurant’s annual Zorafest! is coming up January 28 – 29. If you can’t make it to the Zorafest in Eatonville, Florida, Eatonville Restaurant is your next best stop. Here’s what’s happenin’: Saturday, January 28, 11 AM – 4 PM – Craft Fair and Market in the upstairs loft of [...]
It’s a brand new year, and time for the winter installment of D.C. Restaurant Week (January 9 – 15, 2012). Eatonville Restaurant is serving a three-course menu for lunch and dinner with traditional customer favorites like Southern Fried Chicken and Fried Green Tomatoes, and more recent restaurant favorites like Jerk Marinated Tofu and Red Velvet [...]
Decoyise Brown, the 2011 Makes-Me-Wanna SHOUT! Coconut Cake Challenge winner, shared her techniques and tips for baking her winning coconut cake at Macy’s Home in Bethesda, MD (Saturday, December 10, 2011). Eatonville Restaurant‘s Executive Chef Oji Jaja and Pastry Chef Gregoria Contreras provided the baking logistics including breaking open a fresh coconut with a few [...]
