Types: American [1], Eclectic [2], Seafood [3], Southern [4], Brunch [5], Crab House / Crab-Cakes [6], Lunch [7]
Hours: Mon - Fri 11:30am - Midnight, Sat & Sun 11am - Midnight; Brunch Sat & Sun 11am - 2:30pm
Phone: (202) 332-9672
website [8]
Eatonville Restaurant is a Southern-inspired restaurant opened in 2009 by Andy Shallal, founder of Busboys and Poets. Located in the historic U Street Corridor at 2121 14th Street, NW, The Zora Neale Hurston inspired restaurant is in the heart of where Hurston and fellow writer/poet Langston Hughes enjoyed a lively social and cultural life during the early 1920s. Eatonville pays homage to Hurston's DC connections including her time as a student at Howard University.. It is named for her childhood hometown in Florida, the setting of her most famous novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God".