Thank you to Bill Jones, Jr. for an excellent recommendation. I walked into the restaurant and knew immediately it was my kind of place. From the sofa seating area, to the blackboard menu, to my favorite Langston Hughes poem silk-screened on the back of servers’ shirts, to the delicious tofu scramble, to the cozy bookstore (where I purchased my breakfast read, the Utne Reader, and after breakfast snagged a copy of Alice Walker’s The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers), Busboys and Poets was all that, and then some.
iPhone shot on the way in . . .
Another iPhone shot – of the kitchen and pass-bar.
“Real” camera photos below . . .
Most of the wait staff at the pass-bar below the chalkboard.
Mark, our waiter.
Back to the hotel via the Metro – Green Line to Gallery Place, transfer to the Red Line to Metro Center.
Carissa Snedeker Photography 
I love the many photos to give us a glimpse of what you see. Also like the metro line. Keep it up!
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Thanks, Rita. I’m so busy with everything that I barely have time to check in or post, let alone visit all the blogs I follow. I hope they all forgive me. I’ll be doing a lot of catching up when I’m back.
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I’m glad you liked it. I would have been bummed if you hadn’t. By the way, I’ve had Mark before. 🙂
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Everyone was great. Mark was super. Thanks for the rec!
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Great photos! The large menu board is my favorite! 😉
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Thank you, Tania!
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That really looked like a great restaurant. 🙂
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It was. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks.
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Reading and looking at this post I get remembered (again) how much I miss citylife sometimes, even if it has been small cities..
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I completely understand. I miss it very much too.
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