Mardi Gras Day

One thousand pounds of beans are on their way from New Orleans to Washington, DC for Mardi Gras Day. The beans will feed unemployed hospitality industry workers and the staff of twenty-five restaurants who jumped in to help distribute the meals, New Orleans-style. The event founders are the co-chairs for the annual Mardi Gras Extravaganza celebration held in DC who most recently teamed up to feed the National Guard and First Responders during the Presidential Inauguration. This year, the team has enlisted chef Erik Bruner-Yang of Maketto and the Power of 10 Initiative to put together this charitable event, spanning across the DMV. The bean-efit takes on the theme of Mardi Gras, throwing beans instead of beads to support unemployed restaurant workers in the surrounding neighborhoods of Washington, DC and Virginia. On Fat Tuesday from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. the first one-hundred unemployed restaurant workers to visit any of the twenty-five participating restaurants will receive a bean dish for free. Hook Hall will be distributing one-hundred, one-pound red bean packages on Lundi Gras, the Monday before Mardi Gras. For more information, please click here.