Savage Breakfast Club Set to Tame Appetites During the Day
Before the hyped-up Washington Commanders-Philadelphia Eagles NFC playoff game on Jan. 26, Ashley Bradshaw wanted to grab a bite to eat and chat with a friend.
So, she and the friend traveled about two miles north from the Congress Heights neighborhood in Ward 8 to the Skyland Town Center in Ward 7 in Southeast to the latest addition to the Darrell Gaston-owned group of eateries, Savage Breakfast Club, to dine in.
“We live in the neighborhood, so we decided to go somewhere local,” said Bradshaw, 35. “I visited Kitchen Savages and had a great time. So, we wanted to check out Savage Breakfast Club.”
Savage Breakfast Club is located on the Marion Barry Avenue SE side of the Skyland Town Center. The establishment is located four miles east of Kitchen Savages on Marion Barry Avenue SE, which is also owned by Gaston.
The Southeast restaurant is open from 8 a.m.-7 p.m. each day except Monday.
Savage Breakfast Club is part of a growing number of eateries located in the burgeoning Skyland Town Center that includes Starbucks, &Pizza and Roaming Rooster.
Gaston on Savage Breakfast Club
Gaston, 38, is a former Ward 8 advisory neighborhood commissioner who has been known to address issues such as youth violence, stopping the ward’s homicide rate, neighborhood economic development and spurring entrepreneurship in areas east of the Anacostia River.
A graduate of Coppin State University and the Howard University School of Law, Gaston sidestepped a career in the legal field to pursue his desire to be a chef and restaurateur.
Kitchen Savages opened in 2023, with plans in the works for Savage Breakfast Club in the following year. Gaston managed to get assistance for his ventures through District government programs and investors.
The restaurateur said he wanted Savage Breakfast Club to take advantage of the popular trends nationally in offering customers brunch.
“That’s the plan, people should be able to eat breakfast food any time they want to,” Gaston told The Informer. “Savage Breakfast Club does offer lunch and dinner dishes even though breakfast is the focus.”
The Savage Breakfast Club Experience
The restaurant’s breakfast menu includes waffles and french toast, shrimp and grits, catfish and grits, chicken and waffles, jerk lamb and eggs, and a “Savage Benny,” a Chef’s Special, two English McMuffins topped with mini crab cakes and scrambled eggs and drizzled with hollandaise sauce.
A la carte items for breakfast include: egg rolls, tacos, creole grits, bacon, pork sausage, turkey sausage and cheesy grits.
“We are going to offer pancakes in the near future,” said Gaston. “We just have to get the equipment ready for that.”
Lunch and dinner items include jerk lamb chops, catfish and chicken dinners, honey blackened or crab stuffed salmon and “Jerk Rasta Pasta.”
Ancillary offerings are crab cake egg rolls, jerk lamb lollipops, crab fries, and “Savage Wings.”
Sides are collard greens, garlic mashed potatoes, spinach, french fries and macaroni and cheese.
Non-alcoholic beverages are offered. Patrons can also get salads and sandwiches including burgers as well as bagels that consist of bacon and egg, steak and egg, turkey bacon and egg, and sausage and egg with each offering an added slice of cheese.
The desserts offered are peach cobbler, banana pudding and chocolate cake.
Customers can eat in, carry out or have it delivered through food delivery companies. For those dining in, there are five sets of Black tables with Black chairs offered.
Like Bradshaw, Michael Outlaw came to Savage Breakfast Club to grab a meal before the game, but he ordered takeout. Looking around the restaurant, Outlaw remembers when Gaston first got started as a chef.
“He used to have a kitchen off of South Capitol Street,” Outlaw, 31, said of when Gaston cooked and sold food at the Good Food Market located in the Bellevue section of Ward 8. “The logo reminds me of buying food from him there.”
Outlaw said Savage Breakfast Club should be a success.
“The food is well-prepared and well-cooked,” he told The Informer. “Especially the catfish and the lobster. You must know what you are doing to prepare those.”