Start the new year with Pooh Bear Buffet night at Reliable Source, Jan. 18

National Press Club members and their guests are invited to attend a special Pooh Bear Buffet night on Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Reliable Source at 5:30 p.m.

The price of the buffet is $24 (plus tax and gratuity) for Club members and $28 for nonmembers. Reservations are recommended. To reserve a space, please contact the Reliable Source at [email protected] or call 202-662-7443.

Members are encouraged to invite their children and grandchildren to this event. Buffet prices for youngsters are reasonably priced. And there is an added bonus: any child 10 years old or younger who comes to dinner with a stuffed Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl or Tigger will eat for free.

A photographer will be on hand to capture the spirit of the night. Costumes are also welcome.

Menu for Winnie the Pooh buffet

To start the meal: Piglets in a blanket

Salads

Rabbit’s favorite green salad with carrots, cucumbers and other garden vegetables

Owl’s highly intelligent salad with pasta salad with chestnut tree nuts

Kanga’s motherly grated carrot salad with Roo-sins

Entrees

Pooh’s “Oh bother” hunny coated chicken fingers

Piglet” “ Oh d-d-d-dear” stuffed Haycorns with pecans, dates, apricots, rice and apple glaze (vegan)

“Fancy a little Schmackerl” Macaroni and cheese (vegetarian)

587 Heffalump (counting) sheep lamb stew

Tigger’s “ridickerus” “Hoo hoo hoo hoo” malt extract glazed butternut squash

Eeyore’s sad donkey ears sautéed (thistle) greens with spinach [“Thanks for noticing”]

Dessert

Hunny and condensed milk “what’s for lunch” bread pudding with hunny sauce

Christopher Robin’s birthday cake

Hundred acre wood cookies