Grace Street Coffee Roasters

Grace Street Coffee Roasters is a Georgetown-based specialty coffee company at 3299 K Street NW in the waterfront development at the Georgetown Harbour complex. The name references Grace Street, which is the address of the Chaia vegetable taco restaurant and the Green Almond Pantry in the Georgetown residential block behind the M Street commercial corridor, establishing a Georgetown neighborhood identity for the coffee company that the K Street waterfront location supplements.

The specialty coffee roasting operation at Grace Street focuses on single-origin beans sourced from the producing regions whose crops the specialty coffee market follows seasonally: Ethiopia for the natural and washed process coffees whose floral and fruit characteristics represent the country’s diverse coffee genetics; Colombia for the balanced caramel and chocolate profiles that the Andean growing conditions produce; Guatemala and Honduras for the medium-bodied coffees whose clean profiles make them versatile across preparation methods; and Kenya for the high-acidity bright coffees that the country’s growing regions produce in the washed process.

Single-origin roasting, which Grace Street practices, is the approach that allows the specific characteristics of each coffee’s origin to emerge rather than blending different origins together into a profile that is consistent but non-specific. The result is a rotating selection of coffees whose flavor changes with each new crop arrival, which rewards the regular customer who engages with the roaster’s sourcing work and gives the coffee conversation between the barista and the customer the content that a generic coffee selection does not provide.

The K Street waterfront location at 3299 in Suite 102 of the Georgetown Harbour development puts the cafe in the waterfront complex that includes Founding Farmers, Guapo’s, and the other establishments at the canal level.

Hours run from 7am Monday through Friday and 8am on weekends. The roastery model, where the coffee shop is also the production facility that supplies the coffee it serves, provides the freshness transparency that specialty coffee customers value. When the roasting happens at or near the same address where the coffee is served, the customer can know the roast date with confidence, and the barista can speak about the coffee with the authority of someone who works alongside the roaster rather than receiving pre-packaged products from a distant supplier. Grace Street Coffee’s Georgetown waterfront location at 3299 K Street in Suite 102 serves the professional tenants of the Georgetown Harbour development and the recreational visitors to the waterfront park. The full coffee menu and bean selection are available at gracestcoffee.com. The single-origin rotating selection at Grace Street Coffee provides the customer who visits regularly with a different coffee experience on each visit, as the seasonal crop arrivals from different producing regions replace each other on the pour-over menu. For the Georgetown professional who uses the K Street waterfront cafe as a daily working space, the rotating single-origin menu is the reason to engage with the barista rather than just ordering the same latte every morning. Grace Street’s local roasting identity distinguishes it from the national specialty chains at other Georgetown coffee addresses.