Green Almond Pantry

Green Almond Pantry at 3210 Grace Street NW combines the cafe format with the specialty pantry retail model, creating a Grace Street address in Georgetown that serves the neighborhood’s food culture at both the prepared-meal and the ingredient-purchase level. The Grace Street location is one block south of M Street and adjacent to the Chaia taco restaurant, which gives the block a concentrated healthy and plant-forward eating character within Georgetown’s broader restaurant landscape.

The Mediterranean-inspired food program at Green Almond Pantry reflects the culinary tradition that produces some of the world’s most successfully healthy eating: the olive oil, legumes, fresh vegetables, and herb-forward preparations of the Greek, Lebanese, and Israeli kitchens that have adapted the traditional Mediterranean diet into a contemporary food culture that appeals to the health-conscious consumer. The hummus, made in-house from dried chickpeas with quality tahini and olive oil, is the preparation that the pantry does at the level that distinguishes it from the commercial hummus that most of the Georgetown restaurants and food shops serve.

The grain bowl format at Green Almond Pantry organizes the prepared food program in the way that allows the customer to compose a meal from the pantry’s components: a grain base, roasted vegetables, legumes, a sauce or dressing, and the garnishes that the Mediterranean tradition uses to finish a dish. The bowls at a pantry-cafe of this type are the daily meal solution for the Georgetown resident who wants the quality of home cooking in the prepared food format.

The pantry retail component, which offers specialty dry goods, olive oils, preserved lemons, tahini, and the other Mediterranean pantry staples that the home cook needs, extends the Grace Street address beyond the cafe into the specialty food shop that Georgetown’s cooking-engaged residential population values.

Hours run from 8am Monday through Friday and 9am Saturday, closing in the early afternoon. The Grace Street block where Green Almond Pantry operates is one of Georgetown’s more distinctive commercial addresses: a residential street that has developed a small cluster of food businesses serving the health-conscious and internationally-minded Georgetown customer. Chaia at 3207 Grace Street and Blossom Daily at the M and Grace intersection are the neighboring businesses that give the block its character. For the Georgetown resident who wants to shop, pick up a prepared meal, and have a coffee on a Saturday morning without navigating M Street’s weekend crowds, the Grace Street block provides all of these in a quieter residential setting. Hours run from 8am Monday through Friday and 9am Saturday. The pantry retail component at Green Almond at 3210 Grace Street gives the cafe dimension a grocery dimension that makes the Grace Street address a complete neighborhood food stop rather than only a sit-down meal destination. For the Georgetown resident who wants to buy the quality tahini and the specialty olive oil that the Mediterranean home kitchen needs, the Green Almond Pantry provides those ingredients alongside the prepared meal. Hours run Monday through Saturday from 8am or 9am.