Peacock Café

Peacock Cafe at 3251 Prospect Street NW is on the block that has become Georgetown’s most concentrated fine dining street, sharing the Prospect address with Brasserie Liberte, Cafe Milano, and Mai Thai. The cafe format at this address occupies the casual end of the Prospect Street dining spectrum, providing the neighborhood cafe and breakfast and lunch service that the residential Georgetown community uses the street for during the daytime hours when the fine dining establishments are not yet in their dinner service.

The cafe format that Peacock Cafe operates in serves the Georgetown resident who wants a morning coffee and breakfast, a working lunch, or the mid-afternoon coffee break that the Prospect Street address is accessible for. The Prospect Street block, which is slightly elevated above M Street and runs through the Georgetown residential neighborhood, has the pedestrian pace of a residential street rather than a commercial avenue, which makes the cafe visit at this address a quieter experience than the M Street and Wisconsin Avenue cafes provide.

The American food menu at Peacock Cafe covers the breakfast and lunch categories: the egg preparations, the pancakes, and the toast options in the morning; the sandwiches, salads, and the daily specials that the lunch service provides. For the Georgetown resident who works from home or who has a meeting in the neighborhood, the Prospect Street cafe provides the working-meal environment that the area needs alongside its dinner restaurant concentration.

The Prospect Street location at 3251, which is close to the Wisconsin Avenue intersection, is accessible from the Wisconsin Avenue commercial district to the west and from the Georgetown residential blocks to the east. The combination of the cafe’s casual daytime service and the concentration of fine dining restaurants nearby makes Peacock Cafe the practical neighborhood address for the Georgetown resident who uses Prospect Street for the full day.

Hours run from 8am daily. The Prospect Street address at 3251 gives Peacock Cafe access to the Georgetown customer who comes to Prospect Street for the fine dining establishments and who may use the cafe for the daytime meal before the evening restaurant visit. The combination of the daytime cafe character and the proximity to the Prospect Street’s evening fine dining destinations creates a Prospect Street dining day that can begin at Peacock Cafe for the morning coffee and end at one of the French restaurants for the dinner. The American food menu at Peacock Cafe serves the full day rather than specializing in the morning or the lunch period alone. The egg preparations and the toast items that the morning customer expects, the sandwiches and salads that the lunch customer orders, and the dinner menu that the evening service provides allow the cafe to serve the Georgetown Prospect Street customer at every meal period. The Prospect Street setting is also appropriate to the Georgetown visitor who has come to see the historic architecture of the residential neighborhood and who wants a coffee or a lunch break during the walk. Prospect Street has some of the most impressive Federal period residential architecture in Georgetown, and the walk along the street is itself a Georgetown attraction that the Peacock Cafe serves as a rest stop. Hours run from 8am daily through the dinner service.