Sweet Home Cafe

American restaurant · Washington Monument Grounds

"Sweet Home Café’s Jerome Grant serves regional African-American cuisine with dishes such as slow cooked collards with cornbread sticks and potlikker, Gulf shrimp and stone ground grits with smoked tomato butter, and black-eyed pea empanadas." - Jane Frye

The Art of Opening a Restaurant in a Museum

1400 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560 Get directions

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