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What is Café 1612?
Café 1612 is for you and your friends. It’s your kitchen when you want a healthy breakfast while you read the paper in the morning. It’s your lunchtime oasis to get a burger and fries. It’s your stop before the gym to get a protein smoothie and a muffin. It’s your neighborhood dinner spot where you can get what you want with no attitude on the side. And it’s your living room where you and your friends can have a drink and relax together. And it’s close enough that you can walk home when your day is through.

Our Mission
Café 1612 offers fresh, healthy and low fat foods served from early until late in a casual environment for everyone and anytime. Our knowledgeable and courteous staff serves the best beer, wine, spirits and frozen cosmopolitans available anywhere.

Beer and Spirits

• Our award-winning beers are brewed by our company-owned brewery in Shirlington, Virginia (check it out- we’ll give you directions and a personal tour).
• Our bar features frozen cosmopolitans and green apple martini’s made in our high-end Italian gelato machines.

Our Food
Healthy and good tasting food – it starts with the best ingredients and is made better by using the right methods. Our menu items range from totally fat-free to food that isn’t even close. But ALL of the food at Café 1612 meets the following guidelines:

• We wash all of our produce to remove all surface contaminants and pesticides.
• We have created a menu that reduces the level of trans-fatty acids wherever possible while still serving your favorites.
• We offer low-fat, dairy-free, vegetarian, and low sodium items.
• We publish the nutritional information on every food item we sell.

Smoothies
There are smoothies and there are Café 1612 Smoothies:

• We offer smoothies and protein drinks made with the finest and purest ingredients we can find.
• We don’t use reconstituted apple or orange juice in any of our drinks, and you won’t find a better-tasting smoothie anywhere – and that’s a promise.
• We use only fresh or flash frozen fresh fruit in our smoothies. No dehydrated, concentrated or reconstituted fruits.
• Our protein smoothies have at least 25 grams of whey and soy protein. All of our protein smoothies are low fat.
• We have add-ins you can’t find anywhere else in the area….HMB, creatine, and Glutamine.
• We have created add-ins for women’s health, immune-system boosts, and fat burning boosts.