South Block Juice Company

South Block Juice Company at 3210 Grace Street NW is a DC-area juice and smoothie cafe chain on the Grace Street Georgetown block that has developed into one of the neighborhood’s more distinctive food clusters, with Chaia, Green Almond Pantry, Blossom Daily, and Ramen by Uzu sharing the residential street that runs one block south of M Street. South Block, which was founded in the DC-Virginia market, has built its brand around the accessible wellness beverage: the cold-pressed juice, the smoothie bowl, and the acai bowl format that the American health food market has embraced as the daily wellness ritual.

The Grace Street location at 3210 is the same address as Spot of Tea and the other Grace Street tenants that have made this residential Georgetown address a destination for the Georgetown resident who uses the block for morning and midday food stops rather than the evening restaurant visits that M Street and the commercial corridors service. The location is walkable from the Georgetown University campus and from the M Street commercial district, which gives South Block access to both the student wellness market and the Georgetown professional health food customer.

The South Block product line covers the juice and smoothie categories that the wellness beverage market has standardized: the green juice blended from leafy vegetables and low-sugar fruits, the fruit-forward juices that provide accessible sweetness alongside the vegetable content, the smoothie bowls with their acai or pitaya base topped with granola, banana, and honey, and the seasonal specials that the company develops to reflect the year’s available produce. The acai bowl format, which is the blended frozen acai base served as a thick consistency with toppings, requires the specific frozen acai supply chain that the South Block operations maintain.

South Block was founded by Amir and Haya Mostafavi and has expanded from its original Northern Virginia locations to DC proper, bringing the accessible wellness format to the urban Georgetown market. Hours run from 7am weekdays, 8am Saturday, and 9am Sunday. The Grace Street food cluster that South Block anchors with Chaia, Green Almond Pantry, Blossom Daily, and Ramen by Uzu has made this Georgetown residential street one of the neighborhood’s more interesting food destinations, where the variety of the block’s dining and beverage options serves the Georgetown customer who wants to spend a midday hour moving between the different stops. The South Block smoothie bowl program, which uses the frozen acai or pitaya base topped with granola, honey, sliced banana, and the fresh fruit of the season, provides the mid-morning meal that the Georgetown customer who skips breakfast in favor of the mid-morning food stop is looking for. The bowl format is filling enough to serve as a complete meal rather than a snack, which makes the juice bar’s food program more substantial than the beverage-first format suggests. Hours run from 7am weekdays, 8am Saturday, and 9am Sunday.