OPEN: 7 Days a Week

Mon - Fri 7 to 6:30pm & Sat / Sun 8:30am to 4:30pm

PH: 414.431.6551 - 9TH & NATIONAL AVE.

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The National is our neighborhood cafe and takeaway, the newest addition to the Walker's Point neighborhood revival.  The space is fresh, the food is flavorful, and the staff really loves what they do.  In warmer months, we offer an urban getaway backyard patio.

When it comes to food, The National is all about flavor.  Nearly everything is made from scratch and given our culinary staff's special treatment, from mango ketchup to strained, ginger infused honey yogurt, from housemade black olive hummus to the olive tapenade in the Italian melt.  Expect flavor, and expect something you've never tasted before.

We offer fresh, local and organic ingredients in, as much as possible, our sustainable modeled cafe.  Our to-go containers are compostable, and we ask patrons to return them so we can compost them in our backyard garden.  We also compost our coffee grounds and fruit rinds and pretty much everything we can. This reduce what we put in a landfill, and creates nutrient-rich dirt of which our veggies are grown in the summer.

Speaking of coffee, we're proud to offer Chicago's Metropolis Coffee as our coffee selection, and not because they won 'Roaster of the Year' last year in Roast.  We love the coffee, but we love the people and their practices more.  They're the kind of cats who meet the coffee farmers and do business directly with the growers and their cooperatives.  They take Fair Trade as seriously as they do rich flavor.

We truly want The National to be the hip, little cafe you've always wanted to frequent.  If you have praise or suggestions, we want to hear them.  If you've heard of better sustainable practices that can help our little planet, tell us about those, too.