The award-winning Cafe 1217 is situated in downtown Hot Springs and is both a restaurant and gourmet delicatessen. The menu has a vast selection of dishes including salads, enchiladas, sandwiches and desserts. The cafe is decorated in a bistro style with round tables, ironwork chairs and painted scenes in muted colors on the walls.
The Cafe has a carry-out service and provides box lunches comprising a combination of the salad and sandwich menu options. These lunches are great for business meetings, picnics or parties. Delivery is available for order of 10 and over. The Cafe offers a full catering service and can prepare a customized menu for any special occasion.
The menu features a wide selection of soups, first course and entree salads such as the southwestern cobb, oriental chicken and grilled turkey salads. All sandwiches are dressed with Dijon mayonnaise and served with the salad of the day. There are many filling to choose from on tortillas, muffins, croissants and warm garlic baguettes. Choose from a selection of entrees including shrimp and crawfish cake with red and tartar sauces, chicken pie with a dill crust, and orange glazed salmon. Vegetable accompaniments include squash casserole, vegetable couscous and honey-roasted carrots.
For dessert try one of home-made desserts and cookies, or round off your meal with one of the many specialty coffees including the gourmet coffee of the day, or a 'Humphrey', the Hot Springs favorite.
The Cafe is open for dinner Monday through Fridays, brunch and lunches Monday through Saturday. Closed Sundays.