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DC Cocktail Week kicks off with new drinks at local bars, restaurants

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Your Thanksgiving leftovers are put away, and you still have a few weeks to get your Christmas shopping done. It might be the perfect time to pour yourself a drink and relax. Better yet, have someone do it for you.

is now on, and organizers said dozens of restaurants and bars across the D.C. region are offering specials and drinking events.

In Alexandria, specialty food market and restaurant has a spin on an American classic, apple pie and cheese, only with more booze. Cheesetique鈥檚 Appletini is served with a piece of 20-year-old cheddar. For DC Cocktail Week they are throwing in even more cheese, a side of Manchego cheese and warm olives.

鈥淏eautiful salty olive mix, beautiful marinated flavors there, with what we call a young Manchego, which is the world’s most famous sheep milk cheese from Spain,鈥 Cheesetique鈥檚 founder and “cheese lady” Jill Erber told 海角精品黑料.

Erber said this year marks Cheesetique’s 20th anniversary, and the first time the shop has participated in DC Cocktail Week. Before this year, Erber said she never considered Cheesetique part of the District’s cocktail scene.

鈥淭his is a very family focused neighborhood, and it鈥檚 a very sort of friends and visitors kind of neighborhood,鈥 she said. 鈥淲e get a lot less of that government focus here and much more of catering to our residents.鈥

Cheesetique isn’t the only establishment participating this year. Sister restaurant in Arlington, also run by Jill and her husband Jeff, is in the mix, too. Its DC Cocktail Week special is a choice of two autumnal spritz cocktails served with chanterelle arancini.

You can imbibe during DC Cocktail Week through Dec. 5 at any participating location.

A view of the interior floor of the Cheesetique in Del Ray
Visitors to the Cheesetique in Del Ray will be able to grab a cocktail during DC Cocktail Week. (海角精品黑料/Shayna Estulin)
A view of the counterspace of the Cheesetique in Del Ray
Cheesetique guests will be able to get some tasty cocktails during DC Cocktail Week. (海角精品黑料/Shayna Estulin)
Cheesetique owners spent the fall celebrating 20 years of operating in their Del Ray location. (海角精品黑料/Shayna Estulin)
A clear drink appears on a counter in the Cheesetique.
Autumnal cocktails aren’t just at the Cheesetique! Sister locations in Arlington will also participate in this year’s cocktail week, with plenty more establishments making their own specialty cocktails. (海角精品黑料/Shayna Estulin)
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A view of the interior floor of the Cheesetique in Del Ray
A view of the counterspace of the Cheesetique in Del Ray
A clear drink appears on a counter in the Cheesetique.

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Shayna Estulin

Shayna Estulin joined 海角精品黑料 in 2021 as an anchor/reporter covering breaking news in the D.C. region. She has loved radio since she was a child and is thrilled to now be part of Washington鈥檚 top radio news station.

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