The weekend won't forget to call its mother.
It's been a year since you picked up a head of lettuce, some steaks... and a date at Georgetown's famous "Social" Safeway. Well, the days of rubbing elbows with Saudi royalty and the Cheneys are back—the joint's cleaned up and reopened, so you can stop in for sushi, brick-oven pizza and a date with Condi.
Each Thursday, Atlántico's new mixologist visits the local farmers' market and returns with a few mystery ingredients for your weekend's cocktails—a cocktail lotto, if you will. We're sworn to secrecy about this weekend's recipe, but we hear it involves rhubarb and homemade liqueur. Because no weekend's complete without a little rhubarb cocktailing.
We know. Another wine shop on 14th. But bear with us. This one's run by a former winemaker from Champagne who seeks out rare vino (coincidentally, your favorite kind). They also stock 110 beers, including something called Great Divide's Yeti Imperial Stout. No sasquatches were harmed in making this beer.
We hope your papers are in good order, because on Saturday you'll be country-hopping between 19 EU embassies, sampling everything from German bratwurst and Belgian beer to Austrian strudel. If you're really resourceful, smuggle some goulash out of Hungary to pair with some Spanish wine.
You'll raise a cocktail to celebrate just about anything. Especially... cocktails. At this dinner to celebrate World Cocktail Week (which, honestly, we thought was every week), nine local mixologists are each whipping up a drink to pair with a five-course meal. Rumors that the nine are the Supreme Court Justices could not be confirmed at press time.
