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The 2023 Eater D.C. Holiday Gift Guide

by xzodd November 7, 2023, 9:44 pm 1000 Views

It’s attending to that point of 12 months while you begin trying to find Christmas and Hanukkah items for the buddy who’s at all times prepared with the right restaurant advice. Or maybe it’s a gift to your member of the family, the one who already has each kitchen equipment and gadget ever invented. Perhaps you’re simply on the lookout for an workplace White Elephant reward that everybody on the get together will attempt to steal.

For the meals lovers in your life, Eater DC tracked down items that meals lovers will really use and love. The choices are largely very native to D.C., as cooks, specialty meals shops, and types showcase their most artistic concepts and cute swag choices for the vacations. Maintain studying to buy Champagne or pastry subscriptions, particular booze choices, spicy sauces, fancy pantry objects, edible stocking stuffers, and clothes that provides your favourite eating places a shout-out. Costs vary from beneath $7 to $350.

Want extra procuring concepts? Browse Eater Nationwide’s reward guides or Eater DC reward guides from years previous.

Atlas Brew Works Creation Calendar

In late November, D.C. brewery Atlas Brew Works is slated to roll out its well-liked introduction calendar for beer. There’s a brew on this field for every of the 12 days of Christmas, from Atlas’ core beers to seasonal releases and fan favorites, all hid beneath numbered panels. When you order a field, you’ll decide it up from both Atlas brewery and faucet room in Ivy Metropolis or Half Avenue — and hurry, as a result of provides are restricted.

By Jing Field

Trendy Asian meals firm Fly By Jing’s highly regarded chile crisp has a neighborhood presence at Maketto (the H Avenue restaurant from chef Erik Bruner-Yang simply hosted a cocktail get together and e book signing for founder Jing Gao’s debut cookbook The E book of Sichuan Chili Crisp). Maketto sells sauces and the e book, and also you’ll additionally discover the cookbook at Daring Fork Books in Mount Nice. Or you possibly can splurge on the model’s Sichuan important field, which incorporates all the things from a chile crisp French dressing to the tremendous spicy Sichuan Gold sizzling sauce.

The Queen’s Share Rum by Thrasher’s Rum

Todd Thrasher, the mixologist-turned-distiller behind the Wharf’s tropical hotspot Tiki TNT, is channeling Polynesian historical past for his newest rum launch. The Queen’s Share Rum will probably be out there round Thanksgiving, and this newest Thrasher rum is aged in medium charred oak barrels after the preliminary distilling for a clean end. Worth: TBD.

“I Love Cheese” Subscription from Every Peach Market

For the one you love who actually, actually loves cheese, Mount Nice indie grocery retailer Every Peach Market affords a month-to-month subscription that ships out a field containing two or three distinctive cheeses and attractive accoutrements. The market additionally sells reward baskets, with a vacation reward basket within the works. Obtainable as three-month ($200) or six-month ($350) subscriptions.

Smorgasbord Basket from Nido

Nido is a Mediterranean treasure trove of area of interest wines and imported groceries in Mount Nice, and for the vacations, you possibly can create customized reward containers beginning at $60 or snag a pre-packaged one. Nido’s smorgasbord basket consists of Fangst tinned seafood sourced from Nordic waters, French mayonnaise and dijon mustard, and Italian capers.

Hen Pot Pie from Jenn’s Home made

Nothing says love like a stocked freezer: Chef Jenn Crovato of Georgetown’s 1310 Kitchen & Bar began making a line of freezer-to-oven dishes and ready-to-eat meals known as Jenn’s Home made in the course of the pandemic. Deliver a cherished one a dinner for later, just like the frozen 23-ounce rooster pot pie made with roasted rooster and shiitake mushrooms inside a butter crust. For the vacations, you possibly can add a dessert like candy potato pie or apple crumble as a part of a candy and savory bundle.

Cake Jar from Mr. Bake

Pastry chef and James Beard Award semi-finalist Kareem Queeman (aka Mr. Bake) has been seen on TV exhibits like Immediately and Beat Bobby Flay, however you’ll find him domestically at his brick-and-mortar location at Riverdale Park’s Le Fantome meals corridor. For an excellent stocking stuffer, attempt his colourful cake jars in flavors like candy potato cake, birthday cake, pink velvet, and cookies and cream. Order by the Mr. Bake web site or by way of supply apps for native supply.

XO Sauce from Peter Chang

Wrap up a style of Chang Chang, Q by Peter Chang, and Mama Chang with this new sauce from famed Chinese language chef Peter Chang. The mushrooms within the jar hail from Chang’s distinctive collaboration with a New York Amish farmer named Sam Peachey, who grew too many shiitake mushrooms and turned to Chang to include them into his signature bottled XO sauce. Obtainable for buy at Chang’s eating places within the DMV, with plans for on-line gross sales quickly.

Rigatoni-themed Merch from The Purple Hen

This beloved D.C. Italian spot turned its best-selling rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu right into a line of merchandise. Select between shirts, hoodies, and baseball hats, emblazoned with the restaurant’s brand and “Rigatoni” in massive letters. The objects can be found to buy on the restaurant, but it surely’s additionally doable to order by way of e mail. T-shirts are $25 and hoodies are $50.

Sugar & Spice Field from Salt & Sundry

Native boutique Salt & Sundry is a go-to for items all year-round, however in the course of the holidays, founder Amanda McClements’ store is promoting a Sugar & Spice field with sugary objects from a Barbie-esque “Malibu Dream Home Sprinkles” from River Street and a cookie butter bar by Compartés. The spice comes within the type of Chai Spice handcrafted nut butter by Huge Spoon, Tinned Makhir Ginger by Diaspora Co., and cocktail syrup for a craft sizzling toddy.

Eric Carle BapronBaby Bapron from Three Littles

For the littlest — and messiest — gourmands, a bapron is likely to be the most effective factor for mealtime. That’s a mixture bib/apron made by BapronBaby, for full-coverage safety from stains. Three Littles, a too-cute indie children’ store within the Union Market district, sells one in all these lined with a food-focused print from The Very Hungry Caterpillar illustrator Eric Carle.

Bubbly Subscription at Sparkle-ist

Native sparking wine and Champagne membership Sparkle-ist focuses on bottles of bubbly from small household farms that incorporate biodynamic and sustainable farming practices. A month-to-month reward subscription field consists of three distinctive, restricted manufacturing glowing wines, together with tasting notes from founder Lieven DeGeyndt, producer data, and “excessive forehead/low forehead” pairing strategies. You’ll be able to store particular person bottles of glowing wine, champagne, and alcohol free bubbles too, ranging in value from $19 to $80.

Jane Jane Merchandise

The workers at cool cocktail bar Jane Jane on 14th Avenue are already rocking in-house merchandise that can launch formally on-line on November 10. Jane Jane’s first capsule assortment channels the bar’s retro spirit of the Sixties, Nineteen Seventies, and Nineteen Eighties. You’ll be capable of buy the shirts or hat at Jane Jane or on its web site. Hats are $40, T-shirts are $45, sweatshirts are $65.

Customized Cocktail Equipment from Housebar

Reward a house bar in a field from Housebar, a artistic bottle store in Southeast. The package consists of OnePart vodka, gin, or bourbon, plus syrup, garnish, a strainer, a jigger and cocktail shaker tins. Every package can is custom-made to an Previous Normal, Gin Rickey, or no matter basic cocktail you select. The essential package might be upgraded primarily based on the spirit.

Pastry Subscription from Chapman’s DC

Pastry chef Annie Clemmons’ resume consists of fancy eating places like Bourbon Steak, however she’s pivoted to open her personal dessert firm known as Chapman’s DC. Along with customized truffles and pastries for direct order within the DMV space, she additionally affords native weekly and month-to-month subscription containers for true dessert followers. She’s made 170 containers thus far with out repeating a candy, together with desserts like pave de pommes tatin or elderflower and fervour fruit mousse. The weekly field serves 4 to 6 folks.

Maman and Me Cookbook

Study to prepare dinner crunchy baked saffron rice with rooster, garlicky eggplant dip, and different Persian classics with a brand new hardcover cookbook from a neighborhood mother-daughter duo who went viral on TikTok. D.C. native and Glossier exec Roya Shariat and her mom Gita, a chef in Potomac, Maryland, share the secrets and techniques behind household favorites in Maman and Me: Recipes from Our Iranian American Household. (For those who’re on the lookout for a Glossier reward to throw in too, Roya recommends the Restricted Version Balm Dotcom in vacation flavors like Cookie Butter and Scorching Cocoa).

Taco Bamba Trucker Hat

For the buddy who has tried each taco on the menu at Chef Victor Albisu’s native taco chain, a trucker hat with the taqueria’s brand may match the invoice. The store additionally sells cheeky T-shirts, together with one that claims “No Previous, No Future, Simply Tacos.”

Specialty Candle from Masseria

Chef Nicholas Stefanelli’s coastal Italian tasting menu spot Masseria affords its personal signature candle on the market, impressed by the Masserita cocktail with notes of sea salt, blood orange, and festive rosemary. Obtainable for buy at Masseria and Officina on the Wharf within the restaurant’s Mercato.

Peruvian Scorching Sauce Starter Pack

Peruvian Brothers went from meals truck to a sprawling new store at Amazon HQ2 in Nationwide Touchdown, however a superb introduction to the model is its sizzling sauce made with spicy rocoto peppers sourced instantly from Perú. The bottles are topped with little festive knit hats too.

Crochet Pizza at Tonari

Wafu (Japanese-style) Italian spot Tonari in D.C. sells a hip pink sweatshirt designed by chef and proprietor Katsuya Fukushima. However for a really distinctive reward, Fukushima’s personal mom crochets lovable slices of pizza and Japanese rice balls to promote on the restaurant. (Provides of those handmade items are restricted, clearly.)