Local Starbucks stores add wine, craft beer to evening menu

Craft beer for sale at the Cathedral Commons Starbucks includes Port City Brew. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
Craft beer for sale at the Cathedral Commons Starbucks includes Port City Brew. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
D.C.'s Cathedral Commons Starbucks is among about 20 in the D.C. area offering a new evening menu with beer and wine. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
D.C.’s Cathedral Commons Starbucks is among about 20 in the D.C. area offering a new evening menu with beer and wine. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
Some of the drinks and appetizers that are part of Starbucks' new menu. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
Some of the drinks and appetizers that are part of Starbucks’ new menu. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
One of the new evening menu items at Starbucks in the spinach artichoke dip with pita chips for $5.95. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
One of the new evening menu items at Starbucks in the spinach artichoke dip with pita chips for $5.95. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
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Craft beer for sale at the Cathedral Commons Starbucks includes Port City Brew. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
D.C.'s Cathedral Commons Starbucks is among about 20 in the D.C. area offering a new evening menu with beer and wine. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
Some of the drinks and appetizers that are part of Starbucks' new menu. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
One of the new evening menu items at Starbucks in the spinach artichoke dip with pita chips for $5.95. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)

WASHINGTON — It’s a popular place for a morning coffee, but now several Starbucks stores in the D.C. region are hoping to draw a crowd with new offerings in the late afternoon and evening hours.

The Starbucks Evenings menu includes craft beer, wine and appetizers. The offerings vary depending on the part of the country the store is located.

It’s now available at nearly 20 Starbucks locations in D.C. and Northern Virginia, including locations in Arlington, Chantilly, Dulles Airport, Fairfax, Great Falls, Haymarket, Purcellville, Springfield, Stafford, Vienna and Warrenton.

Starbucks says there is a demand for a casual evening meeting place.

Plus, a poll from Scarborough Research posted on Starbucks website says 70 percent of Starbucks customers drink wine, and they’re also two times more likely than the national average to drink craft beer.

Starbucks Evenings was first tested in 2010 in Seattle, and has since been slowly rolled out in other places.

Would you try the new menu options? Let us know in the poll below:

Below is a map of the locations in D.C. and Northern Virginia currently offering the evening menu.

Michelle Basch

Michelle Basch is a reporter turned morning anchor at WTOP News.

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