Starbucks to Start Offering Beer + Wine Tuesday at These Locations

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Love your latte in the morning at Starbucks? The popular coffee chain will soon begin counting on you returning later to unwind with a little wine and a bite to eat.

Several Starbucks locations in Washington DC and Northern Virginia will soon begin offering their new "Starbucks Evenings" menu, which includes an assortment of wine and craft beer, along with shareable small plates.

Starbucks Evenings is designed to offer customers a place to relax in the evening, to grab a coffee or glass of wine and bite to eat.

The concept was launched a few years ago by the company in Washington state, Oregon, Chicago, Atlanta and a few other locations.

The first Starbucks Evenings location in Northern Virginia was launched a few years ago at Dulles International Airport, where they begin serving beer and wine at 12 noon because of the heavy daytime traffic. Most Starbucks Evenings menus begin at 4 p.m., according to the company. The "Evenings" menu at Dulles includes various small plates (truffle mac and cheese, warmed rosemary and brown sugar cashews), salads (baby arugula with fresh basil and pickled beets) sandwiches (fire grilled chicken and goat cheese), flat breads (roasted artichoke, zucchini, tomato and Parmesan) and desserts (chocolate fondue with strawberries, marshmallows and cookies).

The menus vary by region.

Starbucks is now hoping to roll out the concept across more stores in Northern Virginia, targeting Tuesday for select area stores and the week of April 11 for DC stores.

The "Evenings" menu will launch Tuesday at these Northern Virginia locations, Starbucks confirmed:

• Arlington Ridge: 2925 S Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA 22206-2731
• Chantilly Crossing: 14423 Chantilly Crossing Ln, Chantilly, VA 20151-2116
• Kamp Washington Shopping Center: 10930 Fairfax Blvd., Fairfax, VA 22030 Fairfax
• Harrison Crossing: 5811 Plank Rd, Fredericksburg, VA 22407-6229
• Great Falls Center: 9863 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls, VA 22066-2617
• Haymarket Village Center: 6422 Trading Sq, Haymarket, VA 20169-2276
• Purcellville Gateway: 140 Purcellville Gateway Dr, Purcellville, VA 20132-3485
• Saratoga Shopping Center: 8068 Rolling Rd , Springfield, VA 22153-2928
• Stafford Marketplace: 1495 Stafford Market Pl, Stafford, VA 22556-4530
• Pike 7 Shopping Center: 8381 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182-2402
• Warrenton Village Center: 127 W. Lee Hwy., Warrenton 20186
• South Pleasant Valley: 1690 S. Pleasant Valley Road, Winchester 20186

The following have also received beer and wine permits but Starbucks did not confirm if the new Evenings menu will roll out at these locations:

• 7696 Richmond Highway, Unit J, Alexandria VA 22306
• 2413 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA 22204
• 1609 Jefferson Davis Highway, Fredericksburg,VA 22401
• 2523 John Milton Dr., Herndon, VA 20171
• 21021 Southbank St., Sterling, VA 20165