It’s not enough to be a restaurant and brewery these days—Sehkraft (pronounced say-craft) also runs a full butchery operation 1 and a market stocked with local goods. Opened late last year, the team behind Westover Market brings the best of their wares into a smaller, curated space. The butchers provide corned beef for the reuben next door 2, but the main attraction is the meat case 3 with cuts as common as pork chop and rib eye and as interesting as picanha, a Brazilian-style steak, plus lamb burgers, goat loin chop, Virginia-cured Spanish-style ham and a freezer case of exotics: kangaroo sausage, elk shank and alligator loins. There’s also whole rabbit. The cheese case pulls from small-batch producers from the DMV (Sterling’s Blue Ridge Dairy Co.) and across the country. Of course there are jams, mustards, pickles 4 and limited produce. Expect grab-and-go growlers (once the brewery starts production), cider and this year’s kombucha: switchel 5, a sorghum- or maple syrup-based drink mixed with vinegar and ginger and made, of course, in Arlington. // 925 N. Garfield St., Arlington
(February 2016)
