A strawberry Gimlet haunting this October's cocktail hour
Part of 250 Years of Cheer
A Spirit That Never Really Left
Some cocktails carry more than flavor. At Jackie Restaurant in Navy Yard, this October's featured drink reaches back to a particular kind of mid-century elegance: crisp, unfussy, and unmistakably of its era. The Ghost of Camelot is a Gimlet built on gin, lime, and strawberry, conjured as part of the 250 Years of Cheer series running through the month.
The Gimlet predates the 1950s, but that decade cemented its place in cocktail culture. Raymond Chandler gave it a kind of literary permanence in his 1953 novel, The Long Goodbye, where a real Gimlet becomes a point of quiet devotion. Jackie's version honors that lineage while adding a strawberry note that softens the sharp edges and pulls the drink into something that feels at once familiar and new.
Washington DC has no shortage of places to drink well, but few restaurants in Navy Yard frame a seasonal cocktail within a larger story the way this American restaurant does. 250 Years of Cheer is a through-line for October, and The Ghost of Camelot is one of its more quietly haunting chapters.
What's in the Glass
Gin
The backbone of the classic Gimlet, gin brings the botanical structure and quiet assertiveness that made the drink a fixture of mid-century cocktail culture. It sets the tone before anything else reaches the palate.
Lime
Chandler's Philip Marlowe was firm on the point: a real Gimlet is made with lime, and nothing about that has changed. The citrus cuts cleanly through the spirit and keeps the drink honest.
Strawberry
The twist that earns the name. Strawberry introduces a gentle sweetness and a blush of color, shifting the Gimlet just enough to make it feel like something new without abandoning what made the original worth remembering.
250 Years of Cheer, This October
The Ghost of Camelot is part of Jackie Restaurant's October series, 250 Years of Cheer, a seasonal celebration built around the cocktail hour. Each drink in the series is grounded in a specific moment in American drinking history, and this one lands squarely in the stylish, slightly melancholy glamour of the early 1960s.
Located at 79 Potomac Ave SE, Jackie is one of the Navy Yard restaurants that gives the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood a genuine sense of occasion. Whether you are coming from near Nationals Park or making the trip specifically, this is a cocktail hour worth pausing for.
Join Us for Cocktail Hour
The Ghost of Camelot is waiting at the bar this October.
Reserve your seat at Jackie Restaurant, 79 Potomac Ave SE in Washington DC.
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