We’re just about a week out from Thanksgiving and it’s hard to believe we’ll soon be seeing commercials for Chia Pets and the Clapper—unofficial signs Christmas is near. The coming week’s offerings include a chance to pick that perfect Thanksgiving Day wine, feast on holiday cookies at a \ wreath-making class, and sip drinks at DC Cocktail Week.

Cooking For A Cause

A band of lady chefs from the Mera Kitchen Collective, a cooperative for and by Baltimore-based refugees and immigrants, work the kitchen at Compass Rose today (Wednesday) to bring you World Comfort Kitchen, a pop-up dinner featuring a pre-fixe menu of cuisine from Syria and Salvador—the chefs’ home countries. Sample menu items include fried yuca with chicharrón, lamb kibbeh dumplings, and tahini yogurt beet salad. All proceeds will go to support the collective. (1346 T St. NW, Wednesday, slots available between 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., $65 before tax and gratuity)

DC Cocktail Week Brings The Heat

If you love cocktails, this is your week, because the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington’s DC Cocktail Week returns to celebrate local bartenders and beverage culture, now through Sunday. There’s a lot to unpack here. All week long, more than 40 participating restaurants, some of them 2019 RAMMY Cocktail of the year finalists, serve up drinks with bites all week for one price. Participating restaurants include Karma Modern Indian, Ivy City Smokehouse, Pisco y Nazca, Dos Mamis, Doi Moi, City Winery, and Sotto. As if that wasn’t enough, you’ve got one more official happy hour to choose from. It’s today (Wednesday) at the Royal, featuring complimentary tastings from Catoctin Creek Distillery. (Royal, 501 Florida Ave. NW, Wednesday, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.)

Never Enough Pie

Executive chef Kwame Onwuachi and executive pastry chef Paola Velez and the rest of the Kith/Kin crew are teaming up to launch a Thanksgiving-inspired selection of pies and jerk-smoked turkeys for you to preorder from the Afro-Caribbean restaurant. The lineup includes tamarind pecan pie, brown butter apple pie, buttermilk pie, and dulce de leche pear pie from Velez. The turkeys, ranging between 11 and 13 pounds, come courtesy of Onwuachi. (801 Wharf St. SW, pies and turkeys are available for pre-order, first come, first served, online orders must be made no later than Friday, and pick up will be available starting Tuesday, $45  per pie and $125 a turkey)

Popping bottles and bubbles

 Float over to Bourbon Steak at the Four Seasons for its Hotel on Ice holiday popup where you’ll sit inside decorated “Champagne bubbles” on the patio with six to eight of your friends for lunch or dinner. If you want to splurge, you’ll sip Dom Perignon Blanc, Ruinart, or Krug, and have the option of ordering a full selection of cuisine or opting for menu parings, like caviar and special sauces with the Dom Perignon Blanc 2006, or lobster pot pie served with the Ruinart Blanc de Blanc and Rosé. (2800 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, the Krug and Dom Perignon Champagne Bubbles require a $150-$250 rental and $75-$150/per person food & beverage minimum. The Ruinart Champagne Bubble require a $150-$250 rental and $500-$1,000 minimum. Seatings available daily at 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m., and 10 p.m. throughout winter)

Bring In The Funk

For the first time ever, Atlas Brew Works has jumped into the barrel blending game and debuts its inaugural brew Monday that it’s calling The Shape of Funk To Come. It’s inspired by the sour red ales traditionally found in West Flanders and the scent channels sour cherry and balsamic. Expect to taste sweeter notes of black cherry, dried fruit, and currant. (2025 West Virginia Ave. NE, available 4 p.m. Monday)

We’ll Need Lots Of Wine Thanksgiving Day

Still don’t know which wine to pick for Thanksgiving? City Winery’s got a class for that. Tuesday, the venue’s beverage director Magdala Francillon will help you build the perfect vino list for Thanksgiving. (1350 Okie St. NE, Tuesday 7 p.m., $45)

Feeling Like Christmas

Sip warming teas, and toddies and nosh on holiday treats Saturday when Estuary and Conrad Washington DC join forces with She Loves Me for a wreath-making class. Enjoy festive desserts like gingerbread opera cake, eggnog cream puff, speculoos jam cookies, chestnut bread pudding, and chocolate peppermint tarts. (950 New York Ave. NW, Saturday 2 p.m.-4 p.m., $85)