Last year, Todd Thrasher, drinks savant for EatGoodFood Group, had a dream about Showtime character Dexter Morgan’s serial-killer ritual. And while it sounds more like a nightmare to us, it inspired one dangerously good cocktail at PX. "The Dexter" combines pomegranate juice, orange juice bitters, 42 Below vodka, cardamaro (an Italian digestif), and egg white into a drink so juicy and delicious, you might not think there’s any alcohol in it at all. But, trust us — there is. The final touch is the stripe and drops of "blood" — pomegranate reduction — on top, which are a nod to (brace yourself, people!) Dexter’s habit of slashing his victims and saving their blood on slides as a memento. If good drinks could kill, well, we’d all be done for.

Where: 728 King Street, Alexandria; 703-299-8385.


Photographed by Lisa Mathias/A Whisk and a Mile