Hyattsville Latin American eatery Cocineros recently added a mixed-drink menu inspired by its owner’s travels to Latin America and the Caribbean, including Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Located at 3513 East-West Hwy., across from the Mall at Prince George’s, Cocineros now includes a sit-down bar with various alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink options alongside its wide-ranging menu of items from Mexico, Central America, and Chile.

The drink menu includes margaritas, mojitos, micheladas, and sangria, as well as beer and wine. Co-owner Carlos Alvarado told the Hyattsville Wire that the most popular drinks on Friday, the first day he started offering mixed drinks, were the hibiscus margarita and the piña colada.

Non-alcoholic versions of the piña colada and daiquiri are also available, along with soft drinks, Jarritos, iced tea and coffee.

Alvarado told the Wire he is also looking to partner with other Route 1 businesses, including area breweries.

He also runs Taqueria Habanero, which had to close its location in College Park when the shopping center was sold.

Along with his family, Alvarado, who previously worked for noted D.C. chef José Andrés, also runs Uno Más in Petworth, Comedor San Alejo in Hyattsville and Tequila & Mezcal in Columbia Heights.

For now, that location is now running out of a food truck in front of its old location in the Campus Village Shoppes at 8145 Baltimore Ave.

Alvarado told the Wire that when construction starts, he plans to keep the food truck somewhere else on the Route 1 corridor until the restaurant can reopen in a new brick-and-mortar location.

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