Batida in Portuguese means milkshake, shaken, or in some scenarios, it can refer to a car crash. Somehow all of these descriptors make sense when considering the group of cocktails known as batidas.

First things first – cachaça is pronounced “ka-sha-sa”, the Brazilian Portuguese word for rum. Technically, it is a type of rum, as it is also a spirit made from sugar cane by-products.

The new concept on 18th Street NW was developed by Mercy Me’s Marko Bogdanovic, Radovan Jankovic, and the late Robert Curtis, ...