Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Beverage Stores in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 72 stores from 68 food & beverage store chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
68
Tracked stores
72
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & beverage store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Wagshal’s - -19.1%
  • Jessie Taylor Seafood
  • Gotcha Hooked Seafood
  • Wagshal’s
  • Gwenie's Pastries
  • Flying Ace Farm
  • Lobster Maine-ia
  • McClintock Distillery
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

72 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 9 of the 72 stores (13%); 66 of the 68 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are food & beverage stores, against 2% across District of Columbia.

  • Jessie Taylor Seafood (1)
  • Gotcha Hooked Seafood (1)
  • Wagshal’s (3)
  • Gwenie's Pastries (3)
  • Flying Ace Farm (1)
  • Lobster Maine-ia (1)
  • McClintock Distillery (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Wagshal’s 3
  • 2 Gwenie's Pastries 3
  • 3 South America's Best 1
  • 4 Catoctin Creek Distilling Company 1
  • 5 Petit Délice 1
  • 6 Dida's Distillery 1
  • 7 DrinkMore Water 1
  • 8 My Water Store 1
  • 9 Freddy's Pasta & Pizza 1
  • 10 Twin Valley Distillers 1
  • 11 Fordham Lee Distillery 1
  • 12 Cool Spring Distillery 1
  • 13 Profish 1
  • 14 Darbie's Quality Seafood 1
  • 15 Dana's Cake Shoppe 1
  • 16 Lavender Moon Cupcakery 1
  • 17 Ocean City Seafood 1
  • 18 Bowers Fancy Dairy Products 1
  • 19 Belmont Farm Distillery 1
  • 20 MAS Seafood 1
  • 21 Gee's Liquor 1
  • 22 Firestone's Market on Market 1
  • 23 Culpeper Cheese Company 1
  • 24 Rosa Bakes 1
  • 25 Dragon Distillery, LLC 1
  • 26 Puerto Rico Distillery 1
  • 27 Simply Desserts 1
  • 28 Paste & Rind 1
  • 29 Copper Compass Craft Distilling Co. 1
  • 30 Capital Vending 1
  • 31 Shmidt Spirits 1
  • 32 Crosby's Crab Company 1
  • 33 Sangfroid Distilling 1
  • 34 Custom Cake Design 1
  • 35 The Urban Farmhouse 1
  • 36 Cool Cat Cupcakes 1
  • 37 Stricks Restaurant and Liquor Store 1
  • 38 Cotton & Reed 1
  • 39 Curbside Crabs and Seafood Company 1
  • 40 Bethesda Market 1
  • 41 Culligan Water of Central Virginia 1
  • 42 The Creamery 1
  • 43 Neopol Savory Smokery 1
  • 44 True Standard Distilling 1
  • 45 Fallen Oak Distilling 1
  • 46 A. Smith Bowman Distillery 1
  • 47 MurLarkey Distilled Spirits 1
  • 48 McClintock Distillery 1
  • 49 Lobster Maine-ia 1
  • 50 Flying Ace Farm 1

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