We’re open until 9pm this Friday and 8pm on Saturday, with complete supplies for all your new year festivities.

In this post, we’re featuring some new treats along with some special limited edition items that won’t be available for much longer.

BRUNCH

Hosting brunch on New Year’s Day? Save time and impress your friends with an Ovenly brunch basket. Pre-order today for a complete pastry basket featuring delicious scones, muffins and cookies for 6-8 people for just $30.

BREWS

We still have a few bottles left of Brooklyn Brewery’s 2011 edition of Black Ops! This rich stout aged in bourbon barrels is perfect for ringing in the new year, or for aging until next year for extra complex flavors.

In the 6-pack department, for another dark winter treat, try Left Hand’s Fade to Black 3 ale, a slightly spicy peppered porter. Or go for the hops with a 6-pack of Hop Notch IPA, a bright and refreshing ale with a strong hop character, from Salt Lake City’s solar- and wind-powered Uinta Brewing Co.

Original Sin has delivered a couple special new hard ciders: the dry Newtown Pippin is made exclusively from this variety of apple, which was first bred in Queens along the banks of the Newtown Creek in the early 18th century. The Cherry Tree cider adds just the right amount of sweetness.

Foggy Ridge is another new addition to the cider department. From Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Foggy Ridge ciders are, crisp, dry and refreshing, great with food or on their own.

CHEESE

Twig Farm Washed Rind Wheel is a creamy, luxurious cheese that won’t last here much past the new year. The washed rind adds a touch of funk, somewhat like a Munster, tempered by sweetness and a beautifully fluffy texture. Vermont’s Twig Farm combines raw goat and cow milk to make this beauty.

We’re down to our last half-wheel of this year’s Rogue River Blue, one of my absolute favorite cheeses. Wrapped in pear brandy-soaked grape leaves, it marries a complex blend of milky, spicy, nutty and dried fruit flavors. From Oregon’s Rogue Creamery, the US’s premier blue cheese maker.

We’ve also received a limited quantity of Rush Creek Reserve, a new style from Wisconsin’s Uplands Cheese Company, makers of Pleasant Ridge Reserve. Inspired by the French Vacherin Mont D’Or, Rush Creek is made from rich autumn cow’s milk and wrapped in spruce bark. The result is a luscious, savory, gooey treat.

SNACKS

Sugarbuilt cookies are the perfect gift for a host or hostess this new year. The beautiful designs are inspired by architectural elements from the Brooklyn Bridge and the ironwork gates of Greenpoint, and the zesty spiced cookies are simply delicious.

You may have sampled some of Creminelli’s awesome Casalingo or Piccante Salamis here before. We brought in a couple other Creminelli specials for the holidays: a rich, savory Wild Boar Salami, packed with flavor but without any gaminess; and a black truffle-packed Tartufo, a luxurious addition to a holiday cheese plate.

We are the first store ANYWHERE to carry Ruby Bay Wild King Salmon Jerky! Just in today from our friends at Greenpoint’s Acme Smoked Fish, this salty, smoky, all-natural jerky comes in peppered and teriyaki flavors, and will be irresistible to any salmon fan.

Thank you all for a wonderful 2011. We wish you a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Eastern District has a brand new collection of gift bags for the holidays!

We’re offering three different selections of the most delicious New York State-made products, at three different price levels. Each roomy canvas tote bag comes with a card telling the stories of the items inside.

You can order a bag here on the website if you’d like to have it shipped directly to the recipient. Or if you’d like to pick it up here at the store, just call or email us with your order.

Gifts will be shipped out as the orders are received – please note in your order if you’d like us to save the shipping until a later date.

We also love creating customized gift bags, so drop us a line if you have any special requests. Happy gifting!

Small
$25
Includes:

• Eastern District Tote Bag
• 1/2 Pound NY Cheese (Your choice of Stella Vallis, Frere Fumant or Kunik)
• Z Crackers

Medium
$50
Includes all of the above plus:

• Brooklyn Brine Pickles
• Ovenly Spiced Nuts
• Anarchy In a Jar Jam
• Raaka Chocolate bar

Large
$100
Includes all of the above plus:

• 2 Additional 1/2 Pounds of NY Cheese
• Liddabit Sweets Sea Salt Caramels
• P&H Soda Syrup

DELIVERIES

You asked for it, and you got it. WE DELIVER!

We’re offering free delivery throughout Greenpoint for all orders over $10.

Our sandwich menu is online at http://easterndistrictny.com/menus.php – you can also order beer, cheese, party platters, or anything else we offer in the store.

Call us at 718-349-1432 to ask about our daily specials or to place an order. Online ordering will be available soon.

NEW PRODUCTS

Soup!
Just in time for wintery weather, we now sell hot soup made by Sea Bean Goods. You may have tasted this Greenpoint couple’s delicious, seasonal recipes at Paulie Gee’s or Smorgasburg. This week they made us potato leek soup with ham, and we’ll have a rotating menu of soups all year long.

Beers
-  Some winter seasonal bottles are sneaking into our beer case – like Troegs Mad Elf, a Belgian-style ale with honey and cherries for a subtle sweetness. At 11% ABV, it will heat you up on a chilly night!
- Another great beer to drink while relaxing in front of the fireplace, Victory Otto is a smoked Belgian style ale with 8.1% ABV.
- If you prefer to celebrate the harvest season, try out this year’s new batch of Two Brothers Heavy Handed IPA, which is wet-hopped with fresh hop flowers, for a bright, piney, citrusy flavor.
- For Pretty Things fans, we now have this winter’s edition of Babayaga, a hearty stout made with rosemary-smoked malt.

Cheeses
- We’re very excited to now carry Ben’s Cream Cheese! Seriously, it’s the best cream cheese you’ve ever tasted – all-natural, with no gums or fillers. It’s made in Spring Valley, NY, just west of the city, the same way it was made for decades on the Lower East Side. The real deal!
- We have our first cheese from Idaho! Lark’s Meadow Helen is a hard, crumbly cheese made from cow’s milk. It has a sweet, grassy, buttermilk flavor.
- Back again for the holiday season is Capriole O’Banon, a creamy, mild chevre from Indiana, wrapped in Kentucky bourbon-soaked chestnut leaves.

Snacks
- If you’ve got any kind of sweet tooth at all, you need to try Whimsy & Spice cookies. They come in unique and spectacular flavor combinations, like Chocolate Orange Cardamom Shortbread and Massaman Curry Peanut Butter Sandwiches. No, they’re not just weird for the sake of weirdness – these flavors will really knock you out!
- We just added Raaka Chocolate to our collection of Brooklyn-made sweets. Made from organic cacao and other fabulous ingredients, they come wrapped in super-stylish papers.

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We were interviewed for a cool article in the beer & food magazine, Draft, talking about some of our favorite spots for food-related gifts. Check it out: http://draftmag.com/features/nycs-best-foodie-gifts/