Call up Art and Soul 24 hours in advance starting Memorial Day weekend, then stop by the Capitol Hill restaurant for a picnic lunch for two. Choices include fried chicken and potato salad for $35, smoked turkey and avocado on focaccia for $32, or a selection of Executive Chef Wes Morton's charcuterie with cheese, a baguette, pickles and crackers for $30. All meals come with whole fruit, cookies, and water, as well as a jarred mixer with a cocktail recipe — just add alcohol.

Cathal and Meshelle Armstrong's food emporium in Alexandria offers a $50 "ultimate to-go picnic bag" for local pickup. That includes a bottle of Ponga Pinot Noir with a screw cap top, artisanal cheeses, prosciutto, salami, hummus, pita chips, crostini, olives, nuts, and chocolate chip cookies. Plastic wine glasses, plates, and utensils are thoughtfully provided. Also at Society Fair, find Todd Thrasher’s to-go cocktail mixes, in varieties like Thyme Lime and Thrasher’s Tiki Mix.

Cork Market offers two choices for their specialty picnic baskets: go with a $25 sandwiches-for-two basket, or the chicken basket for $40, with a choice of herb-marinated buttermilk fried chicken or Peruvian grilled chicken. Each basket comes with picnic-ready sides like cookies and honey mint fruit salad, and a bottle of wine can be added for an additional price.

Take a Central favorite on the road with Michel's Fried Chicken Bucket. Every box comes with six chicken nuggets, house-made dijon and mayo sauce, mashed potatoes and either two, four, or six pieces of fried chicken.

Sidle up to Pearl Dive Oyster Palace's to-go window and pick up a fried chicken dinner for two for $20. That includes a bucket with six pieces of dark meat chicken, four scallion corn bread muffins, and two sides, like braised collard greens, slaw, or mac and cheese.

This new market, bar, and deli in Dupont Circle is already stocked with tons of picnic supplies, but starting Memorial Day weekend, customers will be able to take home customized picnic baskets filled with local cheese, jams, house-made charcuterie, bread from Lyon Bakery, local craft beers, wines from Virginia and New York.

An egg salad sandwich or smoked salmon pastrami combined with potato salad from DGS Delicatessen's new sandwich counter might make for a great picnic lunch. The “Sandwich Shop” counter opened May 7.

Picnic-ready sandwiches at the newish WTF include a duck reuben on rye, shrimp salad roll, and fried chicken breast with cranberry relish on a toasted bun.

Bayou Bakery’s entire menu is available to-go a la carte, so deviled eggs and pimento cheese spread and cheese straws would be ready to pack for a picnic.

Will there be a grill near your picnic? Both locations of Red Apron are offering a Summer Burger Series. For $25, customers can order a Memorial Day package which includes 4 Patties of Red Apron Blend, 4 oz. of Righteous Cheese's Pick of the Week, Gordy's Pickle Chips, a tomato and 4 Brioche Buns Freshly Baked by Tiffany MacIsaac. Pre-order is recommended, as a limited number of packages will be available.