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BY NICOLE LEVY Grand Central Station makes for PIERRE MONETTA [email protected] a convenient meeting place. In Benoit The Alain Ducasse accordance with Italian tradition, French bistro is known for he multicourse the restaurant is serving a its artistic takes on the T affairs that are three-course, meatless Feast of classic yule log cake. This Christmas Eve and the Seven Fishes on Christmas year’s features chestnut Christmas Day dinner Eve. Waiters will bring you a live jazz mousse and Amarena
typically dirty several tall chilled seafood salad to start; music from 5 LE COQ RICO cherry atop a coconut stacks of dishes, so we cast baked clams with creamy p.m.-midnight on dacquoise, which is all no aspersions on New spinach, parmigiano, anchovy Christmas Eve. coated in red glaze. Yorkers who’d prefer to gremolata and salmon roe as Menu highlights Available for pickup now take the easy way out. The your second course; and Asian include: house-made through Dec. 25 (must city offers all kinds of sea bass, mussels and Maine tagliatelle with order 24 hours in advance), options for dining out with lobster cooked in a spicy San Maine lobster $45/serves 6-8; 60 W. 55th family and friends. Marzano tomato sauce as your ragu and tomato St., 646-943-7373, Here’s a look at some of main course. $75/person; cream sauce; a benoitny.com the restaurants open for 447 Lexington Ave., bouillabaisse the holiday. 212-661-4810, davios.com with pan-seared Kreuther Handcrafted striped bass, Chocolate Gabriel Chinese tradition at Greek feast at Molyvos mussels, clams, Kreuther’s upscale Rice & Gold Go Greek on Christmas Eve with and prawns in a Davio’s is all chocolate It’s no surprise that chef Dale a three-course prix-fixe dinner at lobster broth; and about fish. side gig is Talde’s Asian-American eatery the midtown restaurant. You’ll brioche bread pudding. naturally at Hotel 50 Bowery would be have two options for each $95 per person; 9 E. 37th offering a offering a dim sum menu on course: a jumbo lump crabcake St., 212-725-3866, decadent DAVIO’S Christmas Eve. From 1 to 8 p.m., or a marouli salad as an appe- fineandrare.nyc bûche de you can order dishes that riff on tizer; grilled Atlantic salmon with noël. the Jewish tradition of eating a wild mushroom and roasted Italian specialties at Literally Chinese food on the Christian butternut squash rice pilaf or Antica Pesa served Steakhouse prix fixe at called
holiday: Shrimp toast laktes slow-roasted Vermont organic The sister restaurant of a with waffle potato chips and Maxwell’s Chophouse “the BECCAPR / DANIELLE ADAMS come with Thai chili and cilantro; baby lamb in an Ionian garlic seasoned Roman eatery, Antica chickpea cream, $20); pasta This NoMad steakhouse will decadent,” it features dark rabbi’s ramen incorporates sauce as an entree; and Meyer Pesa is taking reservations for such as house-made ravioli offer up a special prix-fixe menu and milk chocolate matzo balls into the noodle mix; lemon chocolate cake with three seatings on both Christ- stuffed with beef cheek ($34); featuring options like an apricot- mousse, pistachio creme and pastrami pot stickers are vanilla yogurt whipped cream or mas Eve and Christmas Day. entrees like a grilled branzino glazed pork chop served over brûlée and chocolate also stuffed with rye sauerkraut, a Greek phyllo pastry filled with From a special a la carte menu, fillet finished with a dried porcini walnut bread pudding and a brownie. Available for Swiss cheese and Chinese semolina custard as dessert. order antipasti like fish and mushroom consommé; and bouillabaisse packed with pickup now through Dec. 24 mustard. $45/person; $65/person, $100 with Greek chips romanesco (fried cod dessert such as torrone al pan-seared sea bass, shrimp, (pre-order by phone), 50 Bowery, 646-630-8055, wine pairings; 871 Seventh Ave., cioccolato, a traditional Italian lobster, clams and roasted $46/serves 8-10; 43 W.
riceandgoldnyc.com 212-582-7500, molyvos.com THE PIERRE confection made with dark tomatoes. Desserts include hot 42nd St., 212-201-1985, chocolate and nuts. chocolate crème brûlée with kreutherchocolate.com Michelin-starred meal at Live jazz at Fine & Rare Seatings at 5:30, 7:30 and peppermint whipped cream. Aureole The cocktail bar known for 9:30 p.m.; 115 Berry St., The full dinner menu will also be Jacques Torres Mr. Dig into a three-course meal at its selection of rare spirits is Pear at Williamsburg, 347-763- available. $74/person, 1184 Chocolate has teamed with
amny.com this Michelin-starred, luxurious serving up a four-course Perrine 2635, anticapesa.com Broadway, 212-481-1184, Francois Payard to offer the spot on Christmas Eve, with fishy feast accompanied by maxwellschophouse.com latter’s pies and bûche de selections like Wagyu beef Christmas goose at noëls this holiday, including carpaccio and goat milk risotto Le Coq Rico A decadent meal at Perrine “the ultimate” bûche: layers as appetizers, beef tenderloin What’s Christmas without a Inside the opulent Pierre hotel of Jacques Torres’ with creamy truffle potatoes Christmas goose, right? You can facing Central Park, Perrine is chocolate chip cookies, and marinated root vegetables, expect the poultry-focused serving lunch and dinner on chocolate and poached lobster in a French bistro to have one on its both Christmas Eve and Christ- crémeux, coconut broth as entrees and three-course prix-fixe menu for mas Day. Start off your three- chocolate winter squash cheesecake and lunch and dinner on Christmas course prix-fixe meal with arctic mousse chocolate torte as desserts. Eve and Christmas Day. The char tartare or roasted beet and
and JACQUES TORRES $125/person, 212-319-1660, stuffed, roasted goose comes pear salad. For an entree, chocolate charliepalmer.com with potato gnocchi, sour cream options include braised short poundcake. Available for and apple cinnamon-flavored ribs with truffle fingerling purée. pickup Dec. 23 or 24 Feast of the Seven Fishes red cabbage. Dessert is a Satisfy your sweet tooth with (preorder online),
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2017 at Davio’s meringue snowman that’s Bosc pear and almond frangi- $29/serves 4-6; If you have family taking Metro- almost too adorable to eat. pane or traditional English 350 Hudson St., North into the city for Christ- $98/person; 30 E. 20th St., Christmas pudding. 285 Amsterdam Ave. or
mas, the upscale Northern ANTICA PESA Manhattan, 212-267-7426, $95/person; 2 E. 61st St., 66 Water St., DUMBO, Italian steakhouse across from Antica Pesa is serving specials on Christmas Eve and Day. lecoqriconyc.com 212-940-8195, perrinenyc.com mrchocolate.com amNewYork,