It's Christmas time again, and that means time for feasts with family and friends, but aren't the holidays so much sweeter when someone else does the cooking?
If you're looking for a classic Christmas meal without the fuss, try one of these delightful and festive menus below.
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2050 University Ave, East Palo Alto, 640-470-2889 / Website
Taste the magic of the holidays at the Four Seasons’ beautiful Quattro. Serving dinner on Christmas Eve and a feast on Christmas Day, you have two chances to make the most of the holiday. Christmas Eve brings a "White Christmas" theme with smoked cherry honey-glazed leg of ham, russet potatoes and signature cocktails. Dessert is a thematic vanilla mousse with a liquid center. For Christmas Day, the feast includes 90-day aged beef striploin, pork cheek terrine, Alaskan salmon gravlax and a dessert buffet with festive cocktails. Don’t miss the Macallan tasting station!
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Left Bank Brasserie is wishing you a “Joyeux Noel” with Christmas Eve feasts that will tickle your senses. The French restaurant with locations in Larkspur, Menlo Park and Santana Row will be open for reservations from noon to 8 p.m. on Dec. 24 (except Santana Row which opens at 11 a.m.). Larkspur will include live music from 5 to 8 p.m., too! All will feature a three-course prix-fixe menu as well as a reduced price on its regular menu, and all items on the prix-fixe menu can be ordered a la carte.
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2825 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, 650-561-1500 / Website
Rosewood Hotel's Madera offers a Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day celebration. For $198 per person, you and yours can enjoy Cowgirl Creamery wagon wheel gougère, a first course of Dungeness crab salad and Rosewood private batch caviar. The second course brings chestnut and white alba truffle soup, the third a choice of dry-aged duck breast or Alaskan halibut, and dessert brings gingerbread cake, brandy, apples and ice cream. The menu and price is the same both nights, so eat up!
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