Whether it’s a date with a lover or a gathering with friends, besides carefully selected gifts, Christmas is incomplete without a festive feast to share delicious food and celebrate the holiday with your loved ones! If you’re unsure which restaurant to choose for this Christmas, take a look at the following recommendations to see various special Christmas meals, plan carefully, and make a reservation for your Christmas feast!
//1. Vivienne Westwood Café//
Vivienne Westwood Café invites star chef Jeff Chan to bring a high-value five-course Southern French Michelin meal for this winter! The Christmas feast starts with crispy fried prawns with pea soup. This dish combines fresh raw prawns with French fried prawns, allowing you to taste the sweetness and elasticity of raw prawns, as well as the crispy texture of fried prawns. Paired with traditional English pea soup, the dish exudes a fresh oceanic vibe.
The second appetizer can be chosen from two options. The mushroom clear soup stewed foie gras is inspired by “autumn nourishment”, with the mushroom clear soup flavored with kombu, mushrooms, black truffle, and other ingredients, bringing out a rich and sweet taste. Paired with the Fusion cooking method of stewed foie gras, the whole dish has a more fragrant and rich flavor, achieving a warming effect. Earl Grey tea-smoked salmon is cooked at 48 to 52 degrees low temperature oil sealing, accompanied by a generous amount of smoky and salty North Pacific caviar, with a soft texture and rich layered taste.
Next up is the classic dish of Marseille seafood soup from southern France, which combines mussels, shrimp, potatoes, tomatoes, oranges, and other ingredients, along with Rouille sauce made from potatoes, garlic, and mayonnaise, creating a rich and flavorful taste. For the main course, there are two options: pan-seared monkfish with nutty butter sauce or seared slow-cooked beef tenderloin with passion fruit sauce. The former involves slow-cooking the fish roll first, then searing it with butter sauce and lemon juice, resulting in a tender and refreshing texture; while the latter offers a soft beef tenderloin paired with a sauce made from passion fruit and beef juice, balancing out the richness of the beef and making it irresistibly delicious.
Finally, it ends with a delicate dessert of red wine-infused peaches with red wine cranberry juice. Jeff specially selected the heartwarming autumn and winter essential drink, spiced red wine, which includes cinnamon, orange, raspberry, almond, and fresh sweet peaches. Not only is it fragrant, but when paired with red wine, it also brings a slight intoxicating feeling.
Vivienne Westwood Café
Price: HK$988 per person
Dates: December 3-4, December 10-11, December 17-18
Time: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Address: Shop F-8, 1/F, Fashion Walk, 27-47 Paterson Street, Causeway Bay
Phone: 2262 9393
Reservation: https://online.modamiahk.com/tc/vwfivecoursedinner (Reservation required one day in advance)
//2、Crust Italian//
If you are a “seafood lover,” pay attention to the upcoming Italian traditional “Feast of 13 Fishes” seafood Christmas dinner at Crust Italian in Wan Chai, where you can taste a total of 13 seafood dishes. This includes a series of classic Neapolitan dishes, such as ricotta cheese fried pizza with shrimp, Cristal oysters, and main courses like baked crab meat shell pasta, garlic white wine ink meat Italian pasta, and lemon zest roasted whole Italian sea bream, bringing a variety of fresh and tender seafood flavors!
Desserts include traditional Italian Christmas fruit bread (Panettone), sourced directly from the famous Amalfi dessert cafe Pasticceria Sal de Riso, with its aroma of lemon, candied fruit, and orange peel, full of flavors of the Italian coast. This traditional pastry is served with chantilly cream, Nutella hazelnut chocolate mousse, and Italian limoncello, bringing out layers of sweet flavors.
Crust Italian
Price: HK$698 per person (additional HK$200 for unlimited selected alcoholic beverages)
Date: December 23 to 26
Address: Shop A, G/F, 60A-66 Johnston Road, Wan Chai
Phone: 2191 0278
//3, A Note//
Uma Nota Christmas dinner combines Japanese and Brazilian flavors, including marinated sea bass with Brazilian berry yuzu and sesame seed yuzu vinegar marinated sea bass, cream banana crab rolls with Baikal fish roe cream, fried pork chive meatballs, tomato salad mixed with palm hearts, and scallops roasted with crispy shallots and yuzu butter, allowing foodies to indulge. The highlight dish on the Christmas menu is the roasted pork knuckle, with tender meat and enticing aroma, balanced with seasonal Japanese pear puree, roasted mushrooms, and asparagus salad, making it enjoyable even with multiple servings.
In addition to Christmas food, Uma Nota also brings Réveillon New Year’s Eve dinner, allowing everyone to countdown and celebrate the arrival of the new year with loved ones. In addition to yuzu vinegar marinated sea bass, sour cream banana crab rolls, yuzu butter grilled scallops, and beef skewers with Brazilian traditional roasted cassava flour, there is also a New Year’s Eve dinner exclusive miso grilled lobster, where fresh whole lobsters are brushed with sweet miso sauce, marinated with papaya, tender and appetizing. Finally, ending with a dessert of Brazilian chocolate mousse with guava sauce, using a vegan mousse made from 62% Valrhona chocolate from a single source in Brazil, as well as homemade chocolate “dirt” and guava sauce, emitting a rich chocolate aroma.
Uma Nota
Christmas Dinner:
Price: HK$550 per person
Date: December 24th to 25th
New Year’s Eve Dinner:
Date: December 31st
Price: Early Bird HK$690 per person; Night Owl HK$780 per person
Address: G/F, 38 Peel Street, Soho, Central
Phone: 28897576
//4、I Want More//
Quiero Más will bring a six-course dinner feast on Christmas Eve, December 24th, with appetizers including Iberian ham with crispy bread, sliced octopus with burrata cheese and black truffle, scallops with Dubarry cream and caviar, exuding Mediterranean flavors. Then choose between pan-seared sea bass, Iberian pork, or beef for the main course, and finally enjoy a festive dessert platter full of unique holiday treats, putting a perfect end to the meal.
I Want More
Price: HK$738 per person (additional HK$128 for 5g of shaved black truffle on any dish)
Date: December 24th
Time: 6:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Address: 20/F, M88, Wellington Place, 2-8 Wellington Street, Central
Phone: 2383 0268
//5、GIACOMO//
Fashionable Italian restaurant GIACOMO brings a festive feast featuring high-quality ingredients such as white truffles from the Alba region of Italy, precious foie gras, purebred Australian Mayura beef, and French Bresse chicken. The six-course “Christmas Eve Dinner Menu” includes dishes like “French Capellia oysters with Beluga sturgeon caviar and tomato jelly” and the signature “New Zealand deep-sea lobster with matsutake mushrooms and lobster sauce,” as well as the “French foie gras with chestnut sauce and hazelnuts” to enhance the richness and aroma of the foie gras. Enjoy the handmade Tagliolini pasta with fragrant white truffles in “Handmade Tagliolini with mushroom sauce and Italian Alba white truffles” at GIACOMO.
The main course features the “Wagyu Sirloin with Celery Root and Australian Winter Black Truffle” made from Mayura Wagyu from South Australia. The uniqueness of Mayura Wagyu lies in its chocolate-fed diet, giving the meat a silky texture, paired with refreshing celery root and winter black truffle, creating a flavorful experience. Finally, the dessert of “Raspberry White Chocolate Tart with Pistachio Gelato” exudes an enticing sweet and sour taste.
In addition to the Christmas Eve dinner, GIACOMO also offers a “Festive Evening Menu” on December 25, 26, and January 1, featuring “French Capellia oysters with Beluga sturgeon caviar and tomato jelly,” “French foie gras with chestnut juice and hazelnuts,” and “French Brittany blue lobster with potato dumplings.” The homemade potato dumplings combine tender flavors from southwestern France, creating a soft and chewy texture. There is also “Wagyu sirloin with celery root and Australian winter black truffle” and the exquisite “White truffle Italian gelato,” allowing everyone to embellish the holiday season with unforgettable truffle flavors and welcome the new year with joy.
GIACOMO
Christmas Eve Dinner Menu:
Price: HK$2,480
Date: December 24, 2021
Festive Dinner Menu:
Price: HK$2,880 per person
Dates: December 25 to 26, 2021; January 1, 2022
Address: G/F, 8 Lyndhurst Terrace, Causeway Bay
Phone: 3980 3008 or Whatsapp 6425 4918
//6、Moxie//
Who says you can’t “Go green” during the festive season? Located in Central, the Western vegetarian restaurant Moxie brings a variety of festive-themed vegetarian dishes. A must-try includes the “Warm Savory Tart” with fresh bitter leaves and cranberry sauce, wrapped in a walnut crust with brie cheese and mushrooms, crispy and rich, offering multiple flavors and textures.
Additionally, there are also Italian focaccia with vanilla toast, “Sweet Onion Soup” seasoned with thyme and grapefruit juniper berries, and “Vegan Pineapple Meat Pie” with chestnuts and bean sprouts, all full of Christmas atmosphere. Paired with the classic Christmas dessert “Italian Fruit Christmas Bread” with Amaretto almond cream, delicious and sweet!
Moxie
Date: December
Address: Shop 203, 2/F, Hilltop Mansion, 16-20 Chater Road, Central
Phone: 2718 8211
Image source and learn more: Vivienne Westwood Café, Crust Italian, Uma Nota, Moxie, GIACOMO, Quiero Más
