What To Eat: Christmas 2022

What To Eat: Christmas 2022

Save your energy for opening presents. Eat out for Christmas or let two local culinary notables prepare you the fanciest take-out you’ve ever seen.

Eat in with Take Out

A Charles Dickens Christmas from Chef Mark Kramer: In the world of take-out cuisine there is nothing more sublime, or at least more Dickensian than Chappaqua’s Susan Lawrence Gourmet Foods’ Charles Dickens Victorian Christmas menu. This a la carte menu offers a festive selection of hors d’oeuvre’s, holiday soups, entrees and sides, pastries, confections and breads. His signature dish is Stuffed Fresh Goose with herb bread stuffing, pre-basted with butter and brandy. Other highlights include a Baked Country Ham, Potato Gratin with sour cream, cheddar and chives, and Eggnog Brûlée Cheesecake, Red Raspberry Lattice Pie, and, of course, a Bûche de Noël. Read more.

Bedford Post Inn: Chopped Champion and four-time Michelin Recommended Chef, Roxanne Spruance is offering fully cooked, ready to heat four-course dinners for Christmas Eve or Day. Choose from an anchor entree of Leg of Lamb, Prime Rib or Cry Aged Duck. All menus start with Chestnut Soup, Winter Chicory Salad and end with a Bouche de Noel (espresso, meringue, mint). All meals are accompanied by Wild Rice Pilaf, Hasselback Potatoes, roasted winter squash and prosciutto wrapped haricot verts. Read more.

Eat Out

The Inn at Pound Ridge: On Christmas Eve Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Inn at Pound Ridge will offer à la carte brunch and dinner menus. On Christmas Day, you can enjoy a three-course, prix-fixe menu from 12-8pm that includes Faroe Island Salmon, Pan seared wild Hake, Roasted Maine Lobster, Roasted Duck Breast and Wagyu Beef Tenderloin for the entree course. Desserts include a Bûche de Noël, Decadent Chocolate Pudding Cake, and a Warm Apple Pie with shipped cream. Read More.

La Crémaillière in Banksville: Will offer a special Christmas Eve Tasting Menu. There will be two seatings. At 5:30pm and 8:30pm by reservation only. 

Goosefeather in Tarrytown: If a traditional Christmas dinner for you is served with chop sticks, Goosefeather from the James Beard nominated Chef Dale will be serving their amped up Cantonese cuisine that focuses on noodles, Canonese barbecue, and dumplings. Chef Dale has been a contestant and judge on Bravo’s Top Chef. He has also been a judge on the Food Network’s Chopped! and Beat Bobby Flay. Goosefeather is located in The King Mansion at the Tarrytown House Estate, high on the hill overlooking Washington Irving’s house Sunnyside. Read more.

Mulino’s in White Plains: Mulino’s is celebrating Christmas now and through January with their traditional display of Christmas décor, that features animated figurines and life0sized toy soldiers. They are open on Christmas Eve and will be serving their regular menu of northern Italian classics, such as Linguine Nere Con Coda D’Aragosts Marechiara: Black Linguine with baby lobster tails in a light tomato sauce; Carre D’agnello al Forno: Prime Rack of Lamb served with sage sauce; Scalopine al Tartufo: Veal Sauteed with Porcini mushrooms and white truffle butter with a touch of cream, Costaletta di Maile Principessa, a thin breaded Berkshire Pork chop sautéed with brandy and brown sauce.  Read More.

Benjamin’s Steakhouse in White Plains: Benjamin Steakhouse’s plus-size fireplace in the middle of their main dining room sets the stage for a festive Christmas Eve or Christmas Day dinner the whole family. You can dine from their a la carte menu on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day they are offering a prix fixe menu featuring lobster bisque, their highly rated bone-in ribeye steak, Norwegian salmon and New York Cheesecake. Read more.