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DAC Nights: Breaking Bread
Breaking Bread is a film documentary that explores the A-Sham Festival, a groundbreaking food festival where Arab and Jewish chefs work in tandem to create mouthwatering dishes toward fostering social change. Note: Registration is required for this free screening; no-show tickets will be released five minutes before the film begins at 7:25pm.Wed., Dec. 21, 7pm. Free. -
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Olamaie & Little Ola's: Festive Breakfast Packs
This holiday season, the folks behind Olamaie and Little Ola’s want to ease your meal planning with the Family Breakfast Box. This packaged bounty of goodness includes six biscuits (with honey butter and apple butter), six cinnamon rolls, Southern breakfast casserole, and hot chocolate (or, if you prefer, virgin eggnog). This will feed about ten people and, tell you what, they'll love it. Note: Use the Toast Tab platform at either website and pick up the pack on 12/23 or 12/24.$120. -
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Salt & Time: Holiday Preorders
Go ahead, mix it up this holiday season with a stuffed lamb shoulder (with dates & pistachios) from these acclaimed magisters of meat. The festive dish makes an impressive center to any celebration – and the stuffing is gluten-free. Note: This is just one of many options available for pre-order, to be picked up on Dec. 21, 22, 23, 30, or 31. -
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Aba Mediterranean: Hanukkah Dine-in and Christmas Eve To-Go
We recently dined at Aba – thanks to the generosity of the bourbon masters at Garrison Brothers – and were, yeah, pretty much blown away by the excellence of the food there. No wonder people are ordering in advance to get this Christmas Eve Package for two that features wild mushroom hummus (pictured), whipped feta with persimmon, village salad, grilled chicken kebab, braised short rib, crispy brussels sprouts, and sticky date cake. ($118.) And, if you're dining in from Dec. 18-26, you can feast on such Hanukkah specials as parmesan and potato brussels sprout latkes, shawarma spiced brisket confit with sesame pumpkin puree currant gremolata, and more. -
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Carpenters Hall: Christmas Dinner
This lovely restaurant's got a special holiday feast available (on Christmas day and the previous evening) as a prix-fixe menu by reservation or even some walk-ups. How does butternut squash bisque, oysters Rockefeller, Natchitoches meat pies, carved New York strip roast, garlic mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, and more sound to you? Yeah – it's music to our ears as well. And – you can take home full orders of that Bûche de Noël dessert (with cream cheese buttercream, garnished with espresso powder, dark chocolate, sugared cranberry, and toasted coconut) and make all the sweet teeth in your family smile in gustatory pleasure. (Order ASAP, this primo confection goes fast!)Sat.-Sun., Dec. 24-25. $60 (prix-fixe dinner). -
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Garbo's: Dining in December
Looking for a seafood-based feast that's wonderful enough for the holidays? Listen, you can totally book a private dining room at Garbo's Fresh Maine Lobster for gathering with friends or family. Or bring the bounty to where you are, with Garbo's pick-up or drop-off platter-style catering for your office or home party needs. You could even have their Lobster Food Truck show up, if you wanted. Or, hell, put your cheffing chops on display with one of Garbo's DIY Maine Lobster Food Kits. Many choice, much crustacean. Also? OMG, key lime pies to go! -
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Garrison NYE at the Fairmont
The luxurious Fairmont Austin is one of Texas’ most festive holiday destinations this winter season, they say – and we reckon that's true. Bonus: The hotel’s acclaimed restaurant, Garrison, welcomes guests to ring in 2023 with a NYE tasting menu by executive chef Jakub Czyszczon. Pro tip: Ask about Room 725, a semi-private lounge that hosts the posh "Champagne & Caviar," for the snazziest of pre- or post-prandial experiences.Sat., Dec. 31, 5pm. $125. -
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Get Lit Hanukkah Pop-Up Bar
Josh Brownfield and team take over this popular Eastside bar with lively decorations and a special menu with Hanukkah-inspired cocktails, including Latke Punch, a play on the traditional dish made with potato vodka, apple cider, ginger liqueur, and lemon.Through Dec. 30 -
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Get Lit Hanukkah Pop-Up Bar
Josh Brownfield and team take over the bar with lively decorations and a special menu with Hanukkah-inspired cocktails, including Latke Punch, a play on the traditional dish made with potato vodka, apple cider, ginger liqueur, and lemon. Bonus: chef Amanda Rockman collabs for the eight days of Hanukkah (Dec. 18-26) with special treats, including rugelach with walnut, currant, and cinnamon sugar – and Jewboy Burgers pops up on Mon., Dec. 19, to serve sliders and latkes.Through Dec. 30 -
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Hotel Viata: NYE Prix-Fixe Dinner
Hotel Viata used to be known as Hotel Granduca – it was a fine place then and it's a fine place now – and their Laurel restaurant, still the province of executive chef Tommy Suddeth, is hosting a New Year's Eve prix-fixe five-course dinner. The feast, in that elegant venue on the near edge of the Texas Hill Country, includes paella arancini, striped bass, Linz Heritage Angus beef tenderloin, a morello cherry dessert, and (of course!) two glasses of bubbly. Reservations can be made on OpenTable.Sat., Dec. 31, seatings begin at 7pm. $150. -
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L'Oca d'Oro: Don't Worry, Darling NYE
L’Oca d’Oro is celebrating the coming of the new year in 1950s style, with multiple seatings throughout the night and dishes inspired by the critically-acclaimed film. (SPOILER ALERT: The dessert is a Creamsicle Baked Alaska.) And, after dinner service ends at 10pm, the restaurant will remain open with a limited bar menu to usher you into 2023, with seating indoors and on their heated patio. Don't worry, darling – but do make those reservations while you can.Sat., Dec. 31. $100. -
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L'Oca d'Oro: Feast of Seven Fishes
L'Oca d'Oro presents this traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner, celebrated in chef Fiore Tedesco's family since he was a kid, with a varied menu of fish primarily from the Adriatic Sea in Sicily. The multicourse dinner features seven fishes along with sides and desserts. The whole thing, a feast of flavor and festivity.Fri.-Sat., Dec. 23-24. $100 per person. -
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Lick Honest ICe Creams: Holiday Flavors & Cocoa Kits
Made with products from nearby farms and milk from happy cows, Lick’s seasonal flavors include Candied Pecan & Bourbon, Red Velvet, Iced Sugar Cookie, Gingerbread, Peppermint Bark, and two vegan flavors – Plum Rum Ball and No-Egg Nog. (Enjoy 'em at any of the local scoop shops or buy by-the-pint to take home and pair with your own holiday family recipes.) And those cocoa kits? Mmmm, they include speckled ceramic mugs with a “But First, Ice Cream” slogan and glass jars of specialty hot cocoa mix made with local favorite SRSLY chocolate, homemade candied Pecans, handmade vanilla marshmallows, and ice cream scoops. -
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Meanwhile Brewing: Holiday Beer Releases
Meanwhile, back at the North Pole … this local powerhouse of fermentation's got a fine lineup of special holiday brews for your Texas-sized thirst: Cranberry Sour, a 4.2% ABV fruited Berliner weisse; Fireside, a collab with Guerilla Suit that's resulted in an 11% ABV winter ale aged in Balcones Whiskey barrels; Jolly, made with a Vienna lager base and spruce tips; and Tip of the Hat, a 7.5% ABV West Coast IPA. -
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Miracle on Fifth Street
Yes, the Eleanor is featuring a drink menu filled with festive holiday-themed libations, thanks to Master Miracle cocktail connoisseur, Joann Spiegel. Choose from options like Snowball Old Fashioned, Christmapolitan, Jingle Balls Nog, SanTaRex, and many more. Of course the main and mezzanine bar will be serving their full menus but you can also avail yourself of the Ski Lodge with Miracle's signature shots served on a Shot Ski. It's a refreshing and wintery wonderland, and note: 10% of all to-go proceeds will be donated to the Austin Children’s Shelter, Austin Pets Alive!, and the James Beard Foundation Open for Good campaign.Through Dec. 27. $10-600. -
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NYE at APT 115
This, as you may have read elsewhere, is the East Austin retro-fancy wine bar & restaurant that's got the innovative culinary wizard chef Charles Zhuo running the kitchen. And for New Year's Eve, the maestro is offering a 10-course tasting menu – a delightfully decadent experience for all your senses – with optional wine pairings. Truth: Best to book this one quickly, 'fore it sells out.Sat., Dec. 31. $150. -
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Supper Friends: Réveillon
It's kind of like new year's eve's eve! Réveillon is a historically French celebration, centered around the Christmas eve and new year's eve dinner. This multicourse culinary delight in the elegant Swoop House excels with crostini with duck confit, truffled deviled eggs, beef tenderloin popovers. oysters Rockefeller, and rainbow beet salad – and that's before the mains of seafood gumbo (a la Sawyer & Co.) and beef short rib with crispy shallots. And Cherries Jubilee with vanilla ice cream will finish off you night in sweet, sweet style. Wine pairings are available for more, naturally, but the bright camaraderie is gratis.Fri., Dec. 30, 7pm. $80. -
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Z'Tejas: Grandma's Eggnog
Looking for a perfect holiday nog, citizen? Z’Tejas is bringing back their homemade mi abuelita eggnog for just two weeks. Conjured from the executive chef’s grandmother’s recipe, this creamy cocktail is bright with spices and spiked with rum, available at the West Sixth and the Avery Ranch locations.Through Dec. 31. $14. -
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