Soon people all over the world will be celebrating the holidays with a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day dinner. In Australia, where Christmas dinner is celebrated in the heat of the Summer Holiday for students, families gather indoors and out for barbeques and picnics in backyards, parks, and on beaches. Adults in Denmark enjoy their Christmas Eve dinners with hot glogg – hot wine brought to a boil with raisins, nuts, and spices. No matter where we are or where we’re from, Christmas dinner in Napa Valley is a time for family and friends to get together and share a delicious meal.
Entrance to Bardessono in Napa Valley
Bardessono in Napa Valley invites you, your friends, and family to share Christmas Eve or Christmas Day dinner with a special menu created by Bardessono Executive Chef Sean O’Toole. In keeping with Bardessono restaurant’s commitment to using fresh local ingredients, Chef O’Toole has created a multi-course menu incorporating ingredients from local farms.
For the first course, guests can choose between Maine Lobster Cappuccino or Hill Family Farm Sunchoke Soup. This is the first of many difficult choices from this exciting menu! The Maine Lobster Cappuccino, served with chestnut, candy cap mushrooms, and Meyer lemon, tastes like a classic lobster bisque and is topped with froth. The Sunchoke, with its delicate flavor similar to a cross between jicama and water chestnuts, combines deliciously with croutons and the aromatic black trumpet mushrooms.
Bardessono Executive Chef O'Toole
Two salads will be served family style: Winter Salad of Hale Farm apples, avocado, candied walnuts, and black truffle vinaigrette; and Star Route Farm Beet Salad of pistachios, sylvetta (wild, organic arugula), burrata cheese made of Mozzarella and cream, and sherry vinegar.
The next course presents a difficult choice between four delicious entrees – especially if you enjoy steak, fish, and chicken, equally. A Marin Sun Farm Beef Roasted Rib Eye will be served with beef jus and one of my favorite things – carmelized shallots. The choices for fish include two different truffle sauces. A Truffled Lobster Sauce will accompany the Bodega Bay Halibut and a Spicy Truffle Vinaigrette will compliment an Atlantic Stripped Bass. If you prefer chicken, a Roasted Breast and Lemon Glazed Thigh of Clucky Plucky Chicken will also be served.
The final challenge, one that I’m sure anyone will be up for, will be deciding which scrumptious dessert to choose. There will be Desantis Farm lemon pudding, Satsuma Mandarin consumme citrus salad, and the traditional French Buche de Noel. Click here to view the complete menu including more accompaniments to be served family style.
Inside the Restaurant at Bardessono
Treat yourself and your loved ones to an unforgettable Christmas feast in the luxury and safety of a private Napa Wine Tours vehicle. Your private chauffeur will pick you up from a location most convenient for you and will make sure you arrive on time for your special dinner reservation.
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