These Atlanta restaurants are open on Christmas Eve, and will be serving up good food and new memories come Dec. 24.
Celebrate at Chef Kevin Gillespie's Gunshow on Christmas Eve, featuring a holiday-themed menu of favorites from executive chef Joey Ward and the Gunshow team. Dine on such offerings as roast beast, Peking duck and ham. Last reservation is at 8:30 p.m. Reserve your seats: 404-380-1886, gunshowatl.com.
A Christmas wish answered with Southbound restaurant's fried chicken, which has been brined overnight, soaked in buttermilk and coated with their gluten-free dredge. They will also be offering a condensed version of their regular menu from 5 until 8 p.m. Reserve your seats.
Saltwood Charcuterie & Bar is serving a family-style Christmas dinner on Dec. 24 with a menu including smoked chestnut with ham hock, crunchy arugula and shaved asparagus salad, a selection of oysters, crab claws and steamed Georgia white shrimp, braised lamb shank, roasted Cornish hen, baked and stuffed flounder, assorted macaroons and more. This special menu is available from 5:30 to 10 p.m. for $65 per person. Reserve your seats: 404-745-5000, saltwoodatlanta.com.
Stop by Le Fat, Guy Wong's West Midtown Vietnamese brasserie, on Christmas Eve for the garlic chili prawns or a hearty helping of comfort food like the thit kho bowl, brimming with caramelized pork belly, pickled mustard greens, braised egg and grilled scallions. Wong's menu is his personal interpretation of Vietnamese food from his family to yours. Reserve your seats: 404-439-9850, lefatatl.com.
Channel the ocean at Atlantic Seafood Company, who will be offering a full sushi menu and seafood items on Christmas Eve, like cajun trout blanketed with a crab meat and cajun crawfish cream sauce, and orange-miso prawns with lemon braised rainbow chard, crispy shitake potato cake and roasted pork belly dashi. Reserve your seats.
"Twelve Days of Biddy" ends on Dec. 24 at Bantam + Biddy and Chick-a-Biddy with $3 sliders available until close (2 p.m. at Bantam + Biddy Crescent; 3 p.m. at Bantam + Biddy Ansley; or 6 p.m. at Chick-a-Biddy and Bantam + Biddy Avalon and Lenox Square). Reserve your seats: bantamandbiddy.com; chickabiddyatl.com.
The Christmas Eve dinner at Aqua blue is a three-course prix fixe menu of seafood gumbo or house salad, grilled ahi tuna with scallops and shrimp or grilled New York strip with coconut shrimp and warm chocolate cake or New York-style chocolate cheesecake. This $39 per person holiday dinner menu is available Dec. 18-24. Reserve your seats: 770-643-8886, aquablueatl.com.
10th & Piedmont is hosting a Christmas Eve dinner party that includes lobster bisque, cranberry and Camembert salad, an entrée of seared coffee-dusted duck breast with Chambord demi-glace or almond pesto-crusted Scottish salmon and red velvet cake. This special menu is available from 5 to 10 p.m. for $29.95 per person. Beverages, tax and gratuity not included. Reserve your seats: 404-602-5510, 10thp.com.
Treat your family and loved ones to a meal at CRÚ. The menu features pumpkin mascarpone ravioli, lobster bisque, filet mignon, cast iron seared sea scallops, lemon curd tart and egg nog crème brûlée. $40 for 3 course prix fixe or a la carte from noon until 11 p.m. Reserve your seats: cruawinebar.com.
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