Café Promenade Offers Champagne Brunch and Holiday Dinner. Be sure to book this week!

For those dreaming of a white Christmas, at The Renaissance Mayflower’s Café Promenade, the tint may come in the form of foam this year rather than snow. This December 25^th, the season will be brighter as the historic restaurant offers meals to put a smile on any Grinch’s face.

All day long, Café Promenade will serve a lavish Sunday brunch buffet featuring Moet & Chandon Champagne and a menu that includes such delights as classic breakfast dishes, fresh salads, seafood bar, soups, international cheeses, epicurean entrees, sides and a selection of holiday desserts from pastry chef Stephane Giannoni. Christmas Day brunch will be served from 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Later in the day, Café promenade features a lavish $65 prix fixe four-course dinner with savory selections including hearty New England style clam chowder or ginger-butternut squash soup, followed by Grilled Frisee’ Salad and Yellow Fin Tuna carpaccio with orange balsamic drips; golden & red beets, Vermont goat cheese, and caramelized walnuts or fresh pulled Mozzarella, baby arugula and herb crostini with Balsamic glaze. A mouth watering entrée selection includes Maryland crab cakes with red pepper coulis; roasted free range chicken half with Charmola sauce; tenderloin of beef with Cabernet mushroom sauce; rack of New Zealand lamb with Dijon-Merlot reduction or grilled vegetable mosaic, in puff pastry, as well as a choice of side dishes. The meal concludes with the perfect sweet finish of seasonal berries with Sabayon; bread pudding accompanied by Crème Anglaise or chocolate lava cake. Holiday dinner seatings are 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Café Promenade in The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW. For reservations call (202) 347-2233 or go to www.cafepromenade.com.