Westin Pre-Christmas Saturday brunch.[Photo provided to China Daily]

Migas

Spanish Christmas here starts with roast eel with cauliflower puree and caviar foie gras topped with red-wine veil and macadamia cloud. Migas' six-course set menu includes delectable dishes from foie gras to Iberian pork. 428 RMB per person (to include wine, add 240). Next week's New Year's Eve menu starts at 538 yuan, and includes a ticket to the Migas New Year's Eve party.

Dec 24-25, 6/F, Nali Patio, 81 Sanlitun Lu, Chaoyang district. 010-5208-6061.

The Cut

Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day lunch and dinner will feature Australian Wagyu MS 5+ filet mignon with gin and juniper gravy, creamy bacon polenta and port-wine shallots, traditional Christmas turkey from the trolley, pan-fried diver scallops. The six-course set menu is 2,188 yuan per couple, including wine pairing.

Dec 24-25; in the Fairmont Beijing Hotel, Yong'an Dongli, Chaoyang district. 010-8507-3618.

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Blue Frog

The special Christmas Day lunch menu features creamy potato and leek soup, oven-roasted turkey, mashed sweet potatoes, cornbread stuffing, butter sauteed green beans and giblet plum gravy. Save a little room: There's chestnut cheesecake for dessert.

Dec 25; 248 yuan per person; various locations.

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