Annabelle Christmas
2132 Florida Avenue NW
This Christmas Eve, Annabelle will offer a four-course, prix fixe menu for in-house dining and curbside pickup, showcasing some of Executive Chef Frank Ruta’s most notable dishes, with items subject to availability. Annabelle’s menu features fresh and flavorful, locally inspired cuisine that tells the story of the growers and producers. The Christmas menu begins with urchin & peekytoe crab salad with apple coulis, cider vinaigrette and poppyseed tuile followed by a Dover sole fillet dieppoise with bouchot mussels, arrowhead spinach and sesame seed pastry. For the main course, enjoy a Maine lobster “pot roast” with sunchokes, leeks and mushroom tourné and Yorkshire pudding followed by a stuffed panettonewith mascarpone sorbet for dessert. The menu is priced at $75 per person (tax and gratuity not included). The complete a la carte menu will also be available from 4:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 24th, with prices ranging from $15 to $22 for appetizers, from $32 to $38 for entrées and $12 for desserts.
Annabelle’s exceptional locally inspired cuisine can also be savored at home as the restaurant will be offering three takeaway feasts available for carryout this Christmas. Choose from the Seven Hills prime rib and sides dinner, priced at $200 per couple, or $365 for a family of six (plus tax and gratuity); the Shenandoah rack of lamb and sides dinner, priced at $180 per couple, or $345 for a family of six (plus tax and gratuity); or the house cured & baked fresh ham and sides dinner priced at $175 per couple, or $315 for a family of six (plus tax and gratuity). Orders must be placed by Saturday, December 19th, with pick-up available from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 23rd, and from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 24th. For more information on Christmas offerings, please click here.