Holiday Dickensian Dinner

Schedule

Sun, 08 Dec, 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

1420 Locust Street, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50309 | Des Moines, IA

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Usher in the holiday season with a Dickensian dinner at Django!

Enjoy the flavors of Victorian England at this festive event. Enjoy a multi-course feast of historical dishes and recipes inspired by Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” prepared by Chef Partners Derek Eidson and George Formaro and the Django culinary team.

Meal includes a selection of appetizers, entrées, sides and desserts as well as a traditional welcome beverage. Beer, wine and themed cocktails available for purchase.

Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024
Doors and seating open at 5pm; dinner begins at 5:30pm.
Reinhardt Room / 1430 Locust Street, Des Moines
$125 / person + tax. Includes gratuity.

*Please note: seating will be at communal tables of eight.

MENU

ON THE TABLE / A bounty of Victorian delights inspired by "A Christmas Carol":
Apple Cakes
Brown Butter Chestnuts with Sage
Sugar Plums
Brawn
Scalloped Oysters
Mince Pies
Scotch Eggs
Stilton Welsh Rarebit with Walnut Ketchup

DINNER SERVICE
Sunchoke Soup
from a menu written by Dickens’s sister-in-law circa 1860

Cod with Oyster Sauce
served with cauliflower cheese

Sweetbreads with Peas and Truffles
served with winking onions

Quenelle of Chicken with Spinach
served with bread sauce

Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding with Gravy
erved with beef fat potatoes

Twelfth Cake
Get lucky: find the bean, wear the crown!
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1420 Locust Street, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50309

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