As the year is about to end and with the Christmas holidays just around the corner, it is time to enjoy this special time and let yourself be carried away by the magic that surrounds it. The shop windows are decorated with garlands, elves, stars and lights, many lights, like those that shine on the streets at nightfall, creating a magical and cozy atmosphere. Christmas, a time for family, hasty shopping, decorations and gifts, is also a time to sit at the table and enjoy a delicious feast. Delicious dishes, prepared with care, local products, the best kept family recipes and full glasses, with or without bubbles.
And if at home we prepare to surprise and enjoy, restaurants and hotels dress in their best clothes. From the most traditional family meal to the most sophisticated party, the establishments have menus thought out down to the last detail. Exquisite delicacies, the best products and a lot of imagination for the best banquets of the year.
When Christmas arrives, the Palace Barcelona is filled with the Christmas spirit and a warm and magical atmosphere that is reflected in every corner of the hotel. Garlands, lights and fir leaves cover everything, here the saying “less is more” has no place. And around this time, the roof garden is transformed into a cozy wooden cabin in the Alps but with views of Barcelona. A warm place where you want to try the different proposals prepared by chef Jesús Caballero. He starts the menu with different appetizers to share, a main dish to choose from three or four options and a dessert, accompanied by national DO wines.
The Christmas Eve dinner can be enjoyed for a price of 130 euros in both the Gran Vía Room and the Rooftop Garden, the Christmas meal for 145 euros also in both spaces and the San Esteban meal, so traditional in Catalonia, for 99 euros at Rooftop and Hall where you can taste typical dishes such as escudella, galets and truffle ball or roast cannelloni with Comté cheese cream.
The Santo Mauro, a 19th century French palace located in the Salmanca neighborhood, one of the most elegant in Madrid, dresses up during the Christmas holidays; Marbles, mirrors and bronzes shine more than ever in this hotel from Marriott’s Luxury Collection division, the perfect setting for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve dinners and New Year’s brunch. The famous chef Rafa Peña has prepared two wonderful culinary proposals based on seasonal dishes. The Christmas Eve menu begins with four suggestive appetizers and three main dishes and desserts, paired with national wine and champagne. Among the dishes you can taste delicacies such as crayfish suquet with ginger and saffron and desserts of creamy chocolate cake with hazelnut ice cream and coffee. At a price of 210 euros. On New Year’s Eve you start with a cocktail with five appetizers, four main courses and a dessert, at a price of 330 euros.
David Romero and Nandu Jubany form an indissoluble tandem in the Majestic kitchens. Two chefs with a lot of experience who perfectly combine tradition and avant-garde in a menu that uses local products, so much so that even the vegetables are from the garden they have in Maresme. For these dates, their proposal includes a parade of incredible dishes. These are their proposals: Christmas Eve dinner with four appetizers, three main dishes, desserts and nougats for 120 euros, the special Christmas brunch is made up of eleven dishes and seven desserts for 145 euros: and San Esteban with five appetizers, three dishes and desserts at 105 euros per diner; and on New Year’s Eve a tasting menu with eleven dishes, grapes and party favors for 385 euros, where you can taste Oscietra caviar, national lobster, Delta prawn and XL Galician cockles with codium seaweed and tomato water geleé with vodka. All proposals are accompanied with wine.
The W Hotel prepares a New Year’s Eve inspired by the Mediterranean that can be seen from any of its windows. They will recreate a journey through the deep sea and the night will be full of live performances, fun, fireworks and culinary experiences that will have seafood as a leitmotiv, with dishes such as a creamy Tahitian vanilla pearl, dark chocolate coral, Basil brioche, soil from the seabed. The proposal will start with five appetizers, two starters, a main and desserts and nougats. There is also a vegan proposal. Fireworks over the sea will mark the beginning of the party, with an open bar until two in the morning. The price is 500 euros per person, but there is a proposal to have dinner and sleep at the hotel for 1,235 for two people.
Elegant and stately, the Urso is a charming boutique hotel, located in the Chueca neighborhood, not only preparing to celebrate unforgettable evenings in its greenhouse restaurant and private rooms, it also celebrates the afternoons with chocolate and churros or champagne and piano. The Urso will become the perfect setting to enjoy very special evenings during Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, with traditional recipes but with the magical touch of chef Antonio del Álamo that will make diners feel comfortable, at home, with dishes such as the boneless roast goat shoulder with its juice, braised endives and roasted beets. The Christmas Eve menu is priced at 199 euros and the New Year’s Eve menu at 299 euros.
It is impossible to resist the magic of the Four Seasons Hotel Madrid at Christmas. Its decoration is captivating and its spaces are meeting places for friends wanting to celebrate. This year the hotel has obtained position 24 on the list of the 50 best hotels in the world, so there are plenty of reasons to celebrate Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve in style, with menus designed by its chefs and sommeliers with the best gastronomic products. Spanish, including the teardrop pea, the pularda and the wild turbot. The price varies depending on the room where the meal is held.
Haute cuisine, signature gastronomy and the best product from Spain is the proposal of chef Mario Sandoval (two Michelin stars), suitable for demanding palates. Blue crab with spicy American sauce or Galician-style wild grouper to celebrate Christmas Eve, to say goodbye to the year Sandoval proposes carabinero and sirloin Wellington on a table set with exquisite taste, linen tablecloth and English tableware. It will be like dining in a French palace. For the Three Kings’ Day brunch, they save the traditional roscón signed by Mario Sandoval, one of the best in Spain. Christmas Eve menu price at 345 euros, and New Year’s Eve menu price at 445 euros.
The most intimate and luxurious Christmas is experienced in an iconic hotel in Marbella, with a careful gastronomic offer with sophisticated menus, top quality products and an excellent wine and champagne list. The year says goodbye with top-notch gastronomic events, both in its Clubhouse and in other private spaces. Some plans that also include the little ones who will have fun at the best Kids Club in Spain. There will also be time to pamper yourself in a majestic wellness spa, to learn how to make Christmas wreaths (a very relaxing activity, by the way), and to stroll along the beach of this historic hotel. Various prices and proposals.
