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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Party size
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