Not in the mood to cook for a crowd again? Head to one of these L.A. restaurants open on Christmas Eve and Day for excellent, hassle-free Christmas dinner.
If you're spending this December checking out holiday lights, decorating your tree and shopping for gifts, you might not exactly have the mental bandwidth to plan, shop and cook for a big Christmas gathering at home. That's where some of L.A.’s best restaurants come in. Whether you're hoping to dine in this year or don't celebrate Christmas at all (the best Chinese restaurants, anyone?), we've gathered the best restaurants open for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2024.
Take advantage of your ability to leave the house this year, support L.A.'s small businesses and enjoy a hassle-free Christmas gathering with loved ones at these amazing restaurants offering both á la carte and multi-course prix-fixe Christmas Eve and Christmas Day meals—no dishwashing by you required. Make sure to book ahead and then just relax! Christmas dinner’s ready.
Editor's note: I've updated our guide with five new additional picks: the Cat and Fiddle in Hollywood, Culina in Beverly Hills, the Little Door in Beverly Grove, H&H Brazilian Steakhouse in Downtown and Beverly Grove and Bourbon Steak in Glendale.
RECOMMENDED: Check out our entire guide to Christmas in Los Angeles
Menu: Santa Monica's Casa del Mar lobby restaurant will offer a Christmas Day dinner and brunch. Enjoy Dungeness crab cake Bendict, cioppino, and other highlights, plus a dessert buffet that includes chocolate Buche de Noel, peppermint brownies and eggnog creme brulee. For brunch, there's also more breakfast-y items like chocolate chip pancakes.
Hours: Brunch: 11am–3:15pm; Dinner: 5–9:30pm
Price: $125 per person
Reservations: Book online via Resy.
Menu: Enjoy a holiday buffet on Christmas Day at this bohemian hotel restaurant in North Hollywood. Highlights include a taco station, chilled seafood displays and smoked chili prime rib.
Hours: Noon–7:30pm seatings
Price: $85 per adult, $35 per child 12 and under
Reservations: Book via OpenTable.
Menu: The West Hollywood EDITION's vegetable-forward lobby restaurant will be open on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, serving a prix-fixe menu. The menu kicks off with the restaurant’s famous tomato milk bread, plus a savory selection of appetizers that includes butternut squash bisque, crispy brussels Caesar, and bass crudo. Choose between duck breast with potatoes, striped bass with clams, filet mignong with truffles or a roasted chestnut ravioli for a main. Dessert will consist of a vacherin mont-blanc with candied chestnuts and coconut dacquoise.
Hours: December 24: 5–9pm seatings; December 25: 3–8pm seatings
Price: $130 per person.
Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.
Menu: If you’ve ever wanted a real buffet-style Christmas mmeal, the Four Seasons Beverly Hills' lobby restaurant is here to fulfill your most gluttonous dreams. From morning to 3pm, Culina’s team will be making classic breakfast and brunch dishes to order, with additional stations of seafood, sushi, seasonal and classic sides. On Christmas Eve, the hotel is also offering an á la carte menu with seasonal specials, incuding uni-topped squid ink spaghetti and persimmon with burrata.
Hours: 5–9:30pm seatings Christmas Eve, 11am–6pm seatings Christmas Day
Price: Christmas Eve: á la carte; Christmas Day: $250 per adult, $125 for kids 12 and under
Reservations: Book via OpenTable.
Menu: It's a very 90210 Christmas at the Beverly Wilshire, where the dining room overlooks a fully decked out Rodeo Drive. THEBlvd is offering prix-fixe menus on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. On Christmas Eve, highlights include a smoked chicken broth, maple spiced glazed duck breast and a yule log, while Christmas Day features dishes like beef wellington, citrus-cured hamachi and mont-blanc. Caviar, oysters, prawns and truffles will also be available as add-ons. Live music will also be available as well (6 to 9pm on Christmas Eve, noon to 3pm on Christmas Day).
Hours: 5–9:30pm seatings Christmas Eve, 11:30am–9:30pm seatings Christmas Day.
Price: $160 per adult, $65 per child 12 and under.
Reservations: Book via Tock.
Menu: Situated high atop the US Bank Tower, Downtown's 71Above offers a stunning city views and modern American fare. The restaurant will be open on Christmas Eve and Day and offering its usual $98 three-course dinner in the dining room—just note that window seats aren't guaranteed, and you must put down a credit card to book a reservation.
Hours: 5–8:30pm seatings
Price: $95 per person
Reservations: Book via OpenTable.
Menu: Walter and Margarita Manzke's critically acclaimed Californian French eatery is offering a special prix fixe menu on Christmas Eve. Though the exact menu is yet to be determined, expect lots of seasonal produce, high-quality meat and seafood and maybe, if you're lucky, some winter truffles. (Note that vegans can't be accommodated at République at the moment.)
Hours: 5:30–10pm seatings
Price: $160 per person.
Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.
Menu: The holidays are the perfect time to indulge, so why not spend Christmas Eve in one of L.A.'s most lauded fine-dining institutions? Wolfgang Puck’s flagship Beverly Hills restaurant is celebrating with a foure-course prix-fixe meal from executive chef Tetsu Yahagi and the menu won’t be the only music to your ears: Spago also plans to host a festive live show from the Santa Sisters Singers.
Hours: 4–9:30pm seatings
Price: $245 per adult
Reservations: Book via Sevenrooms.
Menu: Curtis Stone’s Hollywood steakhouse is offering a four-course Christmas Eve feast, starting with sunchokp soup and roasted parsnip panzanella. For mains, there will be Maine lobster with curry butter and 20-day dry-aged Creekstone Farm rib eye. Each table will also receive family-style sides of smashed fried potatoes with paprika aioli, brasied cippolini onions and creamed cabbage as well as a buche de Noel for dessert.
Hours: 4:30–8:30pm seatings
Price: $160 per person
Reservations: Book via Resy.
Menu: Suzanne Tracht’s iconic Beverly Grove chophouse will be open on Christmas Eve, serving Jar’s traditional á la carte menu of modern American steakhouse fare along with a few to-be-announced holiday specials. The restaurant’s signature pot roast with roast carrots and caramelized onions, as well as its prime rib eye and red wine-based coq au vin, feel particularly Christmassy in our eyes.
Hours: 5–9pm.
Price: Á la carte.
Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.
Menu: Both the Beverly Grove and Brentwood iterations of Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne’s pioneering market-driven small plates restaurant will be open on Christmas Eve. While you’ll find consistent, globally inspired seasonal fare at both locations, we’re partial to the original Beverly Grove location, where the restaurant’s gorgeous heated patio and cozy fireplace make the perfect backdrop for a festive holiday dinner.
Hours: 5–10pm
Price: Á la carte.
Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.
Menu: Neal Fraser's Downtown restaurant housed in an old Catholic cathedral will be offering a three-course prix-fixe dinner on Christmas Eve with a supplemental $110 wine pairing. Menu highlights include rabbit pot pie; prime rib roast; and eggnog custard pie.
Hours: 4–9pm seatings
Price: $215 per adult, $55 per child (inclusive of tax and gratuity)
Reservations: Book via OpenTable.
Menu: This beloved British pub in Hollywood will offer a reasonably priced three-course Christmas Eve dinner (reservations required). Choose from a mixed green salad or a vegan-friendly sweet potato and carrot soup to start, then move onto turkey ($48), a vegan nut roast ($45) or beef Wellington ($52) as a main. For dessert, there’s toffee pudding, chocolate mousse or a vegan option. All dine-in guests will also receive a traditional British Christmas crackers for additional holiday cheer.
Hours: 4–8:30pm seatings
Price: $45–52 per person
Reservations: Book online via Resy.
Menu: This longtime restaurant hidden along West 3rd Street is serving an elegant, Mediterranean-inspired prix-fixe menu for Christmas Eve. Seatings run from 4 to 9:45pm.
Price: $110 per person
Reservations: Book via Tock.
Menu: A dine-in meal at celebrity chef Michael Mina’s Glendale steakhouse is always a sure bet at the holidays. This Christmas Eve, you’ll find an elegant three-course dinner. Want to make it even classier? There are a number of high-ticket add-ons available, including caviar and a chilled seafood sampler.
Hours: 4–8:30pm seatings
Price: $135 per person
Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.
Menu: What happens when a Michelin-recognized chef opens a boutique-hotel restaurant? You get Josiah Cirtrin helming this airy greenhouse restaurant in the heart of Koreatown with innovative plates prepped with a keen attention to detail. For Christmas Eve, Openaire will be open—exact menu details still forthcoming.
Hours: 5:30–9:45pm seatings
Price: TBA.
Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.
Menu: Both the Downtown and Santa Monica Water Grill locations in L.A. will be open on Christmas Eve and serving the chain’s regular menu.
Hours: 11am–8pm
Price: A la carte.
Reservations: Book via OpenTable for Santa Monica and Downtown.
Menu: For New York-style Chinese banquet food on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in L.A., you always know there's Fairfax’s Genghis Cohen. Take your pick from old favorites like the pork potstickers, No Name duck and Crackerjack shrimp (the recipe of which was deemed good enough to be re-published by the L.A. Times).
Hours: 11am–8pm
Price: A la carte.
Reservations: Book online via Resy.
Menu: This upmarket Korean barbecue chain with locations in Beverly Hills, Mid-Wilshire and Downtown L.A. will be open on Christmas Day for anyone hungry for a dizzying array of banchan and high-quality meats cooked fresh on the grill.
Hours: 11am–8pm
Price: A la carte.
Reservations: Book online via OpenTable for Downtown, Beverly Hills and Mid-Wilshire.
Menu: This Brazilian churrascaria with locations in Downtown L.A. and the Beverly Center will offer an all-you-can-eat Christmas Day spread with over a dozen types of meat. The mini-chain's normal dinner sides will also be available.
Hours: Noon–10pm
Price: $70 per adult and $37 for kids ages 7–12, kids 6 and under free
Reservations: Book via their website.
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