Christmas lights are lining the streets and tinsel is making its way to mantels city-wide. With holiday cheer on the horizon, It's time to start planning your festive get togethers. Whether you've choosing to dine at your favourite restaurant or cozy up on the couch at home – we've got you covered food wise. The culinary teams at these Vancouver restaurants have put together innovative and delicious menus available for dine-in and takeout. All you have to worry about is being merry. 

Do you have a holiday meal that's not included on this list? We€™d love to hear about it! Email us at mail@vanmag.com

Forage

Dine-In and Takeout

Forage is offering a couple of different options for your individualized Christmas dinner needs. The Forage Holiday Dinner is available both for dine-in and take-out. Their meal set includes a JD Farms specialty turkey with chanterelle mushroom and turkey chorizo stuffing, gluten-free gravy, Spicebox whiskey cranberry sauce and garlic butter butter pomme puree, a smoked boneless pork rack, maple & apple slaw, fall vegetables and honey garlic brussels sprouts, baby kale and arugula salad and sticky toffee pudding for dessert. Looking for something meat free? Forage boasts a vegan nut roast with a miso gravy as a vegan substitute. 

If you've looking for a meal that will feed a crowd, Forage still has you covered. Their Take-Out Whole Turkey and Trimmings, is just what it sounds like: a whole roasted 8kg turkey with the chanterelle and chorizo stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce and pomme puree. 

Cost: Dine in costs $95 per person. Takeout is $61 cold, $65 hot per person. The whole turkey and trimmings costs $395 and feeds 12-15. 
How to order: Order now via Tock and pick up December 22nd-26th.
More info: https://foragevancouver.com/holiday/

Le Tigre

Takeout

Le Tigre is offering a flavour-packed multi-course feast that departs from the traditional turkey dinner. You can choose from a small or large set. For the small set you get the choice of one salad, two appetizers, one main and one dessert. For the large set, you get everything. This means you'll receive their famous pork belly ssam and Korean fried chicken. Plus, japchae spring rolls, soy braised potato, chicken wings, calamari, tofu salad and crispy kickass rice salad and dessert: injeolmi tiramisu and kabocha squash pie. All you have to do is heat and serve.

Cost: Small set serves 2 for $100; large set serves 5 for $250.
How to order: Place your order online for takeout December 21st-25th. Pickup is available at the truck's brick-and-mortar sister restaurant, Torafuku.
More info: Hot tip – If you’re already going that way; Torafuku’s Moontail cocktail program offers some killer drinks to-go. I’m partial to the Aloha. Place your order here. 

Blue Hat Bakery-Café

Takeout

The Blue Hat Bakery-Café at Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts is making Christmas easy, and exceptionally delicious this year. Their Holiday Dinner To-Go gives you the choice between oven roasted turkey breast with classic gravy or star anise and red wine-braised short rib with a side of orange cranberry sauce. All combos come with a warm kale & radicchio salad, garlic-infused whipped potatoes, lemon-thyme glazed winter vegetables and holiday stuffing. For dessert? A decadent chocolate layer cake with Or Noir ganache and sticky toffee pudding with butterscotch caramel and crème Chantilly. 

Cost: $109 for two people. 
How to order: Holiday Dinner To-Go orders can be placed via their website and will be accepted until December 17th at 5:30PM. Pick-up will be between December 23rd 9AM-4PM and December 24th 9AM-2PM.
More info: If you leave out the stuffing and sticky toffee pudding, the whole meal is gluten-free, so you can feel safe sharing your holiday dinner with everyone in your life.

Boulevard

Dine-In and Takeout

The award-winning team at Boulevard always keep us intrigued with indulgent creations and perfected holiday classics. Their Christmas Dinner To-Go begins with their famous corn bread served alongside spiced butternut squash soup. For the main course: brined, sage roasted turkey breast and slow roasted turkey legs, madeira scented giblet gravy, traditional cranberry sauce, brioche, apples, chestnut and thyme stuffing, whipped Yukon gold potatoes, roasted brussels sprouts and honey glazed carrots. Make sure you save room for dessert because your meal is completed with Bûche de Noël, served in two flavours: rum chocolate and apple caramel (gluten-free). Yes, you get both. 

Looking to leave the house on Christmas Day? Boulevard's dine-in option is a decadent four-course meal. You'll be able to choose from items like their classic BLVD chowder or celery and chestnut velouté to start. There are four items to choose from for the second course including black truffle foie gras terrine and seared Hokkaido scallops. Brant Lake wagyu shin bourguignon, slow roasted turkey with all the fixings and more are offered for the main. Dessert is a choice between three, but my vote is the caramel Bûche de Noël.

Cost: Boulevard's Christmas Dinner To-Go is available in two sizes – full pack (feeds 8-10) for $395 cold, $445 hot€¯. Half pack (feeds 4-5) for $245 cold, $295 hot.€¯ Dine in is $105 per person.
How to order: Make reservations at 604-642-2900. Holiday orders are available for pick up the 23rd, 24th and 25th. Place your order online via Tock
More Info: The full dine-in menu is available here.

Provence Marinaside

Takeout

Provence Marinaside is back with their ever-popular and delicious Turkey-To-Go. Let them handle your holiday meal with a French twist. The full meal includes carved turkey meat, roasted vegetables, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, a French baguette and French clafoutis for dessert. Oui, we love the sound of that!

Cost: $44 per person.
How to order: All orders must be placed in advance via their website between December 1st and 20th and must be picked up between 10AM-4PM on December 24th.

Notch8

Takeout

It's time to eat, drink and be merry. This year let the team at Notch8 cater the food portion of your eve so you can get right to the merriment. Their dine-in option is sold out so get ready for a comfy feast at home. Their meal contains a full free-range Fraser Valley turkey, preserved fruit bread stuffing, honey thyme roasted root vegetables, Yukon gold mashed potatoes, cranberry relish, pan gravy, artisan rolls and creamery butter and a cranberry candied orange cheesecake tart. Hot tip for larger (or hungrier!) crowds – you can also add on a 2.5kg prime rib roast with Yorkshire puddings, jus and horseradish for an additional fee.

Cost: $499 for 8-10 guests. Prime rib add-on costs $350
How to order: Order your meal before December 20th  via their website and pick up December 24th & 25th between 10AM-4PM.

Truffles Catering

Takeout

You can skip the cooking when you order one of Truffles Fine Foods’ Heat at Home Packages this holiday season. Their Holiday Carved Turkey Meal comes with traditional roasted carved turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, sourdough stuffing with sage & onion, creamy roasted garlic mashed potatoes, roasted winter vegetables with fresh herbs, shredded brussels sprout slaw and chocolate bourbon cake.

If you've plant-based, their Vegan Housemade Holiday Roast Meal will be right up your alley. It contains their housemade holiday roast, fresh sage and cranberry Dijon glaze, miso gravy, olive oil mashed Yukon gold potatoes, roasted winter vegetables with fresh herbs, shredded brussels sprouts slaw and vegan chocolate brownies with candy cane crunch.

They also offer a Charcuterie Box and a Vegan Holiday Mezze Box perfect for that early December soiree. 

Cost: Holiday carved turkey and vegan holiday roast cost $160 and serve 4. The charcuterie and vegan mezze boxes are both $50. 
How to order: Available for pick up or delivery on December 24th only, but you can place an order through their website now.

Edge Catering

Takeout

Edge Catering offers an array of take-home options this holiday season. Their Holiday Turkey Dinner contains slow roasted, sliced herb butter local turkey (both white and dark meat), port gravy, sourdough, apple & cranberry stuffing, Yukon gold buttermilk mashed potatoes, maple squash, winter vegetables with thyme butter, cranberry and orange chutney and your choice of dessert: cranberry apple walnut galettes or their signature sticky toffee puddings.

Turkey-ed out already? Edge Catering has your back with their Braised Beef Short Rib Dinner. Port jus accompanies the short rib, along with Yorkshire puddings. You still get the sides and dessert available in the Turkey dinner (minus the stuffing). 

Cost: The turkey dinner is $100 for 2 people; $290 for 6. €¯Short rib costs $130 for 2, $380 for 6. 
How to order: Order via their website by December 20th at 3PM and pickup on December 24th from 9AM-4PM.
More info: Edge also offers Charcuterie and Cheese Presentations ($60) and Cookie Decorating Kits ($30) so you can start your festivities ASAP.

Railtown Catering

Takeout

Take the holidays home this year with festive favourites that won€™t disappoint. Railtown Catering is back with their 9th year of their popular Turkey To-Go Package. They offer a half-size package  and a full-size that feeds 8-10. Both contain the turkey of course, traditional giblet gravy, mashed Yukon gold potatoes, wildflower honey & ginger infused cranberry sauce, buttered carrots, organic mesculin salad, maple-glazed sweet potatoes, brussels sprouts with toasted almonds, dried apricot chestnut stuffing and classic Railtown dinner rolls & focaccia – plus pecan pie for dessert. 

Cost: Half size serves 5-6 for $279 and a full-size that feeds 8-10 for $379.
How to order: Order online or by phone at 604-568-811 by December 17th and pickup between 10AM-5PM from December 23-26th.

Peake Catering

Takeout

Peake Catering is offering their Peake Feast To-Go again this year, so that you rest easy knowing you don€™t have to cook – instead you get to indulge. Start off with bench bakehouse sourdough and herb butter then move onto the main course. You get to choose between a Sunrise Farms turkey brined in cinnamon and sage (breast & thigh) with Jack Daniel's gravy or a yam & shiitake €œmeatloaf€ with fig gravy. Both meals come with focaccia stuffing, orange and cranberry compote

Get ready to chow down on shaved brussels sprouts & baby kale, lavender roasted parsnips & carrots, maple roasted spaghetti squash (with bacon! And fontina!) and Yukon potato mash. For dessert, a take & bake apple crumble comes oven-ready; they even include Earnest's famous oatmeal and brown sugar ice cream to scoop on top when It's hot. A very merry Christmas indeed.

Cost: $295 and feeds 4-6.
How to order: Place your order by emailing info@peakeofcatering.com by December 17th at 3PM. Pick up December 23rd between 8AM-4Pm or December 24th 8AM-12PM.
More info: peakeofcatering.com/

Potluck Hawker Eatery

Dine-In

Potluck Hawker Eatery is spicing up the holiday season with their Holiday Crab Feasts. Three different feasts will be available over three weekends. All meals feature a whole Dungeness crab with either rice or noodles and four sides including roti canai with curry dipping sauce, fish sauce caramel chicken wings, green papaya and beet salad, egg fried rice with uni paste and tobiko. Dessert is an Ovaltine-Milo icebox cake by The Dessert Club.

December 3rd & 4th: Chili Crab Feast (spicy tomato shellfish sauce with chewy rice cakes)

December 10th & 11th: Salted Egg Yolk Crab Feast (deep fried with crispy puffed rice, stir fried with egg yolk butter curry leaf)

December 17th & 18th: Black Pepper Crab Feast (deep fried and braised with egg noodles in black pepper gravy)

Cost: $165, feeds four.
How to order: Pre-order via Tock.
More info: In addition, on December 12th & 13th  in a collab with The Dessert Club, they are hosting a special ticketed event ($55 per person) as part of the Will Travel for Food Series. There will be housemade bar snacks, choice of beverage (beer or non-alcoholic), choice between khao soi or sisig sizzling rice and the choice between three desserts: Thai tea ice cream cake, halo halo or turon with chocolate pot de crème. Tickets available via Tock.

Savoury City

Takeout

Savoury City's Turkey-To-Go spread screams sophistication. Their meal includes an herb & lemon brined turkey (white and dark meat), classic herb stuffing, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, green bean almondine, roasted local carrots, filled gougeres, traditional turkey gravy and housemade cranberry chutney. Dessert is a selection of assorted holiday confections, sweets, shortbreads, tarts and truffles.

Don€™t sleep on their holiday tourtiere pies either. You can get this French Canadian classic fresh or frozen to enjoy at your leisure.

Cost: $275, feeds 6. Tourtieres are $45, feeds 6. 
How to order: Order via their website. Turkey To-Go orders must be placed by December 20th and picked up between December 23rd-24th 9AM-3PM. Tourtieres are available for pick-up between December 20th-24th from 9AM-3PM.

Longtail Kitchen

Dine-in and Takeout

Longtail Kitchen's holiday exclusive is a slow-roasted Farmcrest chicken marinated in coconut cream, fish sauce and palm sugar. You can take home (or pre-order for dine-in) a whole chicken with nam jim jaew dipping sauce or make it meal set of a half chicken with rice, house pickle carrots and daikon, fresh cucumber and lettuce.

Cost: Whole chicken with dipping sauce is $32. Half chicken meal is $18.
How to order: Available December 18th-24th. Pre-order by calling 604-553-3855; 24 hours advance notice is strongly encouraged.
More info: longtailkitchen.com

The Lazy Gourmet

Takeout

The Lazy Gourmet's Holiday Menu is fit for two or small groups. Their meal includes a kale & romaine Caesar salad, housemade pumpkin knot buns, sliced roasted turkey breast and confit turkey leg, classic herb stuffing with roasted garlic, dry Riesling gravy, cranberry sauce with pear, butter mashed red potatoes, sauteed broccolini with garlic, and pecan pie. If you've vegetarian, they offer a special vegetarian cassoulet – you'll still receive all the fixings and dessert.

Cost: $43 per person
How to order: Pre-order online via their website and pickup or schedule delivery between December 22nd-24th.

Tractor Foods

Takeout

Tractor Foods presents Tractor At Home For The Holidays: A gourmet, customizable, heat-and-eat holiday dinner. Their traditional holiday bundle showcases local Rossdown Farms garlic lemon butter turkey breast, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, maple glazed brussels sprouts, roasted butternut & apple stuffing, sweet potato biscuits, citrus ginger cranberry sauce and turkey gravy. The vegetarian bundle includes a lentil walnut loaf, maple glazed brussels sprouts, beet pecan salad, rosemary lemon sheet pan vegetables and pomegranate-glazed carrots. Both include a classic apple crisp for dessert.

Still hungry? You can easily add additional sides and tasty treats to make sure the whole table leaves well fed. 

Cost: Traditional is $139 and vegetarian is $109. Both serve four.
How to order: Pre-order now via their website and schedule delivery for 12-4PM December 23rd-24th. Orders must be placed by December 10th at 4PM. 
More info: Delivery is offered in Metro Vancouver, the North Shore, Richmond, New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri Cities, Surrey, White Rock, Delta and Langley. 

Freebird at Home by Maenam

Takeout

Freebird at Home By Maenam is spicing up the season with their Festive Feast. This meal includes a whole Asian-style salt-cured roast chicken, crispy sticky rice made with chicken drippings and other seasonal fixins, fried brussels sprouts salad and hazelnut Mor Kaeng custard for dessert.

Cost: $70, feeds 2-3.
How to order: Preorder by calling 604-730-5675 with a minimum of 24 hours notice.
More info: The feast is available December 7th-31st, but they are closed for the holidays December 24th-27th and January 1st. 

Juke Fried Chicken

Takeout

Juke Fried Chicken is back with their famous (and crowd-favourite) Turducken Meal Kit. The turducken feast is gluten-free and includes the turducken (that's a roasted turkey, duck and chicken), leek & sausage stuffing, scalloped potatoes, brussels sprouts with bacon jam, roasted squash and carrots, jalapeno cornbread with honey thyme whipped schmaltz (!!), cranberry sauce and turkey gravy.

Cost: $199, feeds 4
How to order: Order online via their website. Available for pickup from 22nd €“ 23rd December.
More info: Customers are encouraged to order early as there is a limited number of kits and they may sell out. Also, the Chickadee room, Juke's contact-free cocktail bar is offering newly-released cocktail kits so that your holiday gathering can also include an expertly curated cocktail or two. Order via their website for pickup Thursday, Friday or Saturday. 

The Westin Bayshore Hotel

Dine-In and Takeout

H Tasting Lounge at the Westin Bayshore is going all out with their Christmas Dinner menu. It is a four-course meal that begins with a sourdough boule with an olive oil candle and their winter beets appetizer that features candy cane and gingerbread crumble. Entrees are a choice of turkey two ways with confit leg croquette, Dungeness crab crusted kuterra salmon with fingerling potatoes or the (vegetarian friendly) wild mushroom and truffle risotto with carnaroli rice. Dessert is a chocolate yule log with black cherry and orange sauce.

H Tasting Lounge is also offering a Festive Turkey Takeout. This meal includes a 5kg slow-roasted Rossdown Farms free-range turkey, Bayshore honey-glazed root vegetables, roasted garlic and parmesan brussels sprouts, buttermilk and chive mashed potatoes, cranberry and peach stuffing, sage pan gravy, spiced cranberry relish, winter greens salad and a chocolate yule log for dessert.

Cost: Dine-in is $80 per person; December 24th and 25th from 5PM.  Takeout is $400, feeds 6-8.
How to order: Reserve your dine-in spot and pre-order your turkey takeout now via Tock. Pre-order for the turkey takeout is available until 20th December and pickup is 24th-25th December 2-6PM.
More info: The Westin Bayshore also offers other festive experiences throughout the holiday season. They offer a Christmas Day brunch, an afternoon tea available throughout the beginning of December and H Tasting Lounge’s new 12 cocktails of Christmas movies menu.

El Santo

Takeout

El Santo is back with their Holiday Takeaway Dinners this year. There are two options that pull inspiration from traditional Mexican cuisine and holiday classics alike. Option 1 is a whole roasted chicken, brined with cinnamon, anise, avocado leaf and biquino chiles. Option 2 is vegetarian and is a chile relleno with layers of herb-infused rice, roasted poblano peppers, panela cheese, a cilantro pesto and salsa ranchera.

Both meals are served with a kale salad topped with Manchego cheese and charred lemon vinaigrette, cornbread with jalapeno jelly, brussels sprouts with a Mayan-inspired chile and pumpkin seed dip and charred jalapeno vinaigrette and roasted winter vegetables. A whole pint of Rocky Point Ice Cream's caramel gelato is for dessert.

Cost: Option 1 is $85 for 2 or $160 for 4. Option 2 is $75 for 2 or $145 for 4.
How to order: Call 604-553-1849 or email orders@elsanto.ca to order now. Orders can be placed until end of day December 17th. Pickup is December 24th 11AM-2PM.

Dockside Restaurant

Dine-in

This year, Dockside Restaurant has you covered for both Christmas Day brunch and dinner at their beautiful location on Granville Island.

Brunch is a Bottomless Brunch service. You'll be able to choose from dozens of made from scratch items and brunch classics such as, danishes, pancakes, classic eggs benny, and avocado toast. As wwell as more seasonal fare like turkey with stuffing and gravy, prime rib with Yorkshire pudding, mac and cheese and wonton crusted prawns. There will even be sweet reats to finish your meal.

Dinner is a Four Course Table d€™Hôte menu with elevated expressions of holiday classics. You begin with a celeriac velouté then your choice of either seared Hokkaido scallops, house-made gnocchi, or smoked and pickled beets. Your entrée is a choice of roasted & confit duo of turkey (with garlic whipped potatoes, brussels sprouts and jus), prime rib & Yorkshire pudding (with garlic whipped potatoes, carrots and red wine demi), forno-roasted sablefish (with carrots, dill, kale and turnips), Yarrow Meadows duck breast (with sunchokes, poached pear and endive) or winter harvest risotto (with yams, kuri squash, swiss chard, sage and pine nuts). Dessert is a choice between sticky toffee pudding, egg nog brulee, or a yule log.

Cost: Brunch is $89.95 per adult, kids 5-10 are $39.95. Dinner is $149.95 per person.
How to order: Reserve your spots now by calling 604-685-7070

Cocktails & Canapés

Takeout

Cocktails & Canapés is offering Holiday Brunch Boxes to keep your Christmas bright and merry. Inside the box you will receive liege waffles with whipped dulce de leche, house organic croissants with Qualicum Bay brie, roasted ham and fig jam, house baked cranberry cinnamon and molasses loaf, fresh local fruit, a bottle of Hatch B Secco €™19 and freshly squeezed orange juice (what's brunch without mimosas?).

Cost: $120, feeds 4.
How to order: Call 604-424-8788 or visit their website to pre-order now. Boxes available for pre-order until December 17th. Pickup and delivery is December 23rd between 11AM-3PM.
More Info: Delivery is an extra $30. Add on smoked salmon & blinis with pickled shallot, capers, dill and whipped cream cheese for $26 and extra bubbles for $34.

 

Fanny Bay Oysters

Dine-in and Takeout

Fanny Bay Oysters & Shellfish Market is here to help you crack into the spirit of the festive season with their Sunday Surf-And-Turf Dinners, available every Sunday until 2022. The prix-fixe features an appetizer of six oysters, either a ½ Dungeness crab or Canadian lobster (depending on the day's catch), four prawns, four scallops and a 10-oz New York AAA striploin with mushrooms, green beans, roasted potatoes and vegetables. For dessert a creme brulee or chocolate tart. 

Their surf and turf dinners are dine in only, but if you have your heart set on seafood takeout you’re in luck: their retail market is now taking pre-orders for Christmas Eve. Their menu includes a prawn cocktail platter, a seafood boil feast kit (with Dungeness crab, Manila clams, mussels, chorizo, potatoes and mroe), caviar, oysters and other seafood delicacies. You can even add wine or bubbles to your order.

Cost: The surf and turf dinner is $99, feeds 2.
How to order: Make a reservation via their website or call 778-379-9510. You can place marketplace orders on their website as well. Marketplace orders for Christmas Eve can be picked up between 10AM-5PM on the 24th. 

Sequoia Company of Restaurants

Dine-in

The Sequoia Company of Restaurants has you covered for both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dining.

The Teahouse is offering a Christmas Eve dinner with a choice of appetizers, including seafood saffron chowder, stuffed Teahouse mushrooms or harvest salad, entrees like slow-roasted prime rib, roasted turkey with all the trimmings, seared arctic char and mushroom conchiglie. For dessert It's your choice between torta Milano, dulce de leche apple tart or eggnog panna cotta. Their Christmas Day dinner is just as delicious sounding – an amuse-bouche of smoked salmon mousse and a mid-meal palate cleanser of green apple sorbet with mint oil, then a choice of appetizer (seafood saffron chowder, Teahouse stuffed mushrooms or harvest salad), entrée (slow-roasted prime rib, roasted turkey with all the fixings, seafood trio of seared arctic char, prawns and scallops or mushroom conchiglie) and your choice of dessert (torta Milano, dulce de leche apple tart or eggnog panna cotta).

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