catalina kitchen Christmas Brunch and Dinner

catalina kitchen at Terranea Resort offers a festive Christmas brunch buffet with a Granola Bar serving smoked salmon mini bagels, turkey wraps, and acai bowls. Guests can enjoy pastries, mini donuts, gluten-free and vegan muffins, and butter croissants, plus an omelet station, pancakes, cinnamon French toast, steak and eggs, and a chocolate fountain. Breakfast meats and a grazing table with cured meats and California cheeses are also featured. The Christmas dinner buffet includes lobster Cobb, Niçoise, winter kale and quinoa, and butternut squash velouté. A Seafood Bar features oysters, crab, lobster tails, ahi tuna, halibut Wellington, scallops, calamari, and seafood chowder. Carving stations serve prime rib, tomahawk steak, leg of lamb, turkey, and porchetta. Other entrees include porcini truffle risotto, grilled sea bass, duck with radicchio, and braised short ribs. Stone oven pizzas and desserts such as pies, gingerbread cheesecake, pistachio cream puffs, and fruit tarts complete the menu. The holiday cocktail, Pom Pom Spritz, is $19.

Brunch and Dinner Buffet: $150 for adults, $60 for kids 5-12, $30 for kids 2-4, exclusive of tax and gratuity. Reservations available at opentable.com/catalina-kitchen-at-terranea-resort.