Christmas Celebrations at Hilton Abu Dhabi

Hilton Abu Dhabi welcomes all to discover the magic of this time of year with loved ones through its wide range of traditional festive-themed events and activities.

Welcome the Christmas spirit with the iconic hotel’s tree lighting ceremony on December 11th, 2017. Hosted at the lobby, the much-awaited event will be accompanied by a choir from 6.30pm until 7.30pm as well as a full Christmas market.

Giving guests a feel of a European Christmas market, Hilton Abu Dhabi will have a number of stalls set up in the lobby which will offer visitors homemade specials like whole roast turkey with trimmings, glazed chestnuts and the famed Hilton cranberry sauce. The hotel’s pastry chefs have also worked on creating everybody’s favourite festive-shaped chocolate goodies, gingerbread cookies, puddings, cakes, yule logs, truffles and macarons.

Pre-Christmas Festive Turkey Menus
Those who cannot wait for Christmas Day to enjoy perfectly cooked turkey can visit between December 11th and 23rd, 2017 for the special festive turkey menu which will be served daily.

Vasco’s, the beachside restaurant, serves a two-course and three-course option of its turkey menu for AED 90* and AED 115* respectively. Served for lunch and dinner, the dishes include the famed Vasco’s heirloom tomato salad with milk poached buffalo mozzarella for starters, the tempting turkey duo of a roast and a stuffed roulade, and mince pie tart for dessert.

The popular pub, Hemingway’s, will also have a turkey dinner menu available from December 11th until 25th with smoked duck breast for starters, the traditional roast for mains with all the trimmings and Christmas plum pudding for dessert. This special treat is priced at AED 60* for the two-course option and AED 79* for the three-course menu.

Christmas Eve at Hilton Abu Dhabi
Guests can choose from four exciting dinner menus on December 24th, 2017. The all-day dining restaurant, La Terrazza, hosts a festive buffet, while the neighbouring Bocca offers a four-course menu. Vasco’s and Hemingway’s will have a three-course set menu available as well.

Enjoy an authentic Italian dinner at Bocca for Christmas Eve which will feature an interesting appetiser of marinated Sicilian red prawns with burrata cheese, followed by four choices of mains. Options include homemade spaghetti with seared marinated calamari, risotto with pears and gorgonzola cheese, sea bass fillet with beetroot risotto, and grilled veal tenderloin with truffle sauce.
The four-course menu, priced at AED 229*, finishes with a mille-feuille of panettone, mascarpone and winter fruits.

Vasco’s will serve a three-course dinner on Christmas Eve. Priced at AED 225*, the menu includes smoked salmon pinwheel with salmon mousse and yasa caviar for starters, followed by pistachio and berry crusted turkey roulade. Completing the meal is a hazelnut yule log with forest fruit chunks.

La Terrazza will put up international buffet spreads for lunch and dinner on both December 24th and 25th for AED 185*. From the traditional turkey roasts to an array of delectable Christmas desserts, this elaborate spread is perfect for families and friends to share a memorable meal together.

Fine Dining on Christmas Day
December 25th is guaranteed to be a day of culinary adventures for guests at Hilton Abu Dhabi. In addition to the festive buffet at La Terrazza, there will be special set menus at Bocca, Vasco’s and the award-winning Jazz Bar & Dining.

Bocca’s four-course lunch or dinner menu, priced at AED 229*, will start with a salad of burrata cheese and heirloom tomatoes, and the antipasti of choice is the homemade lobster ravioli and gnocchi with lamb ragout. For mains, there is are options of tuna steak with citrus butter sauce and stuffed turkey with cranberry sauce.

The Christmas Day meal at Vasco’s is priced at AED 225*. Featuring a lobster and quinoa salad for starters, the three-course menu will be served for lunch and dinner. Guests can dig into a delicious pistachio and berry crusted turkey roulade and end the meal with a traditional Christmas plum pudding topped with Tonka sauce and vanilla ice-cream.

Jazz Bar & Dining joins the celebrations with a festive dinner menu for AED 130*. The three-course meal includes a marinated turkey with brie cheese salad and slow roasted turkey with pink pepper coated goose liver on thyme red currant jus and sweet potato mash. The smell of Christmas wafts through the venue thanks to the dessert – the mince pie tart is served with cinnamon sauce and vanilla ice-cream.