Haute Insider: NYC Holiday Happenings

New York is one of the best places on the globe to spend the holidays. Weather it’s shopping you love or visiting the Rockefeller plaza tree with a little post-tree ice skating, New York has got it all. We’ve compiled a list of some of your favorite places that have little known holiday special activities and other holiday goodies. Enjoy!

The Palm Court at the iconic Plaza Hotel is a great place to stop for a bit of grand old New York and a spot of  tea—that’s English style with petite sandwiches piled high on the graduated platter. For the holidays they have some special additions to their afternoon tea. There are two different ones below:

Sugar & Spice Tea: November 27th – December 31st. Here’s some of the offerings to chose from:

• Organic Deviled Egg Salad, Dill Pickle Relish
  House Roasted Turkey, Cranberry, Romaine, Whole Wheat English Cucumber, Pickled Red Onion Cream Cheese, Rye Prosciutto Cotto, Gruyere, Dijon, Ficelle Baguette
  Organic Peanut Butter and Jelly.Fresh Baked Ginger Scones with Preserves, Lemon Curd, Devonshire CreamSweets:
  Spiced “Eggnog” and Chocolate Cup
  Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
  Apple Cider Cupcake with Mulling Spiced Buttercream Caramel Chocolate Meringue
  Seasonal Fruit Tart
  Peppermint Cotton Candy3D Gingerbread Cookie, winter scene packed in cello bag with ribbon (Cookie sourced from Monte Carlo Baking Co., packaging to be done by kitchen)New Yorker Holiday Tea:- Cranberry and orange red velvet dome with cream cheese frosting replaces white chocolate pistachio and cherry dome
  – Key Lime tart/pie replaces lemon meringue tart
  – Chocolate and orange ganache sable replaces chocolate mint ganache sable

Special Christmas Tea: December 24th – 27th

Sandwiches And Savories offered:

Thyme Roasted Prime Rib Sandwich, Horseradish Aioli, Arugula, Onion Roll Roasted Goose Rillette, Prune and Chestnut Chutney, Buckwheat Crepe
Country Style Pate, Giardiniera, Pickled Mustard Seeds, Toasted Brioche Christmas Ham, Hot Buttered Rum Glaze, Smoked Gouda, Grain Mustard Butter, Ficelle Baguette

Lobster Roll, Daikon Sprouts, Buttered Brioche Roll
Confit New Potato, Chive Crème Fraiche, American Sturgeon Caviar 3g Private Reserve American Ossetra Caviar-$25 Supplement
3g Royale Sturgeon Caviar-$19 Supplement

Scones
Freshly, Baked, Warm Seasonal Scones, Double Devonshire Cream, Lemon Curd, Preserves

Pastries And Sweets
Chocolate & Bailey’s ganache buche Mont blanc
Mint and mandarin macaroon

There will be a Christmas giveaway of a fruitcake— a yummy one!

Holiday Carolers Brunch at The Lambs Club : Celebrity chef, Geoffrey Zakarian will have Holiday Carolers each Saturday in December leading up to and including Christmas day. You’ll love the red leather banquettes and the chic retro feel of the restaurant which is housed in the Chatwal Hotel on 44th Street. Some of the luscious edibles offered for the brunch are: