My guided journey via 12 of the town’s Christmas pop-up bars could also be over, however I’ve yet another vacation scorching tip for you. And I saved if not the perfect for final, then actually my favourite for final. That’s proper. The Butcher & Bee annual Hanukkah Dinner is again.
The dinner is held in The Rose Room, the restaurant’s personal occasion area, with three lengthy communal tables so you may get to know different latke followers whilst you feast, family-style, on Scott Littman’s tackle conventional recipes. (No relation, by the way in which; I simply love his meals.)
“I’ve all the time been a fan of eating as a bunch,” says Littman. “It encourages neighborhood and attending to know your neighbor. It’s actually essential to share a desk with strangers, and particularly the communal eating, encourages you to work together with them.”
Littman has been cooking up these dinners since 2016 (besides throughout the pandemic) and works to make every one authentic and slightly bit totally different from the yr earlier than, whereas additionally staying true to the vacation and the treats we now have grown to like, reminiscent of placing the signature Butcher & Bee whipped feta on a latke.
Hanukkah isn’t a very massive deal when it comes to non secular holidays, but it surely falls round Christmas (and this yr on Christmas), so it tends to get much more mainstream play than another Jewish holidays. The foundational story of Hanukkah is {that a} amount of oil that was speculated to be sufficient to maintain a ceremonial temple lamp lit for one evening as an alternative lasted for eight nights. To honor that, virtually the entire vacation’s meals are fried in oil, with potato pancakes referred to as latkes and stuffed jelly doughnuts referred to as sufganiyot.
I referred to as Littman to ask what he had deliberate for my favourite meal of the yr, and I almost fainted when he mentioned the theme was my different favourite meals group: New York deli. Butcher & Bee has began serving pastrami sandwiches at brunch. (Enjoyable reality 1: The workforce received to make pastrami on the legendary Katz deli after they had been in New York. Enjoyable reality 2: Again dwelling, they smoke the meat over at sister restaurant Redheaded Stranger.)
So he’ll be serving pastrami on Hanukkah, and the aforementioned whipped feta and latkes. He’s making a matzoh ball and hen dish that he describes as form of a tackle Southern hen and dumplings. Additionally on the menu is a salad with candy potato, and vegans will respect the braised cabbage dish. Dessert contains his mother’s kugel, which was derived from a Joan Nathan recipe, sufganiyot and the Butcher & Bee tackle basic chocolate gelt.
Apart from the welcome cocktail, drinks are an extra price on prime of the $75 prix-fixe ticket, with choices together with Mulled Manischewitz, a dill martini and a tackle a French 75.
Butcher & Bee is providing two seatings every on each Dec. 27 and Dec. 28 at 5 p.m. or 8:30 p.m., and one 7 p.m. seating on Dec. 29. Seatings are $75 per particular person and embrace the welcome beverage plus all-you-can-eat-family-style meals (plus perhaps a leftover or two to take dwelling). Make your reservation on-line. Butcher & Bee is positioned at 902 Foremost St. in East Nashville.
