The all-seafood Italian Christmas Eve dinner has acquired a more general audience. In this year of the pandemic, there are options for home delivery. Amali on the Upper East Side is offering the seven courses, including octopus, lobster bisque, spaghetti with clams and butter-poached lobster, $145 per person for pickup or delivery (10-mile radius of the restaurant). There are six courses but seven different fish in Hearth’s feast to go from the East Village, available for pickup. Destination Home is a new dinner service specializing in delivered special-occasion meals, with instructions for heating and plating. The feast from Olivier Cheng and Jennifer Zabinski includes a cocktail, bacala fritters, seafood salad, cioppino, lobster risotto and mustard-crusted branzino. The meal is delivered with place cards, cocktail napkins and other extras, including music, within about 100 miles of New York.
Amali dinner, $145 per person, plus $40 delivery fee in Manhattan and $60 outside of Manhattan, amalinyc.com, 212-339-8363; Hearth dinner, $75 per person, 646-602-1300, restauranthearth.com; Destination Home dinner, $300 per person for four, $283.50 per person for six or more, five percent of the price will be donated to the Food Bank for New York City, thedestinationhome.com, 212-362-4755.
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