Dickensian Dinner at Django
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Join Django for a festive, family-style dinner event! This unique meal, prepared by Django Chef Partners Derek Eidson and George Formaro and the Django team, is inspired by Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” Every menu item is pulled from the story’s pages or common to the book’s mid-19th century publishing for a classic Victorian holiday experience.
Meal includes all items in the menu below, as well as the reception wassail (with Dickens’s actual recipe). Beer, wine and themed cocktails available for purchase. Doors and seating open at 5pm; dinner begins at 5:30pm.
APPETIZERS
Oysters on the half shell
Brawn
Trout rilletes
English Cheddar and Stilton cheeses
Roasted chestnuts
Accoutrements
ENTRÉES
Steak and Stilton pie
Pork and goose sausages
Roasted pork
Chestnut-stuffed turkey
SIDES
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Roasted apple sauce
Sage and onion stuffing
Roasted root vegetables
DESSERTS
Christmas pudding
Twelfth cake
Mince pie
SPECIALTY BEVERAGES (available for purchase)
Smoking Bishop
Negus
English ale
Red and white wine
Des Moines, IA 50309