"Northside Café at the Sahara has a three-course dinner on Christmas Eve with a choice of French onion soup with Gruyére, crostini, and chives or a Christmas spiced poached pear salad with baby lettuces, candied walnuts, and Champagne vinaigrette. Then, for the main entrée, select either a slow-roasted prime rib of beef with haricots verts, watercress, crisp onions, creamy horseradish, and au jus, or grilled salmon filet with parsnips, broccolini, almonds, shallots, brown butter, capers, and currants. For dessert, choose from an apple tart with caramel sauce or molten chocolate cake with raspberry and whipped cream. The Christmas dinner is $35 per person. Northside Café will be open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve." - Susan Stapleton