Reservations still available for holiday buffet

Reservations are still being accepted for Thursday's annual holiday buffet and jazz night at the Club.

Dinner will be served starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Reliable Source, with the Greater U Street Jazz Collective performing beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Truman Lounge. The buffet is $24 for Club members and $28 for non-members.

The event is open to National Press Club members and their guests.
Reservations are encouraged for this event by contacting at 202-662-7443 or e-mail at [email protected].

Here is the menu:

Special Drinks: $7
Washington Apple
Chocolate Martini
Blue Moon

Soup:
Roasted Chestnut Soup

Salads:
Spinach with sugared cranberries, roast pumpkin, goat cheese and ginger dressing
Green salad with spiced apples, blue cheese, cinnamon pecans and apple cider vinaigrette
Caesar salad with Parmesan croutons; anchovies on the side
Jellied cranberries, oranges and walnuts

Dinner:
Roast goose, carved to order
Seven fish Christmas Eve stew with fennel, tomatoes and onions
Baked ham with roasted pineapple and orange ginger glaze
Roasted butternut squash lasagna with cranberries and hazelnuts, topped with Béchamel
Herb bread stuffing with apples and cranberries
Chive mashed potatoes with red wine demi-glace
Green beans almandine with pearl onions

Dessert:
Red velvet cake with Christmas butter icing
Croquembouche (Profiterole Christmas tree with Grand Marnier pastry cream)
Buche de Noel
Ho Ho Ho cookies