By Yasmene Warren
Holidays are the one time of the year when nothing is more important than spending quality time with the people you love. The last thing you need on your plate is the stress of cooking for family and friends.
Let our renowned chefs at Rosen Shingle Creek whisk you away into an exquisite winter wonderland of flavors at our selection of Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve celebrations in 2024.
Christmas Brunch Buffet at Café Osceola
Alluring Appetizers
Awaken your inner Christmas spirit with our attractive selection of appetizers. Warm up your winter with divine soups like smoked ham and lentil soup or a sweet potato bisque with vanilla bean and candied pecans. Enjoy small bites and greens from our selection of amuse-bouches, market salads, and market displays.
Guests may also craft and customize their own salads at our make-your-own salad bar.
Small Plates
Equally as enticing as our appetizers are our small plates, which offer hearty ingredients in portions that please the palate in anticipation of our extravagant entrées.
We bring a variety of options to the table with our seafood station, dim sum, Banrai Sushi, street tacos, and make-your-own pasta station complete with Calla Bella’s focaccia bread.
You can also look forward to a beautiful display of international and domestic cheeses, antipasto, and seasonal fresh fruit to warm up your palate.
Satiating Entrées & Carvings
After indulging in our vast selection of brilliant bites, fill up on our generous entrées and carvings. Enjoy hearty helpings of lamb stew with marble potatoes and roasted vegetables, braised chicken with a hearty white bean and mushroom cassoulet, or harissa marinated Mahi Mahi to please your palate this holiday season.
Complement these divine dishes with a side of mashed potatoes, sourdough and sage dressing, creamed greens with crispy onions and roasted mushrooms, sweet potato casserole with molasses streusel and candied pecans, or roasted winter vegetables.
Our carving station serves you hardwood smoked prime rib with au jus and horseradish cream, as well as Joyce Farms free range turkey with giblet gravy and cranberry sauce.
Best of Breakfast
Make the morning right with a sweet and savory selection of breakfast favorites. Enjoy tasty made-to-order omelets, waffles, and buttermilk pancakes served with maple syrup and a side of cherry-smoked bacon. Choose from a variety of fluffy baked breakfast goods.
We’re also serving an assortment of bagels including plain, everything, and cinnamon raisin.
Decadent Desserts
End your Christmas meal with some of the finest desserts Café Osceola has to offer. Taste the rich flavors of our red velvet Bundt cake and dark chocolate mousse cake, or try unique tastes of chocolate meringue cheesecake and gingerbread bûche de Noël. Enjoy our abundance of mini pastries and assortment of desserts, each as unique as snowflakes.
Christmas Buffet Pricing
Spend the day dining to your heart’s content at $89.95 per adult. Children ages 4 to 11 dine for $37.95, and kids 3 and younger eat for free. Guests over 21 can enjoy unlimited champagne and mimosas as well. Join us Christmas Day at Café Osceola from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and make this holiday a memorable one.
Christmas Dinner at A Land Remembered
After a morning spent unwrapping presents and treasuring the people you love, come spend the evening dining on the finest tastes A Land Remembered has to offer. Indulge in our elegant three-course prix fixe menu and see how we turn holiday flavors into exquisite dishes.
First Course
Let the warmth of a rich crab bisque with crème fraiche fascinate your taste buds, or savor the flavors of our Emma’s Creekside Farm beet salad made with beets grown in our onsite garden, tart goat feta, sweet and crunchy candied walnuts, and dressed with aged balsamic and chive oil.
Second Course
Enjoy a full plate of HertaBerkSchwein Farms porchetta with a local corn puree and polenta, or take on a 10 oz. filet mignon served with creamy whipped potato, garden vegetables, bone marrow butter, and a Bordelaise sauce.
Third Course
Finish this fine dining experience with a rich red velvet cheesecake bar made of a festively colorful red velvet brownie, creamy cheesecake mousse, and topped with white chocolate whipped ganache and a candied spiced pecan biscuit.
Dinner takes place Christmas Day from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at $85.95 per adult and $37.95 for children ages 4 to 11. Kids 3 and younger dine for free. Guests can enjoy complimentary self and valet parking upon arrival.
New Year’s Eve Buffet at Café Osceola
Tempting Starters
Welcome the New Year with the fanciest flavors you can find at Rosen Shingle Creek.
Join us at Café Osceola on New Year’s Eve and kick off this celebration with some of our satisfying appetizers. Sip on a rich lobster bisque with sherry wine and crème fraiche or a hearty white bean soup with smoked ham hock. We also offer a bevy of market salads to dine on and market displays to snack from.
Our market displays will offer plenty of international and domestic cheeses, as well as an antipasto and bruschetta bar, to tease your taste buds before diving into our main courses.
Small Plates
When you aren’t quite ready for generous entrée portions and want something capable of holding off the hunger until then, our small plates have you covered.
Delicacies like paella Valencia and plates of pasta are more filling than finger foods but won’t distract from the main courses. Dine on finds from our chef-attended make-your-own pasta station, Banrai Sushi, and our seafood station.
Filling Entrées & Carvings
Find entrées galore and enjoy some of the finest carvings Café Osceola has to offer this New Year’s Eve. From heavenly southern style chicken pot pie with a flaky buttermilk biscuit topping to Korean short ribs with grilled scallions, our holiday dishes aim to make your mouth water.
Pair these delicious entrées with delectable sides like buttermilk mac and cheese with Cheshire bacon and salty pecorino, grilled asparagus and roasted plum tomatoes with citrus vinaigrette, cheddar mashed potatoes, and a selection of breads and rolls.
Divine Desserts
Wrap up this celebratory journey to flavor town by getting a taste of our many dessert selections. Whether you’re a cake lover or you fancy a sugary tart, there are bountiful sweets to choose from at our buffet.
New Year’s Eve Buffet Pricing
Feast upon meals fit for a king this New Year’s Eve at $79.95 per adult. Children ages 4 to 11 eat for $34.95, and kids 3 and under dine for free. Guests over 21 are welcomed to unlimited champagne to make the celebration even more memorable.
New Year’s Eve Dinner at A Land Remembered
Just as the name suggests, you’ll remember how spectacular your New Year’s Eve dinner was when you dine at A Land Remembered. Our luxurious prix fixe four-course menu brings you rare, exceptional tastes that are sure to evoke excitement and leave you feeling merry and satisfied.
First Course
Embark on your fulfilling dining journey by choosing poached lobster tail with creamy risotto, oven roasted tomato puree, and garden gremolata, or Wagyu beef tartare served with bone marrow, zesty horseradish crumbs, quail egg, and spicy mustard greens.
Second Course
Amuse your palate with either an enticing New England clam chowder with delicious house bacon, or a fresh radicchio salad with roasted corn, toasted pine nuts, and stracciatella, tossed in a garden herb vinaigrette.
Third Course
Choose from three of our refined entrées and introduce your appetite to one-of-a-kind flavors from our renowned chefs.
Try the deconstructed half duck with a confit leg quarter and pastrami cured duck breast served with whipped potato and duck jus, or the seared Alaskan halibut with house bacon-wrapped asparagus, forbidden rice, and lemon and caper sauce.
Steak lovers can indulge in a 16 oz. New York Strip with potato galette, smoked eggplant puree, and a divine bone marrow Bordelaise.
Fourth Course
Top off this enchanting dining experience with our delectable chocolate lava cake topped with toasted meringue, a bright and citrusy grapefruit compote, and brown sugar vanilla ice cream.
Come dine on New Year’s Eve from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at $99.95 per adult and enjoy complimentary self and valet parking upon arrival.
New Year’s Eve Dinner at Cala Bella
Cala Bella is cooking up a blend of modern and traditional Italian flavors for a New Year’s Eve dining experience worthy of welcoming a new year.
First Course
Begin your meal with your choice of Cedar Key clams served with garden herbs, white wine sauce, and house focaccia to soak up every last morsel, or a harvest-inspired stracciatella with roasted Seminole pumpkin, Okinawa spinach, roasted pumpkin seeds, and a golden raisin vinaigrette.
Second Course
Once your appetite has been piqued, it’s time to dive into the second course. Enjoy Agnolotti al Brasato, a stuffed pasta with braised beef, brown butter and sage, and Piedmont white truffles, or Linguini Cacio e Pepe with a poached egg, sprinkled with 24-month aged Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
Third Course
For your entrée, you have the option of choosing between three incredible dishes.
The first is grass-fed lamb with Taleggio Yukon gold potato, summer squash, a refreshing mint gremolata, and a savory lamb jus.
Your second choice is a Lake Meadows Farm half chicken, sourced from a local farm and served with local sweet potato puree, golden carrots and Seminole pumpkin, and a rich chicken brodo.
The last entrée option of the evening is red snapper served with fresh garden greens, roasted corn risotto, Calabrian chili butter, and a refreshing baby celery and radish salad.
Dessert
Last but never least is dessert. Enjoy a delectable Grand Marnier cake with a creamy espresso mousse and a vanilla bean ganache Yule log for the perfect end to a celebratory meal.
The New Year’s Eve dinner at Cala Bella is $89.95 per person. Enjoy complimentary self and valet parking when you come for dinner anytime between 5:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from Rosen Shingle Creek
From season’s greetings to celebratory dinners, Rosen Shingle Creek continues to bring you the happiest of holidays. You can dine and live like royalty when you choose to stay at our hotel.
We offer high-class amenities with top-of-the-line comfort at competitive rates. Our convenient location on Universal Boulevard also puts you at the forefront of Orlando’s prime entertainment, so you can make the most of your holiday vacation within minutes of your hotel.
