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Festive holiday offerings

- Photos by PEPPER TEEHANKEE on a Leica C Digital Camera (Follow me on Instagram @pepperteeh­ankee.)

Well-loved Bizu traditiona­lly celebrates the Christmas season through its holiday offerings. Recently, the restaurant launched its new bistro menu together with the “Land of Sweets: Bizu Christmas Collection 2017,” inspired by the ballet The Nutcracker.

The restaurant’s new dishes include the delicious lobster roll, with fresh lobster flown from Maine daily; clam vongole, truffle

lengua, chicken with lemon and rosemary, and my favorite burrata with berries. And still on its menu are crowd favorites like the 10-hour roast beef, Salmon Pommery and Eggs Benedict.

Bizu also teamed up with designer Medilen Singh for its stores’ colorful Christmas decoration and packaging.

Chef Alexander Tanco said, “The new menu showcases the exceptiona­l range of authentic and internatio­nal cuisine we offer at Bizu. The highlight of this menu is not only its innovative use of great and fresh flavors, but also the growing trends and demands of our customers.”

The Christmas collection includes cakes, macarons de Paris, roasts, terrines, savory spreads, chocolate truffles, revel bars, cookies, tarts and breads. The limited-edition cakes available only this Christmas are Chocolate Caramel, Strawberry Rose and Lemon Walnut.

The restaurant also offers food for the gods, Pachiza (made with Grand Cru Pachiza 70-percent Peruvian Dark Chocolate), Parmesan ensaymada and, of course, the signature 10-hour roast beef, whole roast turkey and the newest addition, the roast lamb ham. (Orders may be placed through any branch of Bizu Patisserie or visit BizuChrist­mas.com and Facebook.com/ILoveBizu to view the online catalog.) Merry Christmas to everyone!

 ??  ?? Ten-hour roasted beef belly.
Ten-hour roasted beef belly.
 ??  ?? Warm caramelize­d apples with brie.
Warm caramelize­d apples with brie.
 ??  ?? Caviar and smoked salmon terrine.
Caviar and smoked salmon terrine.
 ??  ?? Burrata with berries.
Burrata with berries.
 ??  ?? Caramelize­d pear ravioli with shrimp.
Caramelize­d pear ravioli with shrimp.
 ??  ?? Colorful Bizu macarons.
Colorful Bizu macarons.
 ??  ?? Chrissy, Annie and Aaron Tanco.
Chrissy, Annie and Aaron Tanco.
 ??  ?? Lobster roll.
Lobster roll.
 ??  ?? Halibut en papillote.
Halibut en papillote.
 ??  ?? Chef Alexander Tanco.
Chef Alexander Tanco.

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