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Danfords Hotel & Marina Welcomes Santa and Charles Dickens for Annual Dickens Brunch

Danfords Hotel & Marina presents its Annual Dickens’ Brunch, a festive Sunday brunch buffet featuring Santa Claus during Port Jefferson’s Dickens Festival, on Sunday, December 4.  The celebration will include Christmas carols, story telling and a special visit from Santa Claus. Brunch includes complimentary mimosas, and Bloody Marys.  Seatings will be at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.  The cost is $34.95 for adults, $19.95 for children under 12, and free for children under age 4, plus tax and gratuity. Dinner service will start at 5:30 p.m.  

The brunch menu is as follows:

Salads

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*Caesar salad

*Roasted fall vegetable salad

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*Roasted loin of rabbit salad, white truffle, hazelnut vinaigrette

*Winter greens, poached pear and goat cheese

*Cured duck with winter citrus

 

Beef Wellington Carving Station

*Hollandaise, port wine sauce and Yorkshire pudding

 

International Cheese Display

*Featuring Stilton, English cheddar, sage derby and creamy double Gloucester finger sandwiches

 

English Orchard Harvest

(Whole Fruit)

*Apples

*Pears

*Walnuts

*Harvest treats

 

Ice Carving Display

*Oysters

*Shrimp

*Clams

*Smoked Salmon

*Cocktail sauce, tartar sauce, sauce Louis, mignonette

 

Brunch

*French toast with caramelized bananas, white chocolate, walnuts and maple syrup

*Scrambled eggs and crab tater tots

*Cod, fall succotash, brown butter

*Eggs Norwegian (Benedict with smoked salmon) with tomato hollandaise sauce

*Blackened pork chop with cherries, cipolin and wild rice pilaf

*Mashed potatoes and roasted fall vegetables with green beans

 

Soup

*Celery root apple soup with smoked bacon

 

Dessert

*Hot apple cranberry cobbler

*Profiteroles

*Caramel rice pudding

*Pumpkin bars

*Hot chocolate brownie

*Chocolate mouse domes

*Crème Brule

*Pumpkin sugar cookies

*Chocolate chip cookies

*Oatmeal cookies

*Macadamia white chocolate chip cookies

*Scones and fruit preserves

*Sliced fruit

 

Holidays at Danfords Hotel & Marina: Every holiday season, the resort resembles a winter wonderland with Christmas trees and decorations including lights, garland and roping.  The new WAVE Seafood Kitchen boasts its own Christmas tree while the lobby displays a Dickens Village and a 20-foot tree.  As a part of Port Jefferson’s annual Charles Dickens Festival, Danfords Hotel & Marina welcomes actors and choirs in period attire as they walk through the hotel and restaurant to greet guests and sing Christmas Carols.

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