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.