Festive at Newmark: Christmas Menus 2025

After an eventful year, you deserve a Christmas Eve dinner to top all dinners. What better way to do that than with Newmark Hotels & Reserves? From dramatic delicacies to local favourites with a sophisticated twist, here are the just-released menus from our leading hospitality destinations to help you celebrate in style.

Terrarium

As always, Terrarium at the Queen Victoria Hotel awakens the taste buds with understated elegance and a harvest-to-table approach. The menu this year is simple yet hearty and oh-so-satisfactory.

Whet your appetite with briyani-spiced aubergine starters, slow-roasted lamb shoulder dumplings, or ham hock and pickle terrine. The main course is set to impress with crown-roasted free-range chicken, pork belly, or a textured cauliflower dish, accompanied by imaginative sides such as red pepper and cashew nut puree. It’s everything you love, just better.

Kashew

The Catalyst Hotel’s Kashew restaurant offers an enticing option for Christmas 2025 at just R675 per person, accompanied by welcome drinks on arrival. Get ready for festive favourites like rolled turkey, roast potatoes, and Christmas cake with eggnog custard, alongside South African cuisine, such as stuffed snoek, beef curry, and honey-glazed gammon.

Petit fours and sticky toffee pudding also make a menu appearance, so be sure to shortlist Kashew as one of your Christmas Eve dining destinations in Johannesburg for a 2025 showstopper.

GINJA

Expect nothing short of a glamorous feast by the water’s edge at GINJA, set elegantly at the Victoria & Alfred Hotel. Join us for a Christmas Day lunch and dinner buffet that creates holiday memories.

This year’s menu has something for everyone, indulging bread lovers with a stunning selection from brioche to sourdough, cheese sticks, and infused butters. Dive into salad platters and cold cuts that satisfy every taste, complemented by a hot carvery featuring roasted turkey, tandoori chicken, beef prime rib, and more. Desserts range from festive mince pies to white chocolate mousse, and the cheese display takes you on a journey of taste and flavour.

BABOHI

Spending Christmas on safari? Newmark Hotels & Reserves has you covered, even in the mystical corners of the African bush. BABOHI, our adults-only luxury safari lodge, has prepared a Christmas dinner menu to revive the adventurer in you.

Enjoy a romantic dinner under the stars with a plated menu that begins with mouthwatering salad, marinated soya prawns, or slow-roasted onion soup and bruschetta. For the main course, enjoy grilled springbok loin, pork belly, turkey or wild mushrooms. Round it off with Black Forest trifle, ginger pudding, or a curated festive cheese board.

Chuini

Chuini Zanzibar Beach Lodge offers sophisticated coastal dining where international cuisine is expertly enhanced by a distinctive dash of Zanzibar spice and flavour. The restaurant's speciality is ultra-fresh seafood and fish caught daily from the Indian Ocean.

Their special Christmas menu is a refined, four-course affair featuring dishes like snapper crudo, rich braised lamb ribs, and poached salmon. Then, your extravagant dinner finishes with a sweet choice between dates and almond pie or a decadent Black Forest trifle cheesecake.

Mystik

Perched in the beautiful Mont Choisy, Mauritius, Mystik promises an evening of true elegance with a sophisticated Christmas Eve menu designed for indulgence. The experience begins with a delicate amuse-bouche of smoked salmon tartare, setting a high standard for the courses to follow.

Guests are then treated to a choice between the holiday luxury of Slow-Roasted Beef Tenderloin – perfectly paired with truffle mashed potatoes – or a beautifully executed Pan-Seared Seabass. And just like that, the culinary journey comes to an elaborate end with a magnificent dessert buffet.

Shoreditch

For a cosmopolitan culinary experience, Shoreditch at the Winchester Hotel offers a contemporary feast designed to delight adventurous palates. Priced at R995 per person, the menu starts with unique choices like Salmon Gravlax with preserved figs or spicy Beef Cheek Dolma.

For mains, guests can choose between a succulent Dirty Rib Eye with bone marrow butter, Fire-Roasted Peri Peri Chicken, or a Sweet Corn Risotto, all complemented by sides like the Vegetable Tagine and Truffle-Parmesan Fries.

The extravagant meal concludes with a choice between a rich chocolate mousse with extra-virgin olive oil ice cream or a bright lemon sabayon tart.

Motswari

Motswari offers bushveld fine dining where the authentic Timbavati wilderness meets refined South African cuisine. Meals are a luxurious celebration of local flavours, often served under the stars in a traditional boma setting.

The Christmas menu is an exquisite festive display, starting with an impala carpaccio and featuring a spiced butternut velouté amuse-bouche. The main course offers a choice of roast venison loin or a grilled Wellington, all leading to a decadent Malva pudding finale, complete with brandy ice cream and cinnamon dust.

Book your spot now with Newmark Hotels & Reserves for a Christmas Eve dinner to remember.

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