Christmas gift hampers

The patisserie at the Grand Hyatt Beijing prepares a variety of deluxe chocolates made with authentic imported ingredients. Christmas stollen, yule logs, gingerbread, macaroons, chocolates and cookies are all available at this one-stop gourmet's station. There are also premium wines, champagnes, vintage Port and elegantly designed gift hampers. 8518-1234 ext 6362

Italian style Christmas

Newly opened Italian restaurant Tavola prepares a candlelight Italian set dinner on Christmas Eve, with a cup of wine, appetizer, a small gift, cakes and Christmas music. 1381-0902-261

Alaskan seafood

The Monsoon Restaurant at InterContinental Beijing, along with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, brings a variety of Alaskan seafood, featuring salmon, cod, crab, scallop and prawn, until Dec 30. One of the earliest in the world to apply sustainable fishery management systems, Alaska seafood provides unrivaled texture and superior flavor. 5852-5888

Top-notch festive dinner

Newly opened restaurant Agua and Shiro Matsu, in the Legation Quarter, 23 Qianmen Dongdajie, prepares a top-level festive set dinner, available until Spring Festival, at 8,888 yuan. The meal consists of seven courses, with either Japanese and Spanish foods, accompanied by the restaurant's top quality wines and champagne. The foods are prepared with world-class materials, by world top chefs Jordi Valles and Yakuwa Kazuaki. 6559-6266

A Christmas in Paris

FAUCHON French store brings Christmas goodies to Beijing, from black tea with caramel, maraschino and sweet orange, to chocolate Christmas ornaments, boxes of sweet biscuits, and a new recipe of Christmas preserve or whole duck foie gras. 6533-1185 ext 1206

(China Daily December 16, 2008)