Palm Springs Restaurants Open on Christmas

By Nicholas Katers

Palm Springs Restaurants Open on Christmas

The warm breezes and abundant golf courses of Palm Springs lure travelers during the holiday season. As the temperature sinks elsewhere in the United States, the courses and resorts of Palm Springs fill quickly. This reliable source of business encourages restaurants throughout Palm Springs to keep their doors open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Vacationers enjoy Christmas meals, decorations and time with family at the following Palm Springs restaurants.

Johannes Restaurant

Johannes Restaurant serves Austrian fare minutes south of the Historic Tennis Club in Palm Springs. Every diner can start a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meal with grilled stuff quail and endive salad from the appetizer menu. Johannes Restaurant offers entrees such as eight-ounce grass fed Australian tenderloin steaks and seared Maine scallops at Christmas dinner. The dessert menu at Johannes contains a two-cheese plate, winter bread pudding and a dark chocolate mousse that would look at home in Vienna.

Johannes Restaurant
196 S. Indian Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, California 92262
(760) 778-0017
www.johannesrestaurants.com/

Magie Ristorante Italiano

Franco Spinelli's Magie Ristorante Italiano serves Christmas Eve and Christmas Day meals two blocks from Odonnell Golf Club. Guests start with appetizers such as bruschetta, antipasto and fried calamari plates. The chicken and veal section of Magie's menu offers the choice of seven sauces including white wine lemon sauce and Marsala wine sauce. Traditionalists interested in Italian pasta entrees order penne with sausage, eggplant parmigiana and capellini scampi. Magie Ristorante Italiano prepares fresh salmon, ossobucco and Australian rack of lamb for guests looking for some protein.

Magie Ristorante Italiano
333 N. Palm Canyon Drive
Suite 107
Palm Springs, California 92262
(760) 322-1234
www.palmsprings.com/dine/magie/index.html

Pomme Frite

Golfers looking for French and Belgian dishes in Palm Springs head northwest of Mesquite Country Club to Pomme Frite. The restaurant keeps Belgian beers like De Koninck, Brugse Zot and Gulden Draak on tap as complements to its dinner menu. Pomme Frite prepares appetizers such as oven baked French onion soup to get diners started. Your Christmas meal at Pomme Frite includes Belgian entrees like a steamer pot of Mediterranean mussels. The dessert menu at Pomme Frite attracts diners with Belgian chocolate mousse and a slice of almond cake.

Pomme Frite
256 S. Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, California 92262
(760) 778-3727
www.pomme-frite.com/

Zin American Bistro

Zin American Bistro offers contemporary European entrees near the Canyon Country Club and Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort. The Chef's Pick Menu is a three-course meal headlined by your choice of Scottish salmon, veal and ricotta meatballs or braised rabbit. The exclamation point of the Chef's Pick Menu is a choice of desserts including Tahitian crème brule and homemade vanilla bean ice cream. Specialties like Prince Edward Island mussels and free range chicken schnitzel show the versatility of Zin American Bistro's menu.

Zin American Bistro
198 S. Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, California 92262
(760) 322-6300
www.zinamericanbistro.com/

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City of Palm Springs, California

About The Author

Nicholas Katers has been a freelance writer since 2006. He teaches American history at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wis. His past works include articles for "CCN Magazine," "The History Teacher" and "The Internationalist" magazine. Katers holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in American history from University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, respectively.