I'm working on it.
I'm gathering up:
1) a list of restaurants that are featuring special Christmas Eve menus and events. This photograph, from 2002, shows some of the dishes from Aldo's feast of the seven fishes. I went one year, and Donatella Versace was there. (I love Maya Rudolph.)
2) a list of restaurants that are open on Christmas Day
3) a round-up of restaurants that are taking a vacation in between Christmas and New Years Day -- I know that Iggies is closing on New Year's Eve and re-opening on January 2nd. And that Jack's Bistro is closing from January 1st through the 14th.
You can help by sending me reliable, first-hand information about all this stuff. Email me richard.gorelick@baltsun.com
Then, we'll move on to New Years Eve itself -- yesterday, I heard that the B&O Brasserie is already booked (I'll confirm that), so it's clearly not too early to book your restaurant.
I'll try to have the Christmas-related up sometime tomorrow.
Baltimore Sun photo/Barbara Haddock Taylor