Downtown Norfolk Holiday Movie Food & Drink Week
Downtown Norfolk chefs are getting creative and having a lot of fun reimagining iconic food and drinks from your favorite holiday movies and specials this season.
For one week from December 3-10, Downtown Norfolk restaurants will put their own unique spin on recognizable foods, drinks, and memorable scenes from holiday classics for a creative and delicious helping of festive nostalgia.
Participating Restuarants & Featured Movies/Specials
Four Eleven York
411 West York Street
757-963-7000
Four Eleven York's Christmas Cinema Cocktails are inspired by a variety of Christmas movies.
In years past, they’ve been inspired by: Love Actually, Die Hard, The Grinch, Christmas Story, Elf, Nightmare Before Christmas, Gremlins, Home Alone, Polar Express, Family Man, Ernest Saves Christmas and more!
Four Eleven York releases four cocktails a week starting all the way until Christmas! Their beverage director watches the movie and creates a drink based on a quote or a scene. Stay tuned to their social media for the final menu.
Grace O'Malley's Irish Pub & Restaurant
211 Granby St
757-333-3330
Movie: A Christmas Story
Food + Drink: You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out Shooter and Triple Dog Dare Cheesecake
Classic Scene: Ralphie: Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!
Movie: Christmas Vacation
Food + Drink: The Griswald Christmas Mule and Clark’s Hap-Hap-Happiest Christmas Turkey Soup
Classic Scene: Clark Griswold: This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here!
Movie: Home Alone
Food + Drink: Wet Bandit Wings and Booby Trapped Chicken Breast Wrap
Classic Scene: Marv: Harry, it's our calling card! All the great ones leave their marks.
Movie: Elf
Food + Drink: South Pole Elf Crush drink special and Buddy’s Maple Syrup Flounder
Classic Scene: Emily: You like sugar, huh?
Buddy: Is there sugar in syrup?
Emily: Yes.
Buddy: Then YES!
S’mores Amore
208 East Main Street (inside Selden Market)
757-386-0303
Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Food + Drink: The Griswold, a spiked eggnog s'mores blondie made with Southern Comfort liquor (21 and up only)
Classic Scene: Clark Griswold to Cousin Eddie: Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
Movie: Bad Santa
Food + Drink: The Lump of Coal, a Chocolate Hazelnut S'mores Brownie
Festive Fun: Holiday decor up through the season!
Movie: A Christmas Story
Food + Drink: You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, a Mint Chocolate S'mores Brownie
Classic Scene: Ralphie : No, no! I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
Santa Claus : You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
The Stockpot Norfolk
215 East Plume St
757-227-3337
Movie: Die Hard
Food + Drink: Hot Dogs! Choose from: Pushcart NY Dog with pushcart onion sauce, sauerkraut, and mustard; LA Dog wrapped in bacon with grilled onion, pepper, jalapeno, ketchup, mustard, and sour cream; or Bavarian Dog in a pretzel bun with sauerkraut, mustard, and crispy onion.
Festive Fun: Keep an eye out for the fun Die Hard themed pastries!
Voila! Cuisine Internationale
509 Botetourt Street
757-640-0343
Tue-Sat, 5pm-9pm
Movie: A Christmas Story
Food + Drink: OH FUUUUUUDGE! Voila is serving up their delicious Ovaltini!
Festive Fun: Step into Voila and be transported to better times with authentic Christmas story décor including the real Red Rider BB gun, the classic Leg Lamp, and more.
Miracle on Waterside Drive
333 Waterside Drive
757-426-7433
Movie: Elf
Food + Drink: Buddy's Popcorn, filled with all of the sugary things Buddy the Elf loves: melted white chocolate, Christmas sprinkles, M&Ms, crushed pretzels, and white cake mix, shaped into a beautifully delicious tree.
Classic Scene: Emily: You like sugar, huh?
Buddy: Is there sugar in syrup?
Emily: Yes.
Buddy: Then YES!
Movie: Die Hard
Food + Drink: The Yippee Ki Yay Mother F***r! cocktail with Barbados rum, rhum agricole, Trinidad overproof rum, ube & coconut orgeat, acid-adjusted pineapple juice
Classic Scene: We don't have to tell you — you remember the scene!